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                                   10283
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 8, 2020
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 Introduced  by M. of A. STERN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Real Property Taxation
 
 AN ACT to amend chapter 311 of the laws of 1920 relating to the  assess-
   ment and collection of taxes in Suffolk county, in relation to author-
   izing  certain  local governments to alter property tax payment sched-
   ules; and providing  for  the  repeal  of  such  provisions  upon  the
   expiration thereof
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision (c) and the closing paragraph of section 13  of
 chapter  311  of  the  laws  of  1920  relating  to  the  assessment and
 collection of taxes in Suffolk county, as amended by chapter 745 of  the
 laws of 1959, are amended to read as follows:
   (c)  Authorization  for [two] INSTALLMENT payments of taxes. Not later
 than June fifteenth in any year, the town board of any town may adopt  a
 resolution, which shall be subject to a permissive referendum as herein-
 after provided; that after December first next succeeding all taxes upon
 real  estate  in  the tax roll shall be due and payable and shall be and
 become liens on the real estate affected thereby, and shall be construed
 as and deemed to be charges thereon on December first of each year,  and
 not earlier, and shall remain such liens until paid.  Provided, however,
 that there shall be no penalty if one-half of all such taxes are paid to
 the  receiver  on  or before the succeeding tenth day of January and the
 second one-half of all such taxes are paid to the receiver on or  before
 the  succeeding  thirty-first  day of May. On all such first one-half of
 taxes upon real estate remaining unpaid on the tenth day of January, one
 per centum of the amount of the said one-half of the tax will be  added,
 and  an  additional  one per centum will be added for each month or part
 thereof thereafter, until the return of the warrant to the county treas-
 urer. The second one-half of the tax on real estate which is due on  the
 preceding first day of December may be paid without penalty on the tenth
 day  of  May  or  at  any time thereafter, until, but not including, the
 succeeding first day of June, providing the first one-half of  such  tax
 shall  have  been  paid  or  shall be paid at the same time. The warrant
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 annexed to the tax roll of any town adopting  such  proposition  and  in
 which  taxes on real estate are payable in installments shall be made to
 conform to the provisions of this subdivision  as  hereby  amended.  Any
 such  resolution of the town board providing for the collection of taxes
 in installments shall not  take  effect  until  thirty  days  after  its
 adoption;  nor  until  approved by the affirmative vote of a majority of
 the qualified electors of such town voting upon a proposition  therefor,
 if  within  thirty  days after its adoption there be filed with the town
 clerk a petition subscribed and  acknowledged  as  provided  in  article
 seven  of the town law with respect to the submission of a referendum on
 petition. If a petition be so filed, a proposition for the  approval  of
 such resolution shall be submitted at a general or special town election
 to  be  held not more than forty days after the filing of such petition.
 Notice of the election shall be given, such election held and the  votes
 canvassed  and  result  certified and returned in the manner provided by
 the town law relating to the submission of questions upon town  proposi-
 tions.  THE  TOWN  BOARD  OF  ANY TOWN WHICH PERMITS PAYMENT OF TAXES IN
 INSTALLMENTS PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION MAY ADOPT A RESOLUTION PROVID-
 ING THAT THE SECOND ONE-HALF OF ALL  SUCH  TAXES  MAY  BE  PAID  TO  THE
 RECEIVER  IN  TWO  INSTALLMENTS,  THE  FIRST ON OR BEFORE THE SUCCEEDING
 THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF MAY, AND THE SECOND ON OR  BEFORE  THE  THIRTY-FIRST
 DAY  OF  AUGUST; PROVIDED THAT SUCH RESOLUTION SHALL NOT BE SUBJECT TO A
 PERMISSIVE REFERENDUM AND SHALL TAKE EFFECT IMMEDIATELY UPON ADOPTION BY
 THE TOWN BOARD AND NO INTEREST OR  PENALTIES  SHALL  BE  ADDED  TO  SUCH
 SECOND  HALF PAYMENTS. ALL OTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION RELATING
 TO THE PAYMENT OF SUCH TAXES SHALL BE APPLICABLE.
   Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special  law  to  the
 contrary,  the  town  board  of any town may, by resolution, provide for
 separating school taxes from all the  remainder  of  the  taxes,  to  be
 collected  pursuant  to  the provisions of the tax warrant, also provide
 for the collection and payment by the taxpayers of  their  school  taxes
 [at  one  time]  IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH IN SUBDIVISION (C) OF THIS
 SECTION, and the collection and payment of  all  the  remainder  of  the
 taxes  to be collected pursuant to the provisions of the tax warrant, at
 another time or times, and further provide that separate bills be issued
 and mailed and receipts given for payment of school taxes as well as for
 all the  remainder  of  the  taxes  to  be  collected  pursuant  to  the
 provisions of the tax warrant.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
 deemed repealed six months after such effective date.