Bill Text: NY A00209 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the town of Greenburgh, villages in the town of Greenburgh and the village of Sleepy Hollow in the town of Mount Pleasant to adopt a local law to impose a 3 percent hotel/motel occupancy tax.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-12-31 - approval memo.22 [A00209 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A00209-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         209--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 7, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee  on  Ways  and  Means  -- recommitted to the Committee on Ways and
          Means in  accordance  with  Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  tax law, in relation to authorizing the town of
          Greenburgh to adopt a local law to impose a hotel/motel occupancy  tax
          for hotels not located in a village; authorizing specified villages in
          the  towns  of  Greenburgh  and  Mount Pleasant to adopt local laws to
          impose a hotel/motel occupancy tax in such villages; and providing for
          the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The tax law is amended by adding a new section 1202-dd to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 1202-dd. Hotel or motel taxes in the town of Greenburgh  and  speci-
     4  fied villages therein and in the village of Sleepy Hollow.  (1) Notwith-
     5  standing  any  other  provisions  of  law to the contrary, the following
     6  municipalities are hereby authorized and empowered to  adopt  and  amend
     7  local laws imposing a tax on persons occupying rooms in hotels or motels
     8  in  such towns or villages therein, as the legislature has or would have
     9  the power and authority to impose, in addition to any other tax  author-
    10  ized and imposed pursuant to this article:
    11    a.  the  town  of Greenburgh, Westchester county, in those portions of
    12  such town not located within a village;
    13    b. the villages of  Tarrytown,  Irvington,  Ardsley,  Elmsford,  Dobbs
    14  Ferry, Hastings-on-Hudson situate in the town of Greenburgh; and
    15    c. the village of Sleepy Hollow situate in the town of Mount Pleasant,
    16  Westchester county.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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