Bill Text: NY A05209 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Authorizes municipalities to offer real property tax credits to certain volunteers who live in one municipality but who serve in neighboring municipalities.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 9-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-07 - referred to real property taxation [A05209 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A05209-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          5209
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 7, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  LUPINACCI  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Real Property Taxation
        AN ACT to amend the real property tax  law,  in  relation  to  volunteer
          firefighter and ambulance credits
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The real property tax  law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 466-k to read as follows:
     3    § 466-k. Extension of benefits. Any governing body of a city, village,
     4  town,  county,  or school district that has provided a real property tax
     5  credit to volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers serving
     6  the municipality in which they reside, notwithstanding any provision  of
     7  this  title  to  the  contrary, is hereby authorized to extend such real
     8  property tax credit to any volunteer firefighter or volunteer  ambulance
     9  worker  who  provides  such  volunteer  services  to a neighboring city,
    10  village, town, county, or school district.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01738-01-7
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