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Assembly Bill A4955

2015-2016 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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2015-A4955 (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
2011-2012: A6642
2013-2014: A4294
2017-2018: A5924

2015-A4955 (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.

2015-A4955 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  4955

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 9, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. CURRAN, FINCH, RAIA -- 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.
                                                           LBD07960-01-5

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