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                                   2953
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2017
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 Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD, GOTTFRIED, BUCHWALD, MONTESANO, PAULIN,
   BICHOTTE,  FAHY,  MURRAY, RAIA, OTIS, ABINANTI, PALMESANO, JEAN-PIERRE
   -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GALEF, HYNDMAN, McLAUGHLIN  --  read
   once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the general municipal law, in relation to establishing
   limits upon local government tax levies
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraphs (e) and (h) of subdivision 2 of section 3-c of
 the general municipal law, as added by section 1 of part A of chapter 97
 of the laws of 2011, are amended to read as follows:
   (e) "Local government" means  a  county,  city,  town,  village,  fire
 district,  or  special  district including but not limited to a district
 created pursuant to article twelve or twelve-A, or governed  by  article
 thirteen  of the town law, or created pursuant to article five-A, five-B
 or five-D of the county law, [chapter five hundred sixteen of  the  laws
 of  nineteen hundred twenty-eight,] or chapter two hundred seventy-three
 of the laws of nineteen hundred  thirty-nine,  and  shall  include  town
 improvements  provided  pursuant to articles three-A and twelve-C of the
 town law but shall not include the city of  New  York  or  the  counties
 contained  therein  OR SPECIAL DISTRICTS ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO ARTICLE
 NINETEEN-A OF THIS CHAPTER.
   (h) "Tax" or "taxes" shall include (i)  a  charge  imposed  upon  real
 property  by  or  on  behalf  of a county, city, town, village or school
 district for municipal or school district purposes, and (ii) special  ad
 valorem  levies and special assessments as defined in subdivisions four-
 teen and fifteen of section one hundred two of the real property tax law
 BUT NOT INCLUDING AD VALOREM LEVIES AND SPECIAL  ASSESSMENTS  AUTHORIZED
 TO  BE ESTABLISHED AND IMPOSED PURSUANT TO SECTION NINE HUNDRED EIGHTY-J
 OF THIS CHAPTER.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07646-01-7
              

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   § 2. Subparagraph (iv) of paragraph (g) of subdivision  2  of  section
 3-c  of  the  general  municipal law, as added by section 1 of part A of
 chapter 97 of the laws of 2011, is amended and a new  paragraph  (v)  is
 added to read as follows:
   (iv)  in  years  in which the normal contribution rate of the New York
 state teachers' retirement system, as defined by paragraph a of subdivi-
 sion two of  section  five  hundred  seventeen  of  the  education  law,
 increases  by  more than two percentage points from the previous year, a
 tax levy necessary for expenditures for the coming fiscal year for local
 government employer  contributions  to  the  New  York  state  teachers'
 retirement system caused by growth in the normal contribution rate minus
 two percentage points[.];
   (V)  AD VALOREM LEVIES AND SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS AUTHORIZED TO BE ESTAB-
 LISHED AND IMPOSED PURSUANT TO SECTION NINE  HUNDRED  EIGHTY-J  OF  THIS
 CHAPTER.
   §  3.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
 the amendments to section 3-c of  the  general  municipal  law  made  by
 sections  one  and  two  of this act shall not affect the repeal of such
 section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.