Bill Text: NY S04829 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to a privately owned vacant property temporary public benefit use exemption.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S04829 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S04829-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4829
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 26, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  FELDER -- 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  a  privately
          owned vacant property temporary public benefit use exemption
          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 481-a to read as follows:
     3    §  481-a. Privately owned vacant property temporary public benefit use
     4  exemption. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, where
     5  privately owned vacant property is temporarily used for the public bene-
     6  fit in a city having a population of one million or more  such  property
     7  may  be  exempt  from taxation and ad valorem levies for as long as such
     8  real property shall be limited to use for the public benefit for a mini-
     9  mum of twenty hours a week in the months of November through  March  and
    10  twenty-five hours a week in the months of April through October.
    11    2.  The  term "public benefit", as used in this section shall include,
    12  but not be limited to, open spaces, community gardens, urban  farms  and
    13  pop-up parks.
    14    3. No real property shall be entitled to receive an exemption pursuant
    15  to  this  section  if  the owner or operator of such real property shall
    16  receive or may be lawfully entitled to receive pecuniary profit from the
    17  use of such real property.
    18    § 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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