Bill Text: NY A06272 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to a privately owned vacant property temporary public benefit use exemption.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 0000-00-00 - [A06272 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A06272-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6272
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 20, 2015
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        Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Real Property Taxation
        AN  ACT  to  amend the real property tax law, in relation to a privately
          owned vacant property temporary public benefit use exemption
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  real  property  tax  law  is amended by adding a new
     2  section 481-a to read as follows:
     3    § 481-a. Privately owned vacant property temporary public benefit  use
     4  exemption. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, where
     5  privately owned vacant property is temporarily used for the public bene-
     6  fit  in  a city having a population of one million or more such property
     7  may be exempt from taxation and ad valorem levies for as  long  as  such
     8  real property shall be limited to use for the public benefit for a mini-
     9  mum  of  twenty hours a week in the months of November through March and
    10  twenty-five hours a week in the months of April through October.
    11    2. The term "public benefit", as used in this section  shall  include,
    12  but  not  be limited to, open spaces, community gardens, urban farms and
    13  pop-up parks.
    14    3. No real property shall be entitled to receive an exemption pursuant
    15  to this section if the owner or operator of  such  real  property  shall
    16  receive or may be lawfully entitled to receive pecuniary profit from the
    17  use of such real property.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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