New York A 11470: 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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A11470 Summary:

BILL NOA11470 

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SAME ASSAME AS S02321-A

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SPONSORRules (Romero)

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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 NOA11470 

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05/20/2026referred to real property taxation

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 11470

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 20, 2026
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 Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Romero) --
 read once and referred to the Committee on Real Property Taxation

 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.
 22 4. Levy. Such code violation penalty, cost or fine as set forth in a
 23 copy of the judgment certified by the corporation counsel shall be set
 24 down in the annual tax levy under the heading uncollected fines and
 25 penalties and in accordance with this section shall be levied, enforced
 26 and collected in the same manner, by the same proceedings, at the same

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04823-03-6

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 1 time, under the same penalties and having the same lien upon the proper-
 2 ty assessed as the general city tax and as a part thereof.
 3 5. Notice. The city of Albany shall notify all owners or known inter-
 4 ested parties of record of the placement of the code violations on the
 5 municipal tax levy as uncollected fines and penalties within thirty days
 6 of placement, pursuant to section three hundred eight of the civil prac-
 7 tice law and rules. The notice shall include the date or dates of such
 8 violations, the description of the violations, the amount owed, a state-
 9 ment detailing the foreclosure process that will occur if the violations
 10 remain unpaid, the process to claim any surplus funds and the contact
 11 information for the city's office in charge of receiving payments.
 12 6. Tax year. Any unpaid code violations shall be placed on the tax
 13 roll the city of Albany is currently in and shall not be placed on a
 14 list, roll or levy of delinquent taxes.
 15 7. Owner-occupied. Notwithstanding any other applicable provisions of
 16 law, nothing in this section shall be applied to a residential dwelling
 17 that is owner-occupied or is the primary residence of a homeowner.
 18 8. Tenants. Prior to the placement of any property with unpaid code
 19 violations on the tax levy, the city