New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT › Subtitle A - Governor's Office › Chapter I - Executive Orders › Part 8 - Executive Orders (Andrew M. Cuomo) › Section 8.115 - Executive Order No. 115: Extending the Period for Paying Property Taxes in Certain School Districts Within the Counties of Broome, Chenango, Clinton, Delaware, Essex, Franklin, Herkimer, Madison, Montgomery, Niagara, Oneida, Otsego, Schoharie, St. Lawrence, Tioga and Warren

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
WHEREAS, on June 27, 2013 and continuing thereafter, severe
					 storms and flooding disrupted public transportation and utility service, and
					 threatened public health and safety systems within the Counties of Broome,
					 Chenango, Clinton, Delaware, Essex, Franklin, Herkimer, Madison, Montgomery,
					 Oneida, Otsego, Schoharie, St. Lawrence, Tioga and Warren (collectively, the
					 "June 27th Flooding Impacted Counties") and the County of Niagara (together
					 with the June 27th Flooding Impacted Counties, the "Flooding Impacted
					 Counties"); and
WHEREAS, on June 28, 2013 I issued Executive Order Number
					 103 declaring a disaster emergency in the June 27th Flooding Impacted Counties;
					 and
WHEREAS, on July 15, 2013 I issued Executive Order Number
					 108 declaring a disaster emergency in the County of Niagara; and
WHEREAS, property taxes for the 2013 school district year
					 for the Flooding Impacted Counties will be soon due (such date, the "Applicable
					 Property Tax Due Date"); and
WHEREAS, this event, which has caused flooding, damaged
					 public and private property, including homes, apartments and businesses,
					 damaged and downed trees and washed out roadways, will continue to pose a
					 threat to public health and safety and, therefore, make it exceedingly
					 difficult for families to pay their property taxes by the Applicable Property
					 Tax Due Date; and
WHEREAS, Section 925-a  of the Real Property Tax Law
					 authorizes the Governor to retroactively extend the period for paying such
					 taxes without interest or penalty upon request of the chief executive officer
					 of an affected county, city, town, village or school district during a State
					 disaster emergency by up to twenty-one days from the final date such taxes are
					 currently due; and
WHEREAS, a request for such an extension has been received
					 by the Governor's Office on behalf of the following school districts within the
					 Flooding Impacted Counties: Clinton County - AuSable Valley Central School
					 District; Essex County - Elizabethtown-Lewis Central School District and Moriah
					 Central School District; Montgomery County - Fort Plain Central School
					 District; and
WHEREAS, given the difficulties continuing to confront the
					 people of the Flooding Impacted Counties, such an extension is eminently
					 warranted;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State
					 of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 925-a  of the
					 Real Property Tax Law, do hereby retroactively extend the period for paying
					 without interest or penalty the property taxes that are due on or about the
					 Applicable Property Tax Due Date in the Flooding Impacted Counties for
					 twenty-one days from the final date such taxes are currently due.
Signed: Andrew M. Cuomo
Dated: October 7, 2013