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Senate Bill S7446

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Exempts property owners from tax increases due to the installation of a wind energy generating system

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2013-S7446 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Local Government
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง487, RPT L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S1213
2017-2018: S3407
2019-2020: S3590

2013-S7446 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts property owners from tax increases due to the installation of a wind energy generating system.

2013-S7446 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S7446 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  7446

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              May 15, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  GIPSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government

AN ACT to amend the real property tax  law,  in  relation  to  exempting
  property  owners  from  tax  increases  when  installing a wind energy
  system on or after January 1, 2016

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

  Section  1. Subdivision 5 of section 487 of the real property tax law,
as amended by chapter 366 of the laws of 2010, is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  5. The exemption granted pursuant to this section shall only be appli-
cable to solar or wind energy systems or farm waste energy systems which
are  (a)  existing  or constructed prior to July first, nineteen hundred
eighty-eight [or], (b) constructed subsequent to January first, nineteen
hundred ninety-one and prior to January first, two thousand  fifteen  OR
(C)  WIND ENERGY SYSTEMS CONSTRUCTED ON RESIDENTIAL, COMMERCIAL OR AGRI-
CULTURAL PROPERTY ON OR AFTER JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15138-01-4

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