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Assembly Bill A3841

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Requires that the alternative exemption to which each qualified owner is entitled shall be combined when such property is owned by more than one qualified owner

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2017-A3841 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Veterans
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §458-a, RPT L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A7628
2011-2012: A1551
2013-2014: A5002
2015-2016: A8429
2019-2020: A3221

2017-A3841 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that when property is owned by more than one qualified owner, the exemption to which each such qualified owner is entitled shall be combined.

2017-A3841 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3841
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 30, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ, LAVINE, SCHIMMINGER -- Multi-Sponsored by
   -- M. of A.  COLTON, COOK, CUSICK, WRIGHT -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Veterans' Affairs
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to the  alternate
   real property tax exemption for veterans

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 458-a of the real
 property tax law, as amended by chapter 100 of  the  laws  of  1988,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   (c)  "Qualified owner" means a veteran, the spouse of a veteran or the
 unremarried surviving spouse of a veteran. Where property  is  owned  by
 more  than  one qualified owner, the exemption to which each is entitled
 [may] SHALL be combined. Where a veteran is also the unremarried surviv-
 ing spouse of a veteran, such person may also receive any  exemption  to
 which the deceased spouse was entitled.
   §  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.
                                                            LBD08367-01-7

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