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Assembly Bill A10207

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires a collecting officer of taxes to accept payments of tax, including any interest due thereon, rounded to the nearest five cent denomination

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2025-A10207 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9541
Current Committee:
Senate Local Government
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §924, RPT L

2025-A10207 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires a collecting officer of taxes to accept payments of tax, including any interest due thereon, rounded to the nearest five cent denomination for taxpayers seeking to pay therefor with legal tender.

2025-A10207 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10207
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 12, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. KAY -- read once and referred to the Committee on
   Real Property Taxation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the real property tax law, in relation to requiring a
   collecting officer of taxes to accept payments of tax,  including  any
   interest due thereon, rounded to the nearest five cent denomination
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 924 of the real property  tax  law  is  amended  by
 adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
   4.  (A)  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  PROVISION  OF  LAW TO THE CONTRARY, THE
 COLLECTING OFFICER SHALL ACCEPT AS PAYMENT OF TAXES AND INTEREST  PURSU-
 ANT  TO THIS SECTION AN AMOUNT THAT IS ROUNDED UP OR DOWN TO THE NEAREST
 FIVE CENTS AS FOLLOWS:
   (I) WHERE THE AMOUNT OF TAX, INCLUDING ANY INTEREST DUE THEREON,  ENDS
 IN  ONE CENT, TWO CENTS, SIX CENTS, OR SEVEN CENTS, SUCH AMOUNT SHALL BE
 ROUNDED DOWN TO THE NEAREST AMOUNT DIVISIBLE BY FIVE FOR TAXPAYERS SEEK-
 ING TO PAY THEREFOR WITH LEGAL TENDER.
   (II) WHERE THE AMOUNT OF TAX, INCLUDING ANY INTEREST DUE THEREON, ENDS
 IN THREE CENTS, FOUR CENTS, EIGHT CENTS, OR NINE CENTS SUCH AMOUNT SHALL
 BE ROUNDED UP TO THE NEAREST AMOUNT  DIVISIBLE  BY  FIVE  FOR  TAXPAYERS
 SEEKING TO PAY THEREFOR WITH LEGAL TENDER.
   (B)  AS  USED  IN THIS SUBDIVISION, THE TERM "LEGAL TENDER" SHALL MEAN
 ALL COINS AND CURRENCIES OF THE UNITED STATES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14550-01-6

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