S 458: Eliminates the real property tax exemption for fire districts, fire protection districts and ambulance districts developed through industrial development agencies in certain counties.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 458 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PALUMBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to the real prop- erty tax exemption for industrial development agencies The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 412-a of the real property tax 2 law, as amended by chapter 372 of the laws of 1991, is amended to read 3 as follows: 4 1. Real property owned by or under the jurisdiction, supervision or 5 control of industrial development agencies enumerated in the general 6 municipal law shall be entitled to such exemption as may be provided 7 therein; except that in counties with a population of not less than one 8 million four hundred ninety thousand nor more than one million five 9 hundred ten thousand as determined by the latest federal decennial 10 census, such real property shall remain subject to taxation by fire 11 districts, fire protection districts and ambulance districts. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to assess- 13 ment rolls prepared on the basis of taxable status dates occurring on or 14 after such date, but shall not apply to projects for which an agency, 15 through the issuance of its bonds, execution of leases or the passage of 16 an inducement resolution or bond resolution, has authorized any assist- 17 ance prior to the date on which this act shall have become a law, wheth- 18 er or not such projects are thereafter modified. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01619-01-5