Bill Text: NY A04085 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes municipalities with a population of less than one million to impose a tax lien upon foreclosed real property or abandoned real property for unpaid building or health code or zoning violation fines and expenses incurred in curing such violations and for maintaining the curb appearance of such property.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to local governments [A04085 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A04085-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4085
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 1, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. HOOPER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Local Governments
        AN  ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to authorizing a
          municipality to impose tax liens for unpaid building  code  violations
          and maintenance of foreclosed or abandoned real property
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The general municipal  law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 85-b to read as follows:
     3    §  85-b.  Liens for certain fines and expenses owed to a municipality.
     4  The governing body of a municipality with a population of less than  one
     5  million  may  enact  a  local  law, code or ordinance providing that any
     6  unpaid fine for a building code, health code or  zoning  violation  upon
     7  abandoned or foreclosed real property and any unpaid expense incurred by
     8  the municipality to cure any such violation or to maintain such property
     9  and  to  correct  unsightly curb appearance, shall be levied against the
    10  real property and shall constitute a lien thereon, if  the  municipality
    11  files  notice thereof in the office of the county clerk in the county in
    12  which the real property is situate. Every such lien shall  constitute  a
    13  real property tax lien.
    14    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    15  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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