Bill Text: NY S05288 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides that oil, gas, and mineral rights shall be sold along with any property sold pursuant to a tax foreclosure sale.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-11-20 - SIGNED CHAP.500 [S05288 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S05288-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5288
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     May 12, 2015
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  Sen.  SEWARD -- 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  the  sale  of
         gas, oil, and mineral rights associated with a foreclosed property
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1166 of the real property tax law,
    2  as amended by chapter 532 of the laws of 1994, is  amended  to  read  as
    3  follows:
    4    1.  Whenever  any  tax  district shall become vested with the title to
    5  real property by virtue of a foreclosure proceeding brought pursuant  to
    6  the  provisions  of this article, such tax district is hereby authorized
    7  to sell and convey the real property so acquired,  WHICH  SHALL  INCLUDE
    8  ANY AND ALL GAS, OIL OR MINERAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATED WITH SUCH REAL PROPER-
    9  TY,  either  with  or  without advertising for bids, notwithstanding the
   10  provisions of any general, special or local law.
   11    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
   12  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.
                                                                  LBD05131-01-5
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