Bill Text: NY S03315 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that owners of private real property exempt from taxation shall give municipalities notice of intention to sell.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-08 - RECOMMITTED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S03315 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S03315-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3315
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    March 16, 2009
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  OPPENHEIMER -- read twice and ordered printed, and
         when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
       AN ACT to amend the real property tax  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
         notice of intention to sell exempt real property
         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 496 to read as follows:
    3    S  496.  NOTICE OF INTENTION TO SELL PRIVATE PROPERTY EXEMPT FROM REAL
    4  PROPERTY TAXATION. OWNERS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY EXEMPT FROM REAL  PROPERTY
    5  TAXATION  UNDER  SECTIONS  FOUR  HUNDRED  FOUR,  FOUR  HUNDRED SIX, FOUR
    6  HUNDRED EIGHT, FOUR HUNDRED TEN, FOUR HUNDRED TEN-A, FOUR HUNDRED TEN-B,
    7  FOUR HUNDRED TWELVE, FOUR HUNDRED TWELVE-A, FOUR HUNDRED TWELVE-B,  FOUR
    8  HUNDRED  FOURTEEN,  FOUR  HUNDRED  TWENTY-A AND FOUR HUNDRED TWENTY-B OF
    9  THIS ARTICLE MUST PROVIDE NOTIFICATION BY CERTIFIED MAIL OF INTENTION TO
   10  SELL SUCH PROPERTY TO EACH COUNTY,  MUNICIPALITY,  SCHOOL  DISTRICT,  OR
   11  OTHER  PUBLIC  ENTITY  FROM  WHOSE  TAXATION  THE  OWNER IS EXEMPT. SUCH
   12  NOTIFICATION MUST BE RECEIVED AT LEAST THIRTY DAYS BEFORE SUCH  PROPERTY
   13  IS  LISTED  OR  ADVERTISED FOR SALE OR, IF THE PROPERTY IS NOT LISTED OR
   14  ADVERTISED FOR SALE, AT LEAST THIRTY DAYS BEFORE THE CONTRACT OF SALE IS
   15  SIGNED.   SUCH OWNER SHALL  PROVIDE  A  CERTIFIED  COPY  OF  THE  NOTICE
   16  REQUIRED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION TO THE PURCHASER AT THE TIME OF TRANS-
   17  FER OF TITLE.
   18    S  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
   19  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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