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                                   8846
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 9, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. ZINERMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Real Property Taxation
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property tax law and the administrative code of
   the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting the sale of tax liens
   by a tax district in a city with a population of one million or more

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 1190 of the  real
 property  tax  law,  as  amended  by chapter 149 of the laws of 2003, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (a) Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, a  tax
 district may enter into a contract to sell some or all of the delinquent
 tax liens held by it to the state of New York municipal bond bank agency
 created  pursuant  to  section  twenty-four  hundred thirty-three of the
 public authorities law, hereinafter referred to as the "bond  bank",  or
 to  one  or  more tax lien entities created by the bond bank pursuant to
 section twenty-four hundred thirty-five-b of the public authorities law.
 A tax district may enter into such a  contract  whether  or  not  it  is
 otherwise subject to the provisions of this article[; provided, however,
 that  any  county, city or town that is not subject to the provisions of
 this article pursuant to subdivision two of section eleven hundred  four
 of  this  article  may  continue to enforce the collection of delinquent
 taxes, including through the sale of tax liens,  pursuant  to  a  county
 charter,  city  charter,  administrative  code or special law]. NOTWITH-
 STANDING ANY PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, NO TAX DISTRICT IN A CITY
 WITH A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE SHALL SELL SOME OR ALL  OF  THE
 TAX LIENS HELD BY IT.
   § 2. Subdivision b of section 11-319 of the administrative code of the
 city  of  New  York  is  amended by adding a new paragraph 15 to read as
 follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   15. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, ON AND AFTER
 THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SUBDIVISION, NO TAX LIEN SHALL BE SOLD PURSU-
 ANT TO THIS CHAPTER.
   §  3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.