New York S 1937: Authorizes municipalities in the county of Rockland to add unpaid housing code violation penalties, costs and fines to such municipalities' annual tax levy

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S01937 Summary:

BILL NOS01937 

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SPONSORWEBER

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COSPNSRHARCKHAM

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Authorizes municipalities in the county of Rockland to add unpaid housing code violation penalties, costs and fines to such municipalities' annual tax levy in accordance with applicable law.

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BILL NOS01937 

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01/14/2025REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

01/07/2026REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1937

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 14, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. WEBER, HARCKHAM -- 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 authorizing
 certain municipalities to add unpaid housing code violation penalties,
 costs and fines to such municipalities' annual tax levy in accordance
 with applicable law

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The real property tax law is amended by adding a new
 2 section 903 to read as follows:
 3 § 903. Collection of unpaid housing code violation penalties; levy. 1.
 4 Authorization. In addition to and not in limitation of any power other-
 5 wise granted by law, municipalities in the county of Rockland, including
 6 the county of Rockland, are hereby authorized to collect any unpaid
 7 housing, building and fire code violation penalties, costs and fines
 8 through placement by the municipality's commissioner of finance, treas-
 9 urer, or other public official charged with the duties of overseeing tax
 10 collections on the municipality's annual tax levy in accordance with the
 11 provisions of this section.
 12 2. Eligibility. In order to be eligible for placement on the munici-
 13 pality's annual tax levy such unpaid code violation penalties, costs and
 14 fines shall have been adjudicated and imposed through a judgment in a
 15 court of competent jurisdiction on an owner of real property within the
 16 municipality and recorded by the county clerk, as certified by the
 17 municipal counsel to the commissioner of finance, treasurer or other
 18 public official charged with the duties of overseeing tax collections
 19 and have remained unpaid for one year after the final adjudication and
 20 exhaustion of all appeals relating to the imposition of the fines for a
 21 code violation preceding the placement on the municipality's tax levy.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03418-01-5

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 1 3. Minimum amount owed. To qualify for placement on the tax levy the
 2 amount owed for unpaid code violations must be at least five percent of
 3 the amount of the tax assessed value of the property.
 4 4. Levy. Such code violation penalty, cost or fine as set forth in a
 5 copy of the judgment certified by the municipal counsel to the commis-
 6 sioner of finance, treasurer or other public official charged with the
 7 duties of overseeing tax collections shall be set down in the annual tax
 8 levy under the heading uncollected fines and penalties and in according
 9 with this section shall be levied, enforced and collected in the same
 10 manner, by the same proceedings, at the same time, under the same penal-
 11 ties and having the same lien upon the property assessed as the general
 12 municipal tax and as a part thereof.
 13 5. Notice. The municipality shall notify all owners or known inter-
 14 ested parties of record of the placement of the code violations on the
 15 municipal tax levy as uncollected fines and penalties within thirty days
 16 of placement, pursuant to section three hundred eight of the civil prac-
 17 tice law and rules. The notice shall include the date or dates of such
 18 violations, the description of the violations, the amount owed, a state-
 19 ment detailing the foreclosure process that will occur if the violations
 20 remain unpaid, the process to claim any surplus funds and the contac