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                                  1087

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 26, 2009
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Introduced  by  Sen.  OPPENHEIMER -- read twice and ordered printed, and
  when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Investigations  and
  Government Operations

AN  ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to extending the period during
  which the city of White Plains is authorized to impose  an  additional
  one-half  of  one percent and an additional one-quarter of one percent
  rate of sales and compensating use tax

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Clause 3 of subparagraph (ii) of the opening paragraph of
section 1210 of the tax law, as amended by chapter 65  of  the  laws  of
2008, is amended to read as follows:
  (3)  the  city  of  White  Plains  is  hereby  further  authorized and
empowered to adopt and  amend  local  laws,  ordinances  or  resolutions
imposing  such  taxes  at  a  rate which is: (i) one-half of one percent
additional to the three percent rate authorized above in this  paragraph
for such city for the period beginning September first, nineteen hundred
ninety-three and ending August thirty-first, two thousand [nine] ELEVEN;
and  (ii)  an  additional  one-quarter of one percent in addition to the
other rates authorized in this paragraph for such city  for  the  period
beginning  March  first,  two  thousand  eight and ending August thirty-
first, two thousand [nine] ELEVEN;
  S 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (d) of section 1210
of the tax law or any other provision of law, local law, rule  or  regu-
lation  to  the contrary, any local law, ordinance or resolution enacted
or amended pursuant to clause 3 of  subparagraph  (ii)  of  the  opening
paragraph  of  section 1210 of the tax law, as amended by section one of
this act, imposing any additional rate of  tax  in  the  city  of  White
Plains  shall  become  effective  in  accordance  with the provisions of
subdivision (d) of section 1210 of the tax law, except that  the  certi-
fied  copy  of  such  local  law,  ordinance or resolution which must be

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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mailed by registered mail to the commissioner of taxation and finance at
his or her office in Albany must be so mailed at least 30 days prior  to
the  date  on which such local law, ordinance or resolution is to become
effective.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.