Bill Text: NY S08773 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Permits a village to adopt an exemption from taxation for real property owned by a volunteer peace officer to the extent of five hundred dollars.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-11 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S08773 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S08773-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8773 IN SENATE March 11, 2024 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ORTT -- 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 village property tax exemption for certain peace officers The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 466 of the real property tax law, as amended by 2 chapter 476 of 2018, is amended to real as follows: 3 § 466. Volunteer firefighters, volunteer peace officers and fire 4 companies in villages. Upon the adoption of a proposition therefor by 5 the qualified voters of a village, the real property owned by a volun- 6 teer member of the village fire department, a volunteer peace officer 7 and the real property owned by any volunteer fire company in the village 8 shall be exempt from taxation for village purposes to the extent of five 9 hundred dollars in addition to any other exemption authorized by law. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 11 ing the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to 12 taxable status dates occurring on or after such date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14634-01-4
