Bill Text: NY S02862 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes municipalities to offer a real property tax exemption to certain volunteers who live in that municipality but who serve in neighboring municipalities.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2024-09-27 - SIGNED CHAP.372 [S02862 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02862-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2862

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 25, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. MARTINEZ -- 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  volunteer
          firefighter and ambulance credits

          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 466-l to read as follows:
     3    § 466-l. Extension of benefits. Any governing body of a city, village,
     4  town,  county,  or school district that has provided a real property tax
     5  credit to volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers serving
     6  the municipality in which they reside, notwithstanding any provision  of
     7  this  title  to  the  contrary, is hereby authorized to extend such real
     8  property tax credit to any volunteer firefighter or volunteer  ambulance
     9  worker  who  provides  such  volunteer  services  to a neighboring city,
    10  village, town, county, or school district.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02305-01-3