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Assembly Bill A3125

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Authorizes municipal corporations to grant partial exemption on real property owned by persons totally and permanently disabled

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2015-A3125 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Real Property Taxation
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง467, RPT L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A4524
2011-2012: A2514
2013-2014: A3196
2017-2018: A7347
2019-2020: A6170
2021-2022: A5592
2023-2024: A4402
2025-2026: A1781

2015-A3125 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that the current real property tax exemption for persons over 65 may also be extended to those persons who are totally and permanently disabled; requires that municipalities shall provide by local law that such exemptions shall be granted to either those 65 years of age or older or to those who are totally and permanently disabled, or to both categories of persons.

2015-A3125 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  3125

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 22, 2015
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the real property  tax  law,  in  relation  to  granting
  partial  exemption  from  real  property  taxation  to persons who are
  totally and permanently disabled

  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 467 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, each of whom is
sixty-five years of age or over, or real property owned by  husband  and
wife  or  by siblings, one of whom is sixty-five years of age or over OR
TOTALLY AND PERMANENTLY DISABLED, 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 fifty-nine-c of this title, shall  be
exempt  from  taxation  by any municipal corporation in which located to
the extent of fifty  per  centum  of  the  assessed  valuation  thereof,
provided the governing board of such municipality, after public hearing,
adopts  a  local  law, ordinance or resolution providing [therefor] THAT
SUCH EXEMPTION SHALL BE GRANTED TO EITHER THOSE SIXTY-FIVE YEARS OF  AGE
OR  OVER, OR TO THOSE TOTALLY AND PERMANENTLY DISABLED, OR TO BOTH CATE-
GORIES. For the purposes of this section, sibling shall mean  a  brother
or  a  sister,  whether  related  through  half  blood,  whole  blood or
adoption.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05749-01-5

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