NY State Senate Bill 2019-S3590

Senate Bill S3590

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Exempts property owners from tax increases due to the installation of a wind energy generating system

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Feb 11, 2019	referred to local government

2019-S3590 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Local Government
Law Section:: Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §487, RPT L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2013-2014: S7446
2015-2016: S1213
2017-2018: S3407

2019-S3590 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts property owners from tax increases due to the installation of a wind energy generating system.

2019-S3590 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S3590

SPONSOR: PARKER
 
TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the real property tax law, in relation
to exempting property owners from tax increases when installing a wind
energy system on or after January 1, 2021

 
PURPOSE:

Exempts property owners from tax increases due to the installation of a
wind energy generating system

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends subdivision 5 of section 487 of the real property tax
law, as amended by chapter 366 of the laws of 2010, to exempt tax
increases when installing a wind energy system constructed on residen-
tial, commercial, or agricultural property on or after January 1, 2019.

Section 2 provides that this act shall take effect immediately.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

This legislation will modify the Real Property Tax law regarding real
property, which includes a wind energy system. Currently there is a
fifteen-year real property tax exemption for anyone who installs a wind
energy system. These structures provide positive benefits to the envi-
ronment, a reduction in pollution caused by power plants striving to
meet the needs of the local energy demand, reduces the demand of foreign
oil and saves residents money by providing clean free energy.  This
legislation will permanently eliminate the increase to real property
tax, which will provide further incentive for the market of individual
wind energy production and sustainability.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2017/2018: S3407 - Referred to Local Government
2015-16: S.1213A - Amend and Recommit to Local Government
2014: S.7446  - Referred to Local Government

 
LOCAL FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2019-S3590 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3590
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 11, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property tax  law,  in  relation  to  exempting
   property  owners  from  tax  increases  when  installing a wind energy
   system on or after January 1, 2021

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 5 of section 487 of the real property tax law,
 as amended by chapter 325 of the laws of 2018, is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   5. The exemption granted pursuant to this section shall only be appli-
 cable  to  (a) solar or wind energy systems or farm waste energy systems
 which are (i) existing or constructed  prior  to  July  first,  nineteen
 hundred  eighty-eight  or  (ii) constructed subsequent to January first,
 nineteen hundred ninety-one and prior to  January  first,  two  thousand
 twenty-five,  [and]  (b)  micro-hydroelectric  energy systems, fuel cell
 electric generating systems, micro-combined heat  and  power  generating
 equipment  systems, electric energy storage equipment or electric energy
 storage system, or fuel-flexible linear  generator  electric  generating
 system  which  are constructed subsequent to January first, two thousand
 eighteen and prior to January first, two thousand twenty-five,  AND  (C)
 WIND  ENERGY  SYSTEMS CONSTRUCTED ON RESIDENTIAL, COMMERCIAL OR AGRICUL-
 TURAL PROPERTY ON OR AFTER JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-ONE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however that if
 chapter 325 of the laws of 2018 shall not  have  taken  effect  on    or
 before  such  date then section one of this act shall take effect on the
 same date and in the same manner as such chapter of the  laws  of  2018,
 takes effect.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09570-01-9

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