New York S 5168: Authorizes the City of Newburgh to add unpaid housing code violation penalties, costs and fines to such city's annual tax levy

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S05168 Summary:

BILL NOS05168A

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Authorizes the City of Newburgh to add unpaid housing code violation penalties, costs and fines to such city's annual tax levy in accordance with applicable law.

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BILL NOS05168A

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02/19/2025REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

06/09/2025COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

06/09/2025ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1626

06/11/2025PASSED SENATE

06/11/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

06/11/2025referred to real property taxation

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

05/19/20261ST REPORT CAL.1245

05/20/2026AMENDED 5168A

05/20/20262ND REPORT CAL.

05/21/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

05/28/2026PASSED SENATE

05/28/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

05/28/2026referred to real property taxation

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 5168--A
 Cal. No. 1245

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 19, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. ROLISON -- 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 -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to
 first report, amended on first report, ordered to a second report and
 ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of second report

 AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to authorizing
 the city of Newburgh to add unpaid housing code violation penalties,
 costs and fines to such city's 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, the city of Newburgh is hereby authorized to
 6 collect any unpaid housing, building and fire code violation penalties,
 7 costs and fines through placement by the city's director of finance,
 8 treasurer, or other public official charged with the duties of oversee-
 9 ing tax collections on the city's annual tax levy in accordance with the
 10 provisions of this section.
 11 2. Eligibility. In order to be eligible for placement on the munici-
 12 pality's annual tax levy such unpaid code violation penalties, costs and
 13 fines shall have been adjudicated and imposed through a judgment in a
 14 court of competent jurisdiction on an owner of real property within the
 15 city and recorded by the county clerk, as certified by the city's corpo-
 16 ration counsel to the director of finance, treasurer or other public
 17 official charged with the duties of overseeing tax collections and have
 18 remained unpaid for one year after the final adjudication and exhaustion

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01583-02-6

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 1 of all appeals relating to the imposition of the fines for a code
 2 violation preceding the placement on the city's tax levy.
 3 3. Minimum amount owed. To qualify for placement on the tax levy the
 4 amount owed for unpaid code violations must be at least five percent of
 5 the amount of the tax assessed value of the property.
 6 4. Levy. Such code violation penalty, cost or fine as set forth in a
 7 copy of the judgment certified by the city's corporation counsel to the
 8 director of finance, treasurer or other public official charged with the
 9 duties of overseeing tax collections shall be set down in the annual tax
 10 levy under the heading uncollected fines and penalties and in accordance
 11 with this section shall be levied, enforced and collected in the same
 12 manner, by the same proceedings, at the same time, under the same penal-
 13 ties and having the same lien upon the property assess