Bill Text: NY A00209 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts the "sewage flooding prevention act"' authorizes certain homeowners and not-for-profit agencies in New York City to receive an abatement of real property taxes up to two thousand dollars for the cost of installing sewer improvement check valve devices on certain dwellings; directs the New York City department of environmental protection to promulgate any necessary rules and regulations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to real property taxation [A00209 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A00209-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          209
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 5, 2011
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       Introduced  by M. of A. LANCMAN, PHEFFER, CLARK -- Multi-Sponsored by --
         M. of A. NOLAN -- read once and referred  to  the  Committee  on  Real
         Property Taxation
       AN ACT to amend the real property tax law and the administrative code of
         the  city  of  New  York, in relation to enacting the "sewage flooding
         prevention act"
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
    2  the "sewage flooding prevention act".
    3    S 2. The real property tax law is amended by adding a new section  470
    4  to read as follows:
    5    S  470.  ABATEMENT  OF  TAXES FOR THE INSTALLATION OF CHECK VALVES FOR
    6  SEWER IMPROVEMENTS IN CITIES WITH A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION  OR  MORE.
    7  1.  IN  A  CITY WITH A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE, ANY OWNER OF A
    8  DWELLING WHO INSTALLS A CHECK VALVE DEVICE TO PREVENT SEWAGE FROM  BACK-
    9  FLOWING  INTO  SUCH DWELLING SHALL RECEIVE AN ABATEMENT OF TAXES ON SUCH
   10  REAL PROPERTY EQUALING ONE-HALF, UP TO TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS TOWARDS  THE
   11  COST OF PURCHASING AND INSTALLING SUCH DEVICE.
   12    2.  ANY  NOT-FOR-PROFIT  ENTITY WHICH OWNS A BUILDING OF ANY TYPE OR A
   13  DWELLING IN A CITY WITH A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR  MORE  AND  WHICH
   14  INSTALLS  A  CHECK VALVE DEVICE TO PREVENT SEWAGE FROM BACK-FLOWING INTO
   15  SUCH BUILDING OR DWELLING SHALL RECEIVE AN ABATEMENT OF WATER AND  SEWER
   16  CHARGES  EQUALING ONE-HALF OF THE COST OF PURCHASING AND INSTALLING SUCH
   17  DEVICE, UP TO TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS.
   18    3. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM  "DWELLING"  SHALL  MEAN
   19  ANY BUILDING, STRUCTURE OR PORTION THEREOF WHICH IS OCCUPIED IN WHOLE OR
   20  IN  PART  AS  A  HOME, RESIDENCE OR SLEEPING PLACE FOR ONE OR MORE HUMAN
   21  BEINGS.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD01235-01-1
       A. 209                              2
    1    4. THE NEW YORK CITY  DEPARTMENT  OF  ENVIRONMENTAL  PROTECTION  SHALL
    2  PROMULGATE ANY RULES AND REGULATIONS NECESSARY FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF
    3  THIS  SECTION,  INCLUDING  BUT  NOT  LIMITED TO, IDENTIFYING APPROPRIATE
    4  CHECK VALVE SYSTEMS.
    5    S 3. Subdivision e of section 24-514 of the administrative code of the
    6  city of New York is amended to read as follows:
    7    e.  Exemptions from sewer rents or charges. Any real property which is
    8  entitled to an exemption from the payment  of  water  rents  or  charges
    9  shall  also be exempt from payment of the sewer rents or charges imposed
   10  hereunder. IN ADDITION, ANY NOT-FOR-PROFIT ENTITY WHICH OWNS A  BUILDING
   11  OF  ANY TYPE OR A DWELLING IN A CITY WITH A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR
   12  MORE AND WHICH INSTALLS A CHECK VALVE  DEVICE  TO  PREVENT  SEWAGE  FROM
   13  BACK-FLOWING  INTO  SUCH BUILDING OR DWELLING SHALL RECEIVE AN ABATEMENT
   14  OF WATER AND SEWER CHARGES EQUALING ONE-HALF OF THE COST  OF  PURCHASING
   15  AND  INSTALLING  SUCH  DEVICE,  UP  TO  TWO  THOUSAND DOLLARS.   FOR THE
   16  PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, THE TERM "DWELLING" SHALL MEAN ANY  BUILD-
   17  ING,  STRUCTURE OR PORTION THEREOF WHICH IS OCCUPIED IN WHOLE OR IN PART
   18  AS A HOME, RESIDENCE OR SLEEPING PLACE FOR ONE OR MORE HUMAN BEINGS.
   19    S 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   20  it shall have become a law.