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Assembly Bill A6835

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Exempts veterans from the payment of certain fees relating to corporations

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2017-A6835 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S116
Current Committee:
Assembly Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:
Business Corporation Law
Laws Affected:
Add §104-B, BC L; add §104-B, N-PC L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S5529
2019-2020: A2121, S595
2021-2022: A7317, S1504
2023-2024: A1354, S3306
2025-2026: A6094, S7446

2017-A6835 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts veterans from the payment of certain fees relating to corporations.

2017-A6835 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6835
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 21, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the business corporations law and the not-for-profit
   corporation law, in relation to exempting veterans from the payment of
   certain fees relating to corporations

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  business  corporation law is amended by adding a new
 section 104-B to read as follows:
 § 104-B. VETERAN EXEMPTION FROM FEES.
   (A) AS USED IN THIS SECTION, "VETERAN" MEANS A  MEMBER  OF  THE  ARMED
 FORCES  OF  THE UNITED STATES WHO SERVED THEREIN IN TIME OF WAR, WHO WAS
 HONORABLY DISCHARGED OR RELEASED UNDER HONORABLE CIRCUMSTANCES FROM SUCH
 SERVICE, WHO IS A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED  STATES  OR  AN  ALIEN  LAWFULLY
 ADMITTED FOR PERMANENT RESIDENCE IN THE UNITED STATES AND WHO IS A RESI-
 DENT  OF  THE  STATE  OF  NEW  YORK AT THE TIME OF UNDERTAKING AN ACTION
 SUBJECT TO A FEE PURSUANT TO SECTION ONE HUNDRED FOUR-A OF THIS ARTICLE.
   (B) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, NO  VETERAN  SHALL  BE
 REQUIRED  TO  PAY  THE  FEES  OTHERWISE  REQUIRED BY SECTION ONE HUNDRED
 FOUR-A OF THIS ARTICLE WITHIN FIVE YEARS OF BEING  HONORABLY  DISCHARGED
 OR RELEASED UNDER HONORABLE CIRCUMSTANCES FROM MILITARY SERVICE.
   (C)  STATUS  AS  AN ELIGIBLE VETERAN PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION SHALL BE
 DOCUMENTED PURSUANT TO RULES AND REGULATIONS PROMULGATED BY THE  COMMIS-
 SIONER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
   §  2.  The  not-for-profit  corporation law is amended by adding a new
 section 104-B to read as follows:
 § 104-B. VETERAN EXEMPTION FROM FEES.
   (A) AS USED IN THIS SECTION, "VETERAN" MEANS A  MEMBER  OF  THE  ARMED
 FORCES  OF  THE UNITED STATES WHO SERVED THEREIN IN TIME OF WAR, WHO WAS
 HONORABLY DISCHARGED OR RELEASED UNDER HONORABLE CIRCUMSTANCES FROM SUCH
 SERVICE, WHO IS A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED  STATES  OR  AN  ALIEN  LAWFULLY
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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