Assembly Bill A10738

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to authorizing the city of Albany to add unpaid housing code violation penalties, costs and fines to such city's annual tax levy

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A10738 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Real Property Taxation
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Add §901-a, RPT L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A3128
2023-2024: A3957

2019-A10738 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the city of Albany to add unpaid housing code violation penalties, costs and fines to such city's annual tax levy.

2019-A10738 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10738
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               July 8, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Fahy) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Real Property Taxation
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in  relation  to  authorizing
   the  city  of  Albany  to add unpaid housing code violation penalties,
   costs and fines to such city's annual tax levy

   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 901-a to read as follows:
   § 901-A. COLLECTION OF UNPAID HOUSING CODE VIOLATION PENALTIES IN  THE
 CITY  OF ALBANY; LEVY. 1. AUTHORIZATION. IN ADDITION TO AND NOT IN LIMI-
 TATION OF ANY POWER OTHERWISE GRANTED BY LAW,  THE  CITY  OF  ALBANY  IS
 HEREBY  AUTHORIZED TO COLLECT ANY UNPAID HOUSING, BUILDING AND FIRE CODE
 VIOLATION PENALTIES, COSTS AND FINES THROUGH  PLACEMENT  BY  THE  CITY'S
 TREASURER  ON  THE  CITY'S  ANNUAL  TAX  LEVY  IN  ACCORDANCE  WITH  THE
 PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION.
   2. ELIGIBILITY. IN ORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR PLACEMENT ON THE  CITY  OF
 ALBANY'S ANNUAL TAX LEVY SUCH UNPAID CODE VIOLATION PENALTIES, COSTS AND
 FINES  SHALL  HAVE  BEEN ADJUDICATED AND IMPOSED THROUGH A JUDGMENT IN A
 COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION ON AN OWNER OF REAL PROPERTY WITHIN  THE
 CITY AND RECORDED BY THE COUNTY CLERK, AS CERTIFIED BY THE CITY'S CORPO-
 RATION  COUNSEL  AND  HAVE  REMAINED UNPAID FOR ONE YEAR AFTER THE FINAL
 ADJUDICATION AND EXHAUSTION OF ALL APPEALS RELATING TO THE IMPOSITION OF
 THE FINES FOR A CODE VIOLATION PRECEDING THE PLACEMENT ON THE CITY'S TAX
 LEVY.
   3. MINIMUM AMOUNT OWED. TO QUALIFY FOR PLACEMENT ON THE TAX  LEVY  THE
 AMOUNT  OWED FOR UNPAID CODE VIOLATIONS MUST BE AT LEAST FIVE PERCENT OF
 THE AMOUNT OF THE TAX ASSESSED VALUE OF THE PROPERTY.
   4. LEVY. SUCH CODE VIOLATION PENALTY, COST OR FINE AS SET FORTH  IN  A
 COPY  OF  THE JUDGMENT CERTIFIED BY THE CORPORATION COUNSEL SHALL BE SET
 DOWN IN THE ANNUAL TAX LEVY UNDER  THE  HEADING  UNCOLLECTED  FINES  AND
 PENALTIES  AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS SECTION SHALL BE LEVIED, ENFORCED
 AND COLLECTED IN THE SAME MANNER, BY THE SAME PROCEEDINGS, AT  THE  SAME
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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