New York S 2321: Relates to authorizing the city of Albany to add unpaid housing code violation penalties, costs and fines to such city's annual tax levy

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S02321 Summary:

BILL NOS02321A

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SAME ASSAME AS A11470

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SPONSORFAHY

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §901-a, RPT L

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Authorizes the city of Albany to add unpaid housing code violation penalties, costs and fines to such city's annual tax levy.

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BILL NOS02321A

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01/16/2025REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

01/07/2026REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

05/05/2026AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

05/05/2026PRINT NUMBER 2321A

05/19/20261ST REPORT CAL.1244

05/20/20262ND REPORT CAL.

05/21/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/02/2026PASSED SENATE

06/02/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

06/02/2026referred to real property taxation

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 2321--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 16, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. FAHY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government -- recom-
 mitted to the Committee on Local Government in accordance with Senate
 Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
 reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to authorizing
 the city of Albany to add unpaid housing code violation penalties,
 costs and fines to such city's annual tax levy

 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 901-a to read as follows:
 3 § 901-a. Collection of unpaid housing code violation penalties in the
 4 city of Albany; levy. 1. Authorization. In addition to and not in limi-
 5 tation of any power otherwise granted by law, the city of Albany is
 6 hereby authorized to collect any unpaid housing, building and fire code
 7 violation penalties, costs and fines through placement by the city's
 8 treasurer on the city's annual tax levy in accordance with the
 9 provisions of this section.
 10 2. Eligibility. In order to be eligible for placement on the city of
 11 Albany's annual tax levy such unpaid code violation penalties, costs and
 12 fines shall have been adjudicated and imposed through a judgment in a
 13 court of competent jurisdiction on an owner of real property within the
 14 city and recorded by the county clerk, as certified by the city's corpo-
 15 ration counsel and have remained unpaid for one year after the final
 16 adjudication and exhaustion of all appeals relating to the imposition of
 17 the fines for a code violation preceding the placement on the city's tax
 18 levy.
 19 3. Minimum amount owed. To qualify for placement on the tax levy the
 20 amount owed for unpaid code violations must be at least five percent of
 21 the amount of the tax assessed value of the property.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04823-02-6

 S. 2321--A 2

 1 4. Levy. Such code violation penalty, cost or fine as set forth in a
 2 copy of the judgment certified by the corporation counsel shall be set
 3 down in the annual tax levy under the heading uncollected fines and
 4 penalties and in accordance with this section shall be levied, enforced
 5 and collected in the same manner, by the same proceedings, at the same
 6 time, under the same penalties and having the same lien upon the proper-
 7 ty assessed as the general city tax and as a part thereof.
 8 5. Notice. The city of Albany shall notify all owners or known inter-
 9 ested parties of record of the placement of the code violations on the
 10 municipal tax levy as uncollected fines and penalties within thirty days
 11 of placement, pursuant to section three hundred eight of the civil prac-
 12 tice law and rules. The notice shall include the date or dates of such
 13 violations, the description of the violations, the amount owed, a state-
 14 ment detailing the foreclosure process that will occur if the violations
 15 remain unpaid, the process to claim any surplus funds and the contact
 16 information for the city's office in charge of receiving pay