Bill Text: NY A09789 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes Moses Jacobowitz Charitable Foundation, in the borough of Brooklyn of the city of New York, to file a retroactive application for exemption from water and sewer charges.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-24 - reported referred to ways and means [A09789 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09789-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9789--A
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      April 8, 2016
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        Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Real  Property  Taxation  --  committee  discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to authorize Moses Jacobowitz Charitable Foundation  to  file  an
          application  for  exemption  from  water and sewer charges for certain
          assessment rolls
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
     2  the  commissioner  of  the  New  York  city  department of environmental
     3  protection is hereby authorized to accept from Moses Jacobowitz Charita-
     4  ble  Foundation,  a  not-for-profit  corporation,  an  application   for
     5  exemption  from water and sewer charges pursuant to section 420-a of the
     6  real property tax law for the 2014 through 2015  assessment  rolls,  for
     7  the parcel owned by such corporation in the city of New York, borough of
     8  Brooklyn, designated as block 1750, lot 21 in such borough. If accepted,
     9  the  application  shall  be  reviewed  as  if it had been received on or
    10  before the taxable status date established for such assessment rolls.
    11    If satisfied that such corporation would otherwise be entitled to such
    12  exemption if such corporation had filed an application for exemption  by
    13  the  appropriate  taxable  status date, the commissioner of the New York
    14  city department of environmental protection, upon approval by  the  city
    15  council  of the city of New York, may grant exemption from all water and
    16  sewer charges with respect to the subject tax rolls  due  and  owing  by
    17  such  corporation  on the effective date of this act and cancel charges,
    18  fines, penalties and interest remaining  unpaid,  and  make  appropriate
    19  correction of the subject assessment rolls.
    20    § 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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