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-Z - Hotel or Motel Taxes in Clinton County.

§  1202-z. Hotel or motel taxes in Clinton county. (1) Notwithstanding
any other provisions of law to the contrary, the county  of  Clinton  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 county legislature has or
would have the power and authority  to  impose  upon  persons  occupying
hotel  or  motel rooms in such county. For the purposes of this section,
the term  "hotel"  or  "motel"  shall  mean  and  include  any  facility
providing  lodging  on  an  overnight  basis  and  shall  include  those
facilities designated and commonly known  as  "bed  and  breakfast"  and
"tourist" facilities.
The  rates  of such tax shall not exceed three percent of the per diem
rental rate for each room, provided however, that 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 county treasurer
or  other  fiscal  officers  of Clinton county by such means and in such
manner as other taxes which are now collected and administered  by  such
officers 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 Clinton
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 county treasurer
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  section shall not authorize the imposition of such tax upon
any transaction, by or with any of  the  following  in  accordance  with
section twelve hundred thirty of this article:
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 pursuant
to  this  section  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  transact  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 pursuant to this  section  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)  All  revenues  resulting from the imposition of the tax under the
local laws shall be paid into the treasury of the county of Clinton  and
shall  be  credited and deposited into a special tourism development and
promotion  fund,  thereafter  to  be  allocated  for   publicizing   the
advantages  of the county of Clinton pursuant to subdivision fourteen of
section two hundred twenty-four of the county  law;  provided,  however,
that such local laws shall provide that the county shall:
a.  be  authorized  to  retain up to a maximum of five percent of such
revenue to defer the necessary expenses of the county  in  administering
such tax;
b. endeavor to expend the revenues in such fund in a manner reasonably
intended   to   publicize   the  areas  within  the  county  of  Clinton
commensurate with the amount of revenues generated from such areas; and
c. contract with a tourism promotion agent, for the expenditure of the
revenues in such fund pursuant to subdivision fourteen  of  section  two
hundred  twenty-four of the county law, provided however that the county
of Clinton may terminate such contract and/or enter into other contracts
in  the  event  that  such  tourism  promotion agent dissolves or in the
determination of the board of supervisors of the county of Clinton after
public hearing ceases to adequately perform such contract.
(10) Each enactment of such local law may provide for imposition of  a
hotel  or motel tax for a period of time no longer than three years from
the date of its enactment. Nothing in this section  shall  prohibit  the
adoption and enactment of local laws, pursuant to the provisions of this
section,  upon the expiration of any other local law adopted pursuant to
this section.
(11) If any provision of this section or the  application  thereof  to
any  person or circumstance shall be held invalid, the remainder of this
section and the application  of  such  provision  to  other  persons  or
circumstances shall not be affected thereby.