Bill Text: NY A05872 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 5872 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides that the hotel room occupancy tax cannot be imposed in the county of Richmond.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-14 - held for consideration in ways and means [A05872 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A05872-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5872
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 16, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CASTORINA  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Ways and Means
        AN ACT to amend chapter 161 of the laws of 1970,  relating  to  enabling
          any  city  having  a  population  of one million or more to impose and
          collect taxes on occupancy of hotel rooms in such city, in relation to
          exempting the county of Richmond from the imposition of such taxes
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  opening  paragraph  of subdivision 1 of section 1 of
     2  chapter 161 of the laws of 1970, relating to enabling any city having  a
     3  population  of  one million or more to impose and collect taxes on occu-
     4  pancy of hotel rooms in such city, as amended by chapter 253 of the laws
     5  of 1980, is amended to read as follows:
     6    Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, except  in
     7  the  county  of Richmond, any city having a population of one million or
     8  more is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt and  amend  local  laws
     9  imposing  in  any  such city a tax in addition to any tax authorized and
    10  imposed pursuant to article twenty-nine of  the  tax  law  such  as  the
    11  legislature  has  or  would  have  the  power and authority to impose on
    12  persons occupying hotel rooms in such city. The rates of such tax  shall
    13  be  either  the  rates  contained  in the following paragraph (a) or the
    14  rates contained in the following paragraph (b):
    15    § 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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