Bill Text: NY S02917 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the city of Syracuse to add unpaid housing code violation penalties, costs and fines to the city's annual tax levy.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-07 - referred to codes [S02917 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2917
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 30, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  DeFRANCISCO -- 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  authorizing
         the  city  of Syracuse to add unpaid housing code violation penalties,
         costs and fines to the city's  annual  tax  levy  in  accordance  with
         applicable law
         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 901 to read as follows:
    3    S 901. COLLECTION OF UNPAID HOUSING CODE VIOLATION PENALTIES; LEVY. 1.
    4  IN  ADDITION  TO AND NOT IN LIMITATION OF ANY POWER OTHERWISE GRANTED BY
    5  LAW, THE CITY OF SYRACUSE IS HEREBY AUTHORIZED  TO  COLLECT  ANY  UNPAID
    6  HOUSING  CODE  VIOLATION PENALTIES, COSTS AND FINES THROUGH PLACEMENT BY
    7  THE CITY'S COMMISSIONER OF FINANCE ON THE  CITY'S  ANNUAL  TAX  LEVY  IN
    8  ACCORDANCE  WITH THE APPLICABLE PROVISIONS OF THE CITY'S TAX AND ASSESS-
    9  MENT ACT (CHAPTER SEVENTY-FIVE OF THE LAWS OF NINETEEN HUNDRED  SIX,  AS
   10  AMENDED).
   11    2. IN ORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR PLACEMENT ON THE CITY'S ANNUAL TAX LEVY
   12  SUCH UNPAID HOUSING CODE VIOLATION PENALTIES, COSTS AND FINES SHALL HAVE
   13  BEEN  ADJUDICATED AND IMPOSED THROUGH A JUDGMENT IN A COURT OF COMPETENT
   14  JURISDICTION ON AN OWNER OF REAL PROPERTY WITHIN THE CITY, AS  CERTIFIED
   15  BY  THE  CITY'S  CORPORATION COUNSEL TO THE COMMISSIONER OF FINANCE, AND
   16  HAVE REMAINED UNPAID FOR ONE YEAR PRECEDING THE PLACEMENT ON THE  CITY'S
   17  TAX LEVY.
   18    3. SUCH HOUSING CODE VIOLATION PENALTY, COST OR FINE AS SET FORTH IN A
   19  COPY OF THE JUDGMENT CERTIFIED BY THE CORPORATION COUNSEL TO THE COMMIS-
   20  SIONER  OF  FINANCE  SHALL  BE SET DOWN IN THE ANNUAL TAX LEVY UNDER THE
   21  HEADING UNCOLLECTED FINES AND PENALTIES AND SHALL  BE  LEVIED,  ENFORCED
   22  AND  COLLECTED  IN THE SAME MANNER, BY THE SAME PROCEEDINGS, AT THE SAME
   23  TIME, UNDER THE SAME PENALTIES AND HAVING THE SAME LIEN UPON THE PROPER-
   24  TY ASSESSED AS THE GENERAL CITY TAX AND AS A PART THEREOF.
   25    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD01757-01-5