The New York City Council - File #: Int 1181-2023

• File #: Int 1181-2023
• Version: *
• Name: Penalties in tax exempt projects due to source of income discrimination.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Filed (End of Session)
• Committee: Committee on Finance
• On agenda: 9/14/2023
• Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to penalties in tax exempt projects due to source of income discrimination
• Sponsors: Sandy Nurse, Christopher Marte
• Council Member Sponsors: 2
• Summary: This bill would amend existing law to include source of income discrimination as grounds for a City agency to deny approval of a tax exemption to a housing company, insurance company, redevelopment company, or redevelopment corporation, where such company or corporation was found to have discriminated by the New York State Commission on Human Rights, the New York City Commission on Human Rights, or the Commissioner thereof.

Date	Ver.	Prime Sponsor	Action By	Action	Result
12/31/2023	*	Sandy Nurse	City Council	Filed (End of Session)
9/14/2023	*	Sandy Nurse	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
9/14/2023	*	Sandy Nurse	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No. 1181

By Council Members Nurse and Marte

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to penalties in tax exempt projects due to source of income discrimination

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Section 11-241 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended as follows:

§ 11-241 Discrimination in tax exempt projects. No exemption from taxation, for any project, other than a project hitherto agreed upon or contracted for, shall be [granted]approved by a City agency to a housing company, insurance company, redevelopment company or redevelopment corporation where the New York State Commission on Human Rights, the New York City Commission on Human Rights, or the Commissioner thereof, found that such entity, [which shall] directly or indirectly, refused, [withhold]withheld from, or [deny]denied to any person any of the dwelling or business accommodations in such project or property, or the privileges and services incident to occupancy thereof, on account of the race, color, [or] creed, or lawful source of income of any such person. Any exemption from taxation hereafter granted shall terminate sixty days after a finding by the supreme court of the state of New York that such discrimination is being or has been practiced in such project or property; if within sixty days such discrimination shall have been ended, then the exemption shall not terminate.  As used in this section, “lawful source of income” has the same meaning as set forth in section 8-102.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

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LS #8718

8/4/2023 9:39am