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Assembly Bill A9738

Signed By Governor

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to imposing an additional two percent occupancy tax in the county of Onondaga

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2019-A9738 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7789
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1202-a, Tax L

2019-A9738 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Imposes an additional two percent occupancy tax in the county of Onondaga, raising the overall rate of such tax from five percent to seven percent.

2019-A9738 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9738
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 6, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Ways and Means
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the tax law, in relation to imposing an additional two
   percent occupancy tax in the county of Onondaga
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1. Subdivision 1 of section 1202-a of the tax law, as amended
 by chapter 398 of the laws of 1991, is amended to read as follows:
   (1) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the  contrary,  the
 county of Onondaga is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt and amend
 local  laws  imposing in such county a tax, in addition to any other tax
 authorized and imposed pursuant to this article such as the  legislature
 has or would have the power and authority to impose upon persons occupy-
 ing  hotel or motel rooms in such county. The rates of such tax shall be
 [five] SEVEN percent of the per diem rental rate for each room  provided
 however,  such  tax shall not be applicable to a permanent resident of a
 hotel or motel. For the purposes of this  section  the  term  "permanent
 resident"  shall mean a person occupying any room or rooms in a hotel or
 motel for at least thirty consecutive days.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first day  of  the  month  next
 succeeding 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.
                                                            LBD15161-01-0

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