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Jan 08, 2020 |
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Mar 14, 2019 |
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Assembly Bill A6626
2019-2020 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
MCDONALD
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2019-A6626 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Assembly Cities
- Law Section:
- General City Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §20-b, Gen City L; amd §5-530, Vil L
- Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
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A8295
2019-A6626 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6626 2019-2020 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y March 14, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Cities AN ACT to amend the general city law and the village law, in relation to prohibiting the imposition of tax by a city or village on certain gas or electric transactions that pass through the boundaries of a taxing jurisdiction but do not serve residential or commercial customers within such boundaries THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 20-b of the general city law, as amended by chapter 310 of the laws of 1962 and the opening paragraph as amended by chapter 287 of the laws of 1979, is amended to read as follows: § 20-b. Cities authorized to impose taxes on utilities. 1. Notwith- standing any other provisions of law to the contrary, any city of this state, acting through its local legislative body, is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt and amend local laws imposing in any such city a tax such as was imposed by section one hundred eighty-six-a of the tax law, in effect on January first, nineteen hundred fifty-nine, except that the rate thereof shall not exceed one per centum of gross income or of gross operating income, as the case may be, and may make provision for the collection thereof by the chief fiscal officer of such city; provided, however, that the rate of such tax imposed by the cities of Rochester, Buffalo and Yonkers shall not exceed three per centum of gross income or gross operating income, as the case may be; and provided further that nothing herein contained shall be construed so as to prevent any city from adopting local laws exempting from such tax omni- bus corporations subject to the supervision of the state department of public service [under article three-a of the public service law]. A tax imposed pursuant to this section shall have application only within the territorial limits of any such city, and shall be in addition to any and all other taxes. This section shall not authorize the imposition of a EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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