File #: Int 0782-2024    Version: Name: Outreach to property owners subject to municipal property taxes.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in Committee
Committee: Committee on Finance
On agenda: 4/11/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to preemptive outreach to property owners subject to municipal property taxes
Sponsors: Sandy Nurse, Chi A. Ossé, Crystal Hudson, Mercedes Narcisse, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Alexa Avilés, Shekar Krishnan, Julie Won, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Nantasha M. Williams, Rita C. Joseph, Gale A. Brewer, Sandra Ung, Shaun Abreu, Yusef Salaam, (in conjunction with the Brooklyn Borough Presiden
Council Member Sponsors: 16
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Finance (Department) to send owners of residential real property, with their statement of account, detailed information on the availability of certain exemptions from real property tax or payments in lieu of taxes (PILOT) to the Battery Park City Authority, for which that owner may be eligible. Such notices shall include information, at minimum, for the SCRIE, DRIE, Veterans’, and cooperative/condominium exemptions, along with any other exemption the Department includes at their discretion. The bill would also require the Department to notify each owner of residential real property in the city about how they can register in the Automated City Register Information System (ACRIS) database, or successor database, such that they can receive notices when deeds, mortgages, or related documents affecting their ownership interest have been recorded against their property. The bill would also permit a person eligible for such exemptions to designate an adult third party who may receive these notices on their behalf, with the consent of the third party. The bill would also require the Department to send a reminder notice to such owners who have not submitted renewal applications for such eligible exemptions. The notice must include information on qualifications and filing deadlines, and be accessible in the ten designated citywide languages as well as Braille or via audio.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 782-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 782, 3. Int. No. 782, 4. April 11, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 4-11-24, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - April 11, 2024, 7. Proposed Int. No. 782-A - 10/10/24, 8. Committee Report 1/14/25, 9. Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 10. Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
1/14/2025*Sandy Nurse Committee on Finance Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/14/2025*Sandy Nurse Committee on Finance Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/14/2025*Sandy Nurse Committee on Finance Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/11/2024*Sandy Nurse City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/11/2024*Sandy Nurse City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 782

 

By Council Members Nurse, Ossé, Hudson, Narcisse, Sanchez, Brooks-Powers, Avilés, Krishnan, Won, Gutiérrez, Williams, Joseph, Brewer, Ung, Abreu and Salaam (in conjunction with the Brooklyn Borough President)

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to preemptive outreach to property owners subject to municipal property taxes

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subdivision b of section 11-207.1 is amended to read as follows:

b. 1. The notice of property value sent by the department to an owner of real property shall inform such owner how to access additional information on the website of the department regarding valuation of the subject real property, including the factors used by the department to determine the market value of such real property. The notice of property value shall include the address of such website. Such information shall be made available at least thirty days prior to the final date for filing any appeal.

2. The commissioner of finance, or their designee, shall include with the notice of property value sent to an owner of real property, a notice containing detailed information about available property tax exemptions and abatements for which the recipient owner may be eligible.  Such notice shall clearly state the filing deadline to apply for such exemptions and abatements and give detailed information about qualifications for each respective exemption and abatement.  Such notice shall also provide the recipient owner guidance on how to access this information in the designated citywide languages, as well as in a Braille alphabet or in audio format as necessary.  For the purposes of this paragraph, “designated citywide languages” has the same meaning as described in subdivision a of section 23-1101.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

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