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                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 28, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Real Property Taxation
       AN  ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to requiring the
         disclosure to the petitioner of the assessing  method,  capitalization
         rate, and certain other information used to determine valuation by the
         respondent in a judicial proceeding brought to review an assessment of
         real property in a city having 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. Subdivision 2 of section 714 of the real property  tax  law
    2  is amended to read as follows:
    3    2.  If the respondent has not served an answer or moved to dismiss the
    4  petition prior to the service of a note of issue, except as hereinbefore
    5  provided, in order to raise an objection to the sufficiency of the peti-
    6  tion  or  assert an affirmative defense upon the hearing, he OR SHE must
    7  serve upon the petitioner within forty days after the service of a  note
    8  of  issue,  a  notice  containing  a  statement  of  the  nature of such
    9  objection or such defense, unless for good cause the time to serve  such
   10  notice  is  extended  by  the court or a justice thereof, on an order to
   11  show cause.  Unless the petitioner and respondent stipulate  in  writing
   12  for  a  hearing  at  an earlier date, no hearing shall be held less than
   13  thirty days after service of such  notice  upon  the  petitioner.    THE
   14  ANSWER  OR  NOTICE SERVED PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION
   15  SHALL DISCLOSE THE ASSESSING METHOD USED, ANY CAPITALIZATION RATE  USED,
   16  AND  ANY  OTHER  DATA  OR FORMULA USED TO DETERMINE THE VALUATION OF THE
   17  REAL PROPERTY.
   18    S 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
   19  have become a law and shall apply to proceedings commenced or pending on
   20  or  after  its  effective  date, and, in addition, the disclosure of the
   21  information required to be disclosed by the amendment made  to  subdivi-
   22  sion  2  of  section  714 of the real property tax law by section one of
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1  this act shall,  if  the  time  for  such  disclosure  pursuant  to  the
    2  provisions  of  such subdivision 2 has passed in a proceeding pending on
    3  the effective date of this act, be made within thirty days of the effec-
    4  tive  date  of  this act, and the petitioner shall have a continuance of
    5  thirty days from receipt thereof to review such disclosures  and  submit
    6  or  modify  such  documents  or other evidence, or make such motions, as
    7  such disclosures may prompt.