Bill Text: NY A07628 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that when property is owned by more than one qualified owner, the exemption to which each such qualified owner is entitled shall be combined.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-20 - held for consideration in real property taxation [A07628 Detail]
Download: New_York-2009-A07628-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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7628
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
April 17, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ, LAVINE, BRADLEY, SCHIMMINGER, ESPAILLAT --
Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COLTON, COOK, CUSICK, DIAZ, JOHN, McEN-
ENY, ROBINSON, SEMINERIO, WEISENBERG, WRIGHT -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Real Property Taxation
AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to the alternate
real property tax exemption for veterans
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 458-a of the real
2 property tax law, as amended by chapter 100 of the laws of 1988, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (c) "Qualified owner" means a veteran, the spouse of a veteran or the
5 unremarried surviving spouse of a veteran. Where property is owned by
6 more than one qualified owner, the exemption to which each is entitled
7 [may] SHALL be combined. Where a veteran is also the unremarried surviv-
8 ing spouse of a veteran, such person may also receive any exemption to
9 which the deceased spouse was entitled.
10 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
11 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.
LBD06222-02-9
