Assembly Bill A8207

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Reduces the years of active service necessary for volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers to receive a real property tax exemption

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-A8207 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Real Property Taxation
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง466-c, RPT L
Versions Introduced in 2009-2010 Legislative Session:
A3148

2011-A8207 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Reduces the years of active service necessary for volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers to receive a real property tax exemption from twenty to fifteen years.

2011-A8207 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  8207

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 6, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Real Property Taxation

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  real  property tax law, in relation to years of
  active service

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of section 466-c of the real property tax
law, as added by chapter 450 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read  as
follows:
  3. Any enrolled member of an incorporated volunteer fire company, fire
department  or incorporated voluntary ambulance service who accrues more
than [twenty] FIFTEEN years of active service and is so certified by the
authority having jurisdiction for the incorporated volunteer fire compa-
ny, fire department or incorporated voluntary ambulance  service,  shall
be  granted  the ten percent exemption as authorized by this section for
the remainder of his or her life as long as his or her primary residence
is located within such a county provided that the governing  body  of  a
city,  village, town, county or school district, after a public hearing,
adopts a local law, ordinance or resolution providing therefor.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11627-01-1

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