Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Jun 05, 2018 |
reported referred to rules |
May 04, 2018 |
referred to ways and means |
Assembly Bill A10531
2017-2018 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
MORINELLO
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2017-A10531 (ACTIVE) - Details
2017-A10531 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 10531 I N A S S E M B L Y May 4, 2018 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. MORINELLO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to imposing an additional one percent occupancy tax in the city of Niagara Falls to benefit the Discover Niagara shuttle THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 9 of section 1202-l of the tax law, as amended by chapter 247 of the laws of 2006, are amended to read as follows: (1) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, the city of Niagara Falls is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt and amend local laws imposing in such city a tax in addition to any tax authorized and imposed pursuant to this article such as the legislature has or would have the power and authority to impose on persons occupying hotel and motel rooms in such city. The rate of such tax shall be [five] SIX per centum [(5%)] (6%) per day of the rent or charge for each room; provided, however, such tax shall not be applicable to a permanent resi- dent of a hotel. For the purposes of this section, the term "permanent resident" shall mean a person occupying any room or rooms in a hotel for at least thirty consecutive days. (9) Revenues resulting from the imposition of tax authorized by this act shall be paid into the treasury of the city of Niagara Falls and shall be credited to and deposited in the general fund account of such city and shall be used only for the promotion of convention activities and tourism as follows: (a) from the first four [percentum] PER CENTUM (4%), eighty percent of such revenue from this tax shall be allocated and paid to a not-for-profit corporation under contract with the county for the promotion of tourism in the county; fifteen percent of such revenue shall be retained by the city of Niagara Falls for any city purpose; and the remaining five percent of said first four [percentum] PER CENTUM (4%) of revenue shall be retained by the city of Niagara Falls for administration and collection costs; (b) the additional one percentum (1%) of such revenue from this tax FIRST AUTHORIZED PURSUANT EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
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