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 8.70 - Executive order no. 70: extending the period for paying school district taxes in certain school districts within the counties of nassau and orange

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 Orange;
					 and
WHEREAS, school district taxes for the 2012-2013 school
					 year are currently due on or about November 10, 2012, in the school districts
					 located within Nassau County; and
WHEREAS, school district taxes for the 2012-2013 school
					 year were due on or about October 31, 2012, in the school districts located
					 within Orange County; and
WHEREAS, Section 925-a  of the Real Property Tax Law
					 authorizes the Governor to 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
					 below-listed counties: Nassau County:
(1) Manhasset Union Free School District,
(2) Herricks Union Free School
				  District,
(3) Mineola Union Free
				  School District,
(4) Carle Place
				  Union Free School District,
(5)
				  Seaford Union Free School District,
(6) Bethpage Union Free School District,
(7) Port Washington Union Free
				  School District,
(8) Hempstead
				  Union Free School District,
(9)
				  Levittown Union Free School District,
(10) Bellmore Union Free School District,
(11) Freeport Union Free School
				  District,
(12) Hewlett-Woodmere
				  Public School District,
(13)
				  Island Trees Union Free School District,
(14) North Merrick Union Free School
				  District,
(15) Westbury Union Free
				  School District,
(16) Long Beach
				  City School District,
(17)
				  Uniondale Public Schools,
(18) East
				  Meadow Union Free School District,
(19) North Bellmore Union Free School
				  District,
(20) West Hempstead Union
				  Free School District,
(21)
				  Hicksville Public School District,
(22) Wantagh Union Free School District,
(23) Great Neck Union Free School
				  District,
(24) Syosset Central
				  School District,
(25) Locust
				  Valley Central School District,
(26) Plainview-Old Bethpage Central School
				  District,
(27) Oyster Bay-East
				  Norwich Central School District,
(28) Jericho Union Free School District,
(29) Plainedge Union Free School
				  District,
(30) Farmingdale Union
				  Free School District,
(31)
				  Massapequa Public School District,
(32) Amityville Union Free School District,
(33) Cold Spring Harbor School
				  District, and
(34) Oceanside Union
				  Free School District; Orange County:
(35) Enlarged City of Middletown 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 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; and
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 October 31, 2012, in the aforementioned school district within
					 Orange County twenty-one days from the final date such taxes are currently
					 due;
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 9,
					 2012