L.L. 1997/032

Enactment date: 5/28/1997

Int. No. 962

By Council Members Berman and Fisher (By request of the Mayor); also Council Members Harrison, Perez and Wooten

A Local Law in relation to prepayment of real estate taxes

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any installment of taxes on real estate for the fiscal year beginning July first, nineteen hundred ninety-seven that becomes due and payable prior to January first, nineteen hundred ninety-eight, may be paid twenty-five days prior to the date on which the first installment for such fiscal year would otherwise become due and payable or at any time thereafter and; provided that any installment that becomes due and payable prior to January first, nineteen hundred ninety-eight, is paid in full not later than June twelfth, nineteen hundred ninety-seven, and provided, further, that all prior installments shall have been paid or shall be paid at the same time, a discount shall be allowed from the date of payment of such installment to and including the fifteenth day of the calendar month in which such installment would otherwise become due and payable at the rate of five percent per annum.

§ 2. Notwithstanding anything in section one of this local law to the contrary, the discount allowed pursuant to such section shall not be allowed to and including the fifteenth day of the calendar month in which such installment would otherwise become due and payable if the real property with respect to which such installment is paid is described in paragraph b of subdivision four of section fifteen hundred nineteen of the New York city charter. With respect to real property described in paragraph b of subdivision four of such section, the discount shall be allowed only to and including the date on which such installment of taxes would otherwise become due and payable.

§ 3. The discount provided for in subdivision three of section fifteen hundred nineteen of the New York city charter shall apply to all prepayments made in accordance with the terms of that subdivision after June twelfth, nineteen hundred ninety-seven.

§ 4. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provisions of Local Law No. 21 for the year 1997, for the purpose of implementing the provisions of this local law, the commissioner of finance shall be authorized to complete the assessment rolls using estimated rates and to collect the sums therein mentioned according to law in accordance with subdivision a of section 1516-a of the New York city charter and, where the commissioner of finance has exercised the authority granted by subdivision a of section 1516-a of such charter, the provisions of subdivision b of section 1516-a of such charter shall apply.

§ 5. This local law shall take effect immediately.

L.L. 1997/033

Enactment date: 5/30/1997

Int. No. 647-A

By Council Members Pinkett, Foster, the Speaker (Council Member Vallone), Duane, Fisher, Watkins, Powell IV, Pagan, Rivera, Robinson, Freed, Marshall, Eisland and Perez; also Council Members Harrison, Leffler, Sabini, DiBrienza, Fields, Cruz, Lasher and Linares

A Local Law to amend the New York City Charter in relation to the depositing of city funds in banks doing business in Burma, and to amend the administrative code of the City of New York in relation to city contracts with entities that do business in Burma

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Declaration of Legislative findings and intent. In 1990, after a free election in Burma in which Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) won 80% of the Parliamentary seats, the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) arrested, murdered and exiled such elected members of the NLD and annulled the election. Aung San Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest. Since then, thousands of civilians have been killed, arrested, tortured or forced out of Burma as a result of brutal government repression. The SLORC has conducted extensive military operations against ethnic groups within Burma. Additionally, the SLORC has refused to implement recommendations adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in December, 1993 and the United Nations Human Rights Commission in March, 1994.

The United States has already imposed a ban on new U.S. investment in Burma, suspended all economic and military aid to Burma, imposed an arms embargo against the country, ended some low tariffs that had applied to its products and blocked the international Monetary Fund and the World Bank from making loans to Burma.

The system of oppression by the SLORC is illegal and contrary to international laws and covenants. It being morally repugnant to the citizens of the City of New York and the New York City Council, the City of New York as an expression of moral outrage at the SLORC' s continuing human rights violations in Burma does hereby set forth a municipal policy restricting its business with banks and companies doing business in Burma.

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[Consolidated provisions are not included in this Appendix A]

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§ 5. If any provision of this local law or application thereof is held invalid, the remainder of this local law and the application thereof to the· other persons or circumstances shall not be affected by such holding and shall remain in full force and effect.

§ 6. No bank shall be denied designation pursuant to section three of this local law because of any action taken prior to the effective date of this local law.

§ 7. This local law shall take effect forty-five days after its adoption and shall apply to contracts for which a request for bids or proposals is issued on and after the effective date.

L.L. 1997/035

Enactment date: 5/30/1997

Int. No. 932

By Council Member Duane; also Council Member Wooten

A Local Law in relation to a street name, Joe Horvath Street, Borough of Manhattan

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. The following street name is hereby designated as hereafter indicated.

 

New Name	Present Name	Limits
Joe Horvath Street	West 52nd Street	between 10th Avenue and 11th Avenue

 

§ 2. This local law shall take effect immediately.