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 8.74 - Executive order no. 74: extending the period for paying school district taxes in certain school districts within the counties of nassau and rockland

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
WHEREAS, on October 26, 2012, I issued Executive Order
					 Number 47, declaring a disaster emergency in all 62 counties in the State of
					 New York; and
WHEREAS, beginning on October 29, 2012, and continuing
					 thereafter, Hurricane Sandy brought damaging winds and torrential rainfall,
					 causing record flooding and severe storm surge throughout the State, severely
					 devastating numerous counties, including the counties of Nassau and Rockland;
					 and
WHEREAS, school district taxes for the 2012-2013 school
					 year were due on or about November 10, 2012, in the school districts located
					 within Nassau County; and
WHEREAS, one installment of school district taxes for the
					 2012-2013 school year was due on or about November 5, 2012, for the
					 Haverstraw-Stony Point Central School District, located within Rockland County;
					 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, as a result of ongoing disruptions caused by
					 Hurricane Sandy, certain school districts within Nassau and Orange Counties
					 requested an extension of the period for paying school district taxes otherwise
					 due on or about, respectively, October 31, 2012, and November 10, 2012, and
					 such extension was granted by Executive Order Number 70, issued on November 9,
					 2012; and
WHEREAS, requests for such an extension have also been
					 received by the Governor's Office on behalf of the following school districts
					 within the below-listed counties: Nassau County:
(1) East Williston Union Free School
				  District;
(2) Roslyn Union Free
				  School District;
(3) Lawrence
				  Union Free School District;
(4)
				  Franklin Square Union Free School District;
(5) New Hyde Park- Garden City Park Union
				  Free School District;
(6) Malverne
				  Union Free School District;
(7)
				  Floral Park-Bellerose Union Free School District;
(8) Elmont Union Free School District;
(9) Lynbrook Union Free School
				  District;
(10) North Shore Central
				  School District;
(11) Valley
				  Stream Union Free School District 24;
(12) Valley Stream Union Free School District
				  13;
(13) Valley Stream Union Free
				  School District 30;
(14) Baldwin
				  Union Free School District;
(15)
				  Garden City Union Free School District;
(16) Rockville Centre Union Free School
				  District;
(17) Island Park Union
				  Free School District; Rockland County:
(18) Haverstraw-Stony Point Central School
				  District; and
WHEREAS, given the difficulties continuing to confront the
					 people of the aforementioned 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 school district taxes that are due on or about
					 November 10, 2012, in the aforementioned school districts within Nassau County
					 for twenty-one days from the final date such taxes are currently due;
FURTHER, 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 school district taxes that were due
					 on or about November 5, 2012, in the aforementioned school district within
					 Rockland County twenty-one days from the final date such taxes are currently
					 due; and
FURTHER, this Executive Order may be revised and amended to
					 extend the period for paying school taxes for additional school districts
					 within the counties adversely affected by Hurricane Sandy.
Signed: Andrew M. CuomoDated: November 13,
					 2012