
In addition, for those employees qualifying as described above, fees charged for department-approved classes offered for employees to assist them in passing this exam shall be reimbursed on a one-time-only basis.

The City shall make a reasonable effort to make City trucks or equipment available for skill tests. Employees may make application for such HME on City time and shall be reimbursed for the fees associated with the background records check and fingerprinting if such endorsement is required by the job.

Employees required to have a Hazardous Material endorsement (HME) are required per Federal regulations to submit to a background records check and fingerprinting. If an employee is covered by a City medical plan that includes coverage for physical exams, the employee shall have the exam form completed through the plan's providers (Group Health or Aetna) or shall seek reimbursement through the medical plan. Employees shall be notified of clinics offering the exam at this reimbursement rate. The City will pay as a maximum amount, the rates charged by City identified clinics for the physical exam.
#Icap abatement license#
The physical exam required to obtain or renew the license may be done on City time.
#Icap abatement driver#
For commercial and industrial construction outside of special commercial construction areas there appears to be no specific schedule for the retail portion of the construction.Commercial Driver’s License If the job responsibilities of the classification of work to which an employee is regularly appointed or is assigned on an out-of-class basis involve the driving of vehicles requiring the driver to have a state Commercial Driver’s License (CDL), fees charged by the state for acquiring the license and all required endorsements shall be reimbursed by the City upon the employee having successfully attained the CDL or CDL renewal. For renovation work in the specially designated renovation areas of Manhattan, there is no ICAP benefit available for the retail space greater than 5% of the project. ICAP benefits for industrial construction work or commercial construction work in a special construction area are calculated separately for the retail portion of a project where the retail portion is greater than 10%. Manhattan below 59th Street, excluding the Garment District and Lower Manhattan, is subject to a ten year benefit schedule. Lower Manhattan and the Garment District are eligible for a tax abatement benefit of up to twelve years. The benefits available for commercial renovations are uniform in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island, while in Manhattan the benefits vary depending on the project’s is location. While the program offers an abatement of up to twenty-five years, the majority of the projects meet requirements for ten or twelve year abatements.įor new construction, ICAP is available in all boroughs with a portion of central Manhattan excluded (between the centerline of 59th Street and the centerline of 96th Street). ICAP benefits vary depending on whether the project is new construction or a renovation and whether the property will contain any retail uses. Covered sections include Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and the Bronx and some sections of Manhattan. These eligible projects qualify for an abatement of real property taxes for periods of up to twenty-five years. The New York City Department of Finance administers the Program and is responsible for issuing Certificates of Eligibility for qualified projects.Įligible projects include industrial and commercial buildings that are built, modernized, rehabilitated, expanded or otherwise physically improved in “covered” sections of New York City. In addition, ICAP is much easier to administer, since it is a tax abatement program as compared to ICIP’s reduction in tax rates. ICIP contained an expensive loophole for utilities that was eliminated under ICAP. ICAP was a welcome change from ICIP, which was considered an inefficient program and a drain on the City’s budget. The New York State Industrial and Commercial Abatement Program (the “ ICAP” or the “ Program“) was established to encourage the development and renovation of commercial and industrial properties in New York City. ICAP replaced an existing program- the New York State Industrial and Commercial Incentive Program (“ICIP”).

New York State Industrial Commercial Abatement Program
