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Senate Bill S1735

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to exemptions granted for alterations or rehabilitation

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2025-S1735 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Local Government
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §444-a, RPT L

2025-S1735 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to exemptions granted for alterations or rehabilitation.

2025-S1735 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1735 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1735
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 13, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  FAHY  --  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  exemptions
   granted for alterations or rehabilitation
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 444-a of the real
 property tax law, as added by chapter  183  of  the  laws  of  1997,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   (b)  No  such exemption shall be granted for such alterations or reha-
 bilitation unless:
   (i) Such property has been designated as a landmark, or is a  property
 that  contributes to the character of an historic district, created by a
 local law passed pursuant to section ninety-six-a or one  hundred  nine-
 teen-dd of the general municipal law;
   (ii) [Alterations or rehabilitation must be made for means of historic
 preservation;
   (iii)  Such  alterations  or  rehabilitation of historic property meet
 guidelines and review standards in the local preservation law;
   (iv) Such alterations  or  rehabilitation  of  historic  property  are
 approved  by  the local preservation commission prior to commencement of
 work;
   (v)] Alterations or rehabilitation are  commenced  subsequent  to  the
 effective  date  of the local law or resolution adopted pursuant to this
 section[.];
   (III) ANY ALTERATIONS OR REHABILITATION OF HISTORIC PROPERTY UNDER THE
 JURISDICTION OF THE  LOCAL  PRESERVATION  COMMISSION  AS  PART  OF  THIS
 PROJECT  ARE  APPROVED  BY  THAT COMMISSION PRIOR TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF
 WORK; AND
   (IV) A COUNTY, CITY, TOWN OR VILLAGE BY LOCAL LAW OR  SCHOOL  DISTRICT
 BY RESOLUTION MAY:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04813-01-5

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