File #: Int 1225-2018    Version: Name: Collection and maintenance of contact information of real property owners.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Finance
On agenda: 11/14/2018
Enactment date: 10/24/2020 Law number: 2020/105
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the collection and maintenance of contact information of real property owners
Sponsors: Daniel Dromm , Kalman Yeger , Ben Kallos, Margaret S. Chin
Council Member Sponsors: 4
Summary: This local law would require the Department of Finance (DOF) to make best efforts to collect the name, telephone number, and email address of all owners of real property and, once such information is received, or equivalent information of an individual authorized to receive communications regarding the property on behalf of the owner. The legislation would require that DOF, at a minimum, solicit the contact information on hard copy and online forms, applications, and other documents created by the department for submission by a property owner related to the recording of deed- or mortgage-related documents, or the administration of real property personal tax exemption programs, the tax lien sale, the real property transfer tax, or the tax on mortgages. Once received DOF must ensure that such contact information is maintained in a computer database used by the Department for purposes of administering the real property tax.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1225-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 1225, 3. Int. No. 1225, 4. November 14, 2018 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 11-14-2018, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - November 14, 2018, 7. Committee Report 9/17/19, 8. Hearing Testimony 9/17/19, 9. Hearing Transcript 9/17/19, 10. Proposed Int. No. 1225-A - 9/17/20, 11. Committee Report 9/23/20, 12. Hearing Transcript 9/23/20, 13. September 23, 2020 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 14. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-23-20, 15. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - September 23, 2020, 16. Int. No. 1225-A (FINAL), 17. Fiscal Impact Statement, 18. Legislative Documents - Letter to the Mayor, 19. Local Law 105
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Int. No. 1225-A

 

By Council Members Dromm, Yeger, Kallos and Chin

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the collection and maintenance of contact information of real property owners

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 11 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 11-143 to read as follows:

§ 11-143 Contact information of real property owners. The department shall make best efforts to collect the name, telephone number, and email address of every owner of real property in the city, or where such information is not available, the name, telephone number, and email address of an individual authorized to receive communications regarding the real property on behalf of such owner. Such best efforts shall include, at a minimum, soliciting the above-listed contact information on hard copy and online forms, applications, and other documents created by the department for submission by a property owner related to the recording of deed-related or mortgage-related documents, as such terms are defined in section 7-628 of this code, or the administration of real property personal tax exemption programs, the tax lien sale, the real property transfer tax, or the tax on mortgages. Upon receipt of any of the contact information described above, the department shall ensure that any computer system or database used by the department for the purpose of maintaining or compiling information about property owners or otherwise administering the real property tax contains such information.

§2. This local law takes effect July 1, 2021.

 

 

 

 

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