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Assembly Bill A8128

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Provides elderly individuals water relief in N.Y. city

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2017-A8128 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6057
Current Committee:
Assembly Cities
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Add §467-aa, RPT L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A247, S2555
2021-2022: A377, S4143
2023-2024: A5668, S3478
2025-2026: S3664

2017-A8128 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that in a city with a population of a million or more, any resident who is an eligible resident sixty-two years of age or older, and who has an income of fifty thousand dollars or less shall be eligible to be exempted from any future increases in water rate fees.

2017-A8128 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8128
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 31, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BRAUNSTEIN  -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Cities
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property tax  law,  in  relation  to  providing
   certain  elderly individuals with an exemption from increases in water
   rates
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  real  property  tax  law  is amended by adding a new
 section 467-aa to read as follows:
   § 467-AA. WATER RATE FREEZE IN A CITY WITH A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION
 OR MORE. 1. DEFINITIONS.  AS USED IN THIS SECTION:
   (A) "QUALIFIED RESIDENT" MEANS A PERSON  WHO  IS  AT  LEAST  SIXTY-TWO
 YEARS  OF  AGE  AND  HAS HAD A TOTAL HOUSEHOLD INCOME OF LESS THAN FIFTY
 THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR TWO CONSECUTIVE INCOME TAX YEARS BEGINNING  IN  TWO
 THOUSAND  FIFTEEN,  AS  VERIFIED  BY  THE  NEW  YORK  CITY DEPARTMENT OF
 FINANCE;
   (B) "EXEMPTION" MEANS THE EXEMPTION TO  FUTURE  WATER  RATE  INCREASES
 PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION; AND
   (C)  "PRIMARY  DOMICILE"  MEANS  REAL  PROPERTY  OWNED  BY ONE OR MORE
 PERSONS, EACH OF WHOM IS SIXTY-FIVE YEARS OF AGE OR OVER, OR REAL  PROP-
 ERTY OWNED BY HUSBAND AND WIFE OR BY SIBLINGS, ONE OF WHOM IS SIXTY-FIVE
 YEARS  OF  AGE  OR  OVER, 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. FOR THE PURPOSES
 OF THIS SECTION, SIBLING SHALL MEAN  A  BROTHER  OR  A  SISTER,  WHETHER
 RELATED THROUGH HALF BLOOD, WHOLE BLOOD OR ADOPTION.
   2.  EXEMPTION. A QUALIFIED RESIDENT OF A CITY WITH A POPULATION OF ONE
 MILLION OR MORE SHALL BE ELIGIBLE FOR AN EXEMPTION TO ANY  FUTURE  WATER
 RATE  INCREASES  AT  THE  PRIMARY DWELLING OF SUCH INDIVIDUAL; PROVIDED,
 HOWEVER, THAT NO INDIVIDUAL SHALL BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE EXEMPTION AT  MORE
 THAN ONE DWELLING UNIT.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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