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Assembly Bill A6642

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Provides that school districts shall adopt a limited tax exemption relating to the tax on real property, to benefit disabled persons of limited income

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2011-A6642 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Real Property Taxation
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง459-c, RPT L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A6266
2013-2014: A4294
2015-2016: A4955
2017-2018: A5924

2011-A6642 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that school districts shall adopt a limited tax exemption relating to the tax on real property which would benefit persons with disabilities and limited income.

2011-A6642 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6642

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 23, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. CURRAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Real Property Taxation

AN  ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to directing all
  school districts to adopt certain exemptions

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

  Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 459-c of the real
property  tax  law,  as  amended  by chapter 348 of the laws of 2007, is
amended to read as follows:
  (a) Real property owned by one or more persons with  disabilities,  or
real  property  owned  by  a  husband, wife, or both, or by siblings, at
least one of whom has a disability, or real property  owned  by  one  or
more  persons, some of whom qualify under this section and the others of
whom qualify under section four hundred sixty-seven of this  title,  and
whose  income,  as hereafter defined, is limited by reason of such disa-
bility, shall be exempt from taxation by any  municipal  corporation  in
which  located  to  the extent of fifty per centum of the assessed valu-
ation thereof as hereinafter  provided.  After  a  public  hearing,  the
governing board of a county, city, town or village may adopt a local law
and  a  school district, other than a school district subject to article
fifty-two of the education law, [may] SHALL adopt a resolution to  grant
the exemption authorized pursuant to this section.
  S  2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to school
years beginning in the year immediately following the year in which this
act shall have become a law.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08512-01-1

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