STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3996

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 1, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen. REICHLIN-MELNICK -- 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  extending
          limitations  on  the  shift between classes of taxable property in the
          town of Clarkstown, county of Rockland

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subparagraph  (xx)  of  paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of
     2  section 1903 of the real property tax law, as amended by  section  1  of
     3  item  LLL of subpart B of part XXX of chapter 58 of the laws of 2020, is
     4  amended to read as follows:
     5    (xx) Notwithstanding any  other  provision  of  law,  in  an  approved
     6  assessing  unit  in  the  town of Clarkstown, county of Rockland and for
     7  current base proportions  to  be  determined  by  taxes  based  on  such
     8  approved assessing unit's two thousand seventeen--two thousand eighteen,
     9  two thousand eighteen--two thousand nineteen, two thousand nineteen--two
    10  thousand twenty [and], two thousand twenty--two thousand twenty-one, two
    11  thousand  twenty-one--two  thousand  twenty-two  assessment  rolls,  the
    12  current base proportion of any class shall not exceed the adjusted  base
    13  proportion  or  adjusted  proportion,  whichever  is appropriate, of the
    14  immediately preceding year, by more than one percent, provided that such
    15  approved assessing unit has passed a local law, ordinance or  resolution
    16  providing  therefor.  Where  the computation of current base proportions
    17  would otherwise produce such result, the current base proportion of such
    18  class or classes shall be limited to such one percent increase  and  the
    19  legislative body of such approved assessing unit shall alter the current
    20  base  proportion  of  either  class  so that the sum of the current base
    21  proportions equals one.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04191-01-1