Section 284-B. Local tax on leaded motor fuel by a city of one million or more  


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  • (a)  Any city in the state having a population of one million  or  more,  acting  through  its local legislative body, is hereby authorized
      and empowered to adopt and amend local laws imposing in any  such  city,
      an excise tax, at the rate of one cent per gallon, upon motor fuel which
      contains one-half gram or more of tetra ethyl lead, tetra methyl lead or
      any  other  lead  alkyls per gallon, sold within or for sale within such
      city by a distributor.  A tax imposed pursuant to the authority of  this
      section shall be administered and collected by the tax commission in the
      same  manner as the taxes imposed by this article.  Except for paragraph
      (d) of subdivision three of section two hundred eighty-nine-c,  all  the
      provisions  of  this article shall apply with respect to the tax imposed
      pursuant to the authority of this section so far as such provisions  can
      be  made  applicable  to  the  tax  authorized by this section with such
      limitation as set forth in this article and such modification as may  be
      necessary in order to adapt such language to the local tax authorized by
      this section.  The state tax commission is hereby empowered to make such
      provisions  as  it  deems  necessary  for  the  joint administration and
      collection of the state and local taxes imposed and authorized  by  this
      article.    The  comptroller,  after  reserving  the  reimbursement fund
      provided by subdivision two of section two hundred eighty-nine-d of this
      chapter, and after reserving a sum for reasonable costs of the state tax
      commission in administering, collecting and distributing such tax shall,
      on or before the tenth day of each month, pay all taxes collected  under
      this section, to the commissioner of finance of the city of New York for
      the use of such city.
        (b)    A  local  law  imposing taxes pursuant to the authority of this
      section or repealing or suspending such taxes must go into  effect  only
      on  the  first  day  of  a  calendar month.   No such local law shall be
      effective unless a certified copy of such law is  mailed  by  registered
      mail  to the state tax commission at its office in Albany at least sixty
      days prior to the date it is to become  effective.    However,  the  tax
      commission,  by  resolution, may waive and reduce such sixty day minimum
      notice requirement to a mailing of such  certified  copy  by  registered
      mail  within  a  period  of  not  less  than  thirty  days prior to such
      effective date if it deems such action to be consistent with its  duties
      under this section.  Certified copies of any local law described in this
      section  shall also be filed with the city clerk, the secretary of state
      and the state comptroller within five days after the date it is enacted.