Bill Text: NY S08124 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the sale of tax liens by a tax district in a city with a population of one million or more.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-25 - REFERRED TO CITIES 1 [S08124 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S08124-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8124

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 25, 2022
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities 1

        AN ACT to amend the real property tax law and the administrative code of
          the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting the sale of tax liens
          by a tax district in a city with a population of one million or more

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 1190 of the real
     2  property tax law, as amended by chapter 149 of  the  laws  of  2003,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (a)  Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, a tax
     5  district may enter into a contract to sell some or all of the delinquent
     6  tax liens held by it to the state of New York municipal bond bank agency
     7  created pursuant to section  twenty-four  hundred  thirty-three  of  the
     8  public  authorities  law, hereinafter referred to as the "bond bank", or
     9  to one or more tax lien entities created by the bond  bank  pursuant  to
    10  section twenty-four hundred thirty-five-b of the public authorities law.
    11  A  tax  district  may  enter  into  such a contract whether or not it is
    12  otherwise subject to the provisions of this article[; provided, however,
    13  that any county, city or town that is not subject to the  provisions  of
    14  this  article pursuant to subdivision two of section eleven hundred four
    15  of this article may continue to enforce  the  collection  of  delinquent
    16  taxes,  including  through  the  sale of tax liens, pursuant to a county
    17  charter, city charter, administrative code  or  special  law].  Notwith-
    18  standing any provision of law to the contrary, no tax district in a city
    19  with  a  population of one million or more shall sell some or all of the
    20  tax liens held by it.
    21    § 2. Subdivision b of section 11-319 of the administrative code of the
    22  city of New York is amended by adding a new  paragraph  15  to  read  as
    23  follows:
    24    15. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, on and after
    25  the effective date of this subdivision, no tax lien shall be sold pursu-
    26  ant to this chapter.
    27    §  3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    28  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.
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