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2006 New York Code - Board Of Estimate; Power To Cancel Taxes, Assessments And Water Rents.
§ 11-235 Board of estimate; power to cancel taxes, assessments and water rents. The board of estimate, upon the written certificate of the comptroller approving the same, with whom application for relief under this section shall be filed, in its discretion and upon such terms as it may deem proper, by a unanimous vote, may cancel and annul all taxes, assessments and water rents and sales to the city of any or all of the same which now are or may hereafter become a lien against any real estate owned by any corporation, entitled to exemption of such real estate owned by it from local taxation under the provisions of the real property tax law formerly contained in article one, section four, subdivision six of the tax law, provided that all taxes and water rents from which relief is asked be apportioned as of the date such corporation took title to such real estate, and that such taxes and water rents so apportioned to the period before such date, and all assessments which became a lien before such date, be paid. The commissioner of finance shall mark the city's books and rolls of taxes, assessments and water rents in accordance with the determination of the board of estimate in every case in which action shall be taken under the provisions of this section.
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