2023 New York Laws › TAX - Tax › Article 29 - Taxes Authorized for Cities, Counties and School Districts › Part 1 - Authority to Impose Taxes › Sub Part A - Taxes Administered by Cities, Counties and School Districts › 1202-A - Hotel or Motel Taxes in Onondaga County.

§ 1202-a. Hotel or motel taxes in Onondaga county. (1) Notwithstanding
any  other  provisions of law to the contrary, the county of Onondaga is
hereby authorized and empowered to adopt and amend local  laws  imposing
in  such  county  a  tax,  in  addition  to any other tax authorized and
imposed pursuant to this article such as the legislature  has  or  would
have  the  power and authority to impose upon persons occupying hotel or
motel rooms in such county. The rates of such tax shall be seven percent
of the per diem rental rate for each room  provided  however,  such  tax
shall not be applicable to a permanent resident of a hotel or motel. For
the  purposes of this section the term "permanent resident" shall mean a
person occupying any room or rooms in a hotel  or  motel  for  at  least
thirty consecutive days.
(2)  Such  tax  may  be  collected  and  administered  by  the finance
administrator or other fiscal officers of Onondaga county by such  means
and  in  such  manner  as  other  taxes  which  are  now  collected  and
administered by such officers in accordance with the county  charter  or
as otherwise may be provided by such local law.
(3)  Such local laws may provide that any tax imposed shall be paid by
the person liable therefor to the owner  of  the  hotel  or  motel  room
occupied or to the person entitled to be paid the rent or charge for the
hotel  or  motel  room  occupied  for  and  on  account of the county of
Onondaga imposing the tax and that such owner or person entitled  to  be
paid  the  rent or charge shall be liable for the collection and payment
of the tax; and that such owner or person entitled to be paid  the  rent
or  charge  shall  have  the same right in respect to collecting the tax
from the person occupying the hotel or motel  room,  or  in  respect  to
nonpayment  of  the tax by the person occupying the hotel or motel room,
as if the tax were a part of the rent or charge and payable at the  same
time  as  the  rent  or  charge;  provided,  however,  that  the finance
administrator or other fiscal officers of the county, specified in  such
local  law,  shall  be  joined  as  a  party in any action or proceeding
brought to collect the tax by the owner or by the person entitled to  be
paid the rent or charge.
(4)  Such  local  laws  may  provide for the filing of returns and the
payment of the tax on a monthly basis or on the basis of any  longer  or
shorter period of time.
(5)  This  act shall not authorize the imposition of such tax upon any
of the following:
a. The state of New York,  or  any  public  corporation  (including  a
public corporation created pursuant to agreement or compact with another
state  or  the  dominion  of  Canada),  improvement  district  or  other
political subdivision of the state;
b. The United  States  of  America,  insofar  as  it  is  immune  from
taxation;
c.  Any corporation or association, or trust, or community chest, fund
or  foundation  organized  and  operated  exclusively   for   religious,
charitable  or educational purposes, or for the prevention of cruelty to
children or animals, and no part of the net earnings of which inures  to
the  benefit of any private shareholder or individual and no substantial
part of the activities of which is carrying on propaganda, or  otherwise
attempting  to influence legislation; provided, however, that nothing in
this paragraph shall include an organization operated  for  the  primary
purpose  of  carrying  on a trade or business for profit, whether or not
all of its profits are payable to one or more organizations described in
this paragraph.
(6) Any final determination of the amount of any tax payable hereunder
shall be reviewable for error, illegality or unconstitutionality or  any
other  reason  whatsoever by a proceeding under article seventy-eight of

the civil practice law and rules if application therefor is made to  the
supreme  court within thirty days after the giving of the notice of such
final determination, provided, however, that any such  proceeding  under
article  seventy-eight  of the civil practice law and rules shall not be
instituted unless:
a. The amount of any tax sought to be reviewed, with such interest and
penalties thereon as may be provided for by  local  law  or  regulation,
shall  be first deposited and there is filed an undertaking, issued by a
surety company  authorized  to  transmit  business  in  this  state  and
approved by the superintendent of financial services of this state as to
solvency  and responsibility, in such amount as a justice of the supreme
court shall approve to the effect that if such proceeding  be  dismissed
or the tax confirmed the petitioner will pay all costs and charges which
may accrue in the prosecution of such proceeding or;
b.  At  the  option of the petitioner such undertaking may be in a sum
sufficient to cover the taxes, interests and penalties  stated  in  such
determination  plus the costs and charges which may accrue against it in
the prosecution of the proceeding, in which event the  petitioner  shall
not  be required to pay such taxes, interest or penalties as a condition
precedent to the application.
(7) Where any tax  imposed  hereunder  shall  have  been  erroneously,
illegally or unconstitutionally collected and application for the refund
thereof  duly  made  to  the proper fiscal officer or officers, and such
officer or officers shall have made a determination denying such refund,
such determination shall be reviewable by  a  proceeding  under  article
seventy-eight  of  the  civil practice law and rules, provided, however,
that such proceeding is instituted within thirty days after  the  giving
of  the notice of such denial, that a final determination of tax due was
not previously made, and that an undertaking is filed  with  the  proper
fiscal  officer  or  officers in such amount and with such sureties as a
justice of the supreme court shall approve to the effect  that  if  such
proceeding  be  dismissed  or the tax confirmed, the petitioner will pay
all costs and charges which  may  accrue  in  the  prosecution  of  such
proceeding.
(8)  Except  in the case of a wilfully false or fraudulent return with
intent to evade the tax, no assessment of additional tax shall  be  made
after  the  expiration  of  more  than  three years from the date of the
filing of a return, provided, however, that where  no  return  has  been
filed as provided by law the tax may be assessed at any time.
(9)  Revenues  resulting from the imposition of tax authorized by this
act shall be paid into the treasury of the county of Onondaga and  shall
be  credited to and deposited in the general fund of the county; and may
thereafter be  allocated  at  the  discretion  of  the  Onondaga  county
legislature for any county purpose.
(10)  If  any  provision of this act or the application thereof to any
person or circumstance shall be held invalid, the remainder of this  act
and  the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances
shall not be affected thereby.