Bill Text: NY A07006 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relates to the timing of distribution of mortgage recording tax revenues by counties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to ways and means [A07006 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A07006-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relates to the timing of distribution of mortgage recording tax revenues by counties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to ways and means [A07006 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A07006-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ S. 4873 A. 7006 2013-2014 Regular Sessions S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y April 29, 2013 ___________ IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered print- ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investi- gations and Government Operations IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to the timing of distribution of mortgage recording tax revenues by counties THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 261 of the tax law, as amended by 2 chapter 287 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows: 3 3. On or before the tenth day of each month the recording officer of 4 each county shall pay over to the county treasurer of said county, and 5 in the counties of New York, Kings, Queens, Richmond and Bronx to the 6 commissioner of finance of the city of New York for credit to the gener- 7 al fund of such city, the balance of the moneys received during the 8 preceding month upon account of taxes paid to him or her as herein 9 prescribed, after deducting the necessary expenses of his or her office 10 as provided in section two hundred sixty-two of this article, except 11 taxes paid upon mortgages which under the provisions of section two 12 hundred sixty of this article are first to be apportioned by the commis- 13 sioner, which taxes and money shall be paid over by the commissioner of 14 finance of the city of New York as provided by the determination of the 15 commissioner. In each county not within the city of New York, the whole 16 of the net amount of such balance, after the deduction by the county 17 treasurer of the necessary expenses of his or her office provided in 18 section two hundred sixty-two of this article, shall be held by him or 19 her and shall be allocated to the tax districts of the county according 20 to the location of the real property covered by the respective mortgages 21 upon which the tax was collected. [The recording officer and county EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10612-01-3 S. 4873 2 A. 7006 1 treasurer shall prepare a joint semi-annual report on or before May 2 fifteenth and on or before November fifteenth in each year showing the 3 amounts to be credited to each tax district of the county of the moneys 4 collected under this article during the preceding periods of six months 5 each which ended respectively on March thirty-first and September thir- 6 tieth. Such report shall be made in duplicate in accordance with the 7 rules and regulations of the commissioner and filed with the clerk of 8 the board of supervisors and the commissioner. The board of supervisors, 9 on or before the fifteenth day of June and on or before the fifteenth 10 day of December in each year, shall issue its warrant for the payment to 11 the respective tax districts of the amounts so credited, provided, 12 however, that in] IN a county in which a town contains within its limits 13 an incorporated village, or portion thereof, the board of supervisors 14 shall apportion to such village so much of the share credited to the 15 town as the assessed value of said village or portion thereof bears to 16 twice the total assessed valuation of the town[, and provided, further, 17 that, at the option of the]. THE governing board of the county[, the 18 county may instead] SHALL prepare and file [such] a joint report and 19 make such payments on EITHER a monthly or quarterly basis. Where the 20 county elects to make monthly payments, the recording officer and county 21 treasurer shall prepare a joint report on or before the fifteenth day of 22 each month showing the amounts to be credited to each tax district of 23 the county and the moneys collected under this article for the month 24 preceding the most recently concluded month, and the board of supervi- 25 sors shall issue its warrant for payment on or before the fifteenth day 26 of the following month. Where the county elects to make quarterly 27 payments, the recording officer and county treasurer shall prepare such 28 a joint report on or before the fifteenth day of May, August, November, 29 and February, showing the amounts to be credited to each tax district of 30 the county of moneys collected under this article for the preceding 31 three-month period ending March thirty-first, June thirtieth, September 32 thirtieth, and December thirty-first, respectively and the board of 33 supervisors shall issue its warrant for payment on or before the 34 fifteenth day of June, September, December, and March, respectively. The 35 warrant shall direct payment to the city treasurer of the amount due the 36 city, to the town supervisor of the amount due the town, and to the 37 village treasurer of the amount to which the village shall be entitled. 38 Mortgage tax moneys allotted to cities, towns and villages shall be 39 applied to the payment of the general expenses thereof. The commissioner 40 shall prescribe the method of adjustment and correction of errors here- 41 tofore or hereafter made in the distribution of moneys collected under 42 this article. 43 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.