Bill Text: NY S06696 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes Salt and Sea Mission Church, Inc. to file an application for exemption from real property taxes and water and sewer charges for certain assessment rolls for the year 2013 to the year 2016.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-03-16 - referred to real property taxation [S06696 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06696-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6696
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 5, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
        AN ACT to authorize Salt and Sea Mission Church, Inc. to file an  appli-
          cation  for  exemption  from real property taxes and an exemption from
          water and sewer charges for certain assessment rolls
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
     2  the  commissioner  of  the New York city department of finance is hereby
     3  authorized to accept from Salt and Sea Mission Church, Inc., a  not-for-
     4  profit  corporation,  an  application  for  exemption from real property
     5  taxes pursuant to section 420-a of the real property  tax  law  for  the
     6  2013  through 2016 assessment rolls, for the parcel owned by such corpo-
     7  ration in the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, designated as block
     8  7185, lot 72 in such borough. If  accepted,  the  application  shall  be
     9  reviewed as if it had been received on or before the taxable status date
    10  established for such assessment rolls.
    11    If satisfied that such corporation would otherwise be entitled to such
    12  exemption  if such corporation had filed an application for exemption by
    13  the appropriate taxable status date, the commissioner of  the  New  York
    14  city  department  of  finance,  upon approval by the city council of the
    15  city of New York, may grant exemption from all taxation with respect  to
    16  the subject tax rolls due and owing by such corporation on the effective
    17  date of this act and cancel taxes, fines, penalties and interest remain-
    18  ing  unpaid,  and  make appropriate correction of the subject assessment
    19  rolls.
    20    § 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the  contrary,  the
    21  commissioner of the New York city department of environmental protection
    22  is hereby authorized to accept from Salt and Sea Mission Church, Inc., a
    23  not-for-profit  corporation, an application for exemption from water and
    24  sewer charges pursuant to section 420-a of the real property tax law for
    25  the 2013 through 2016 assessment rolls, for the  parcel  owned  by  such
    26  corporation  in the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, designated as
    27  block 7185, lot 72 in such borough. If accepted, the  application  shall
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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