Bill Text: PA SB1259 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for Category 2 slot machine license and providing for validity of tax settlement and payment in lieu of taxes agreements.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-05 - Referred to COMMUNITY, ECONOMIC AND RECREATIONAL DEVELOPMENT [SB1259 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-SB1259-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 1720
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 1259 Session of2010
INTRODUCED BY STACK, ORIE, WOZNIAK, BOSCOLA, MENSCH, WARD AND FOLMER, MARCH 5, 2010
REFERRED TO COMMUNITY, ECONOMIC AND RECREATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, MARCH 5, 2010
AN ACT
Amending Title 4 (Amusements) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, further providing for Category 2 slot machine
license and providing for validity of tax settlement and
payment in lieu of taxes agreements.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 1304(b)(3) of Title 4 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, amended January 7, 2010 (P.L.1, No.1), is
amended to read:
§ 1304. Category 2 slot machine license.
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(b) Location.--
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[(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
governing body of a city of the first class shall not exempt
from real property taxation or provide any real property tax
abatement under the act of December 1, 1977 (P.L.237, No.76),
known as the Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance
Act, to a Category 2 licensed facility located within the
city, or any improvements to such facility, unless the owner
of the licensed facility enters into or has entered into a
tax settlement agreement or payment in lieu of taxes
agreement with the city, including any amendments,
supplements or modifications of such agreements.]
Section 2. Title 4 is amended by adding a section to read:
§ 1311.3. Validity of tax settlement and payment in lieu of
taxes agreements.
Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, no tax
settlement agreement, payment in lieu of taxes agreement or any
amendment, supplement or modification thereof, existing prior or
subsequent to the effective date of this section, shall be valid
or enforceable if the agreement, amendment, supplement or
modification designates any real property, upon which a licensed
facility is located, as or included in a deteriorated property
as defined in the act of December 1, 1977 (P.L.237, No.76),
known as the Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance Act.
Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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