Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 12, March 20, 2024
Tax Law, § 253-b
(a)
(1)
Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (2) of this subdivision, when real
property encumbered by the lien of a credit line mortgage described in section
647.4
of this Part is sold or transferred and the lien of the credit line mortgage
remains outstanding and is not to be satisfied as a result of the sale or
transfer, the taxes described in Part 642 of this Title are imposed upon the
recording of an instrument evidencing such a sale or transfer. The measure of
the tax is the maximum principal amount specified in the credit line mortgage
on the date when the instrument evidencing the sale or transfer is recorded, as
such amount may have been increased or decreased by any instrument recorded
evidencing such increase or decrease in the maximum principal amount specified
in the credit line mortgage.
(2)
The taxes described in paragraph (1) of this subdivision are not imposed upon
the recording of an instrument evidencing any of the following transfers:
(i) a transfer of other than a fee simple
interest;
(ii) a transfer of a fee
simple interest to a person or persons who held a fee simple interest in the
real property immediately prior to the transfer;
(iii) a transfer of a fee simple interest to
a person or persons related by blood, marriage or adoption to the original
obligor or to one or more of the original obligors (hereinafter "a related
person"); or to any person or entity where 50 percent or more of the beneficial
interest in such real property after the transfer is held by the transferor or
such related person or persons (as in the case of a transfer to a trustee for
the benefit of a minor or the transfer to a trust for the benefit of the
transferor); and
(iv) a transfer to
a trustee in bankruptcy, a receiver, assignee or other officer of a court;
provided, however, that a subsequent transfer of real property subject to a
credit line mortgage by any individual specified in this subparagraph is
subject to tax as described in paragraph (1) of this subdivision upon the
recording of the instrument evidencing the transfer unless such subsequent
transfer is exempt under some other paragraph of this subdivision or such
recording is exempt under some other provision of article 11 of the Tax Law or
these regulations.
(b) When a claim for exemption from the taxes
is made pursuant to subparagraph (a)(2)(ii), (iii), or (iv) of this section, a
statement of the facts supporting such claim shall be made pursuant to
procedures and on a form prescribed by the commissioner.
(c) No instrument evidencing a sale or
transfer of real property may be recorded unless:
(1) the tax described in subdivision (a) of
this section arising from such sale or transfer is paid; or
(2) the appropriate statement required by
subdivision (b) of this section is made.
(d)
(1) The
recording officer shall indorse upon the deed or other instrument evidencing
the sale or transfer of the real property which causes the taxes described in
subdivision (a) of this section to be imposed a receipt for the amount of taxes
so paid or note the payment in some other manner which provides a public record
of such payment.
(2) All procedures
for the collection of unpaid mortgage recording taxes, interest and penalties
for nonpayment of the taxes, apply in the case of taxes imposed with respect to
a credit line mortgage described in this section.
(e) Payment of taxes described in this
section shall apply to each sale or transfer of real property subject to a
credit line mortgage, except as provided in paragraph (a)(2) of this section,
regardless of whether such taxes had been paid on a previous sale or transfer
of such real property.