Bill Text: NY A03148 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An act to amend the real property tax law, in relation to years of active service

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to real property taxation [A03148 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A03148-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3148
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 23, 2009
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       Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Real Property Taxation
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  real  property tax law, in relation to years of
         active service
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of section 466-c of the real property tax
    2  law, as added by chapter 450 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read  as
    3  follows:
    4    3. Any enrolled member of an incorporated volunteer fire company, fire
    5  department  or incorporated voluntary ambulance service who accrues more
    6  than [twenty] FIFTEEN years of active service and is so certified by the
    7  authority having jurisdiction for the incorporated volunteer fire compa-
    8  ny, fire department or incorporated voluntary ambulance  service,  shall
    9  be  granted  the ten percent exemption as authorized by this section for
   10  the remainder of his or her life as long as his or her primary residence
   11  is located within such a county provided that the governing  body  of  a
   12  city,  village, town, county or school district, after a public hearing,
   13  adopts a local law, ordinance or resolution providing therefor.
   14    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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