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                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                          I N  A S S E M B L Y
                               (PREFILED)
                             January 9, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. MAGEE, BLANKENBUSH, BARRETT, LUPARDO -- read once
  and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
AN  ACT  to  amend the tax law, in relation to providing for a sales tax
  exemption for farm abstracts
  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
  Section  1.  Paragraph 1 of subdivision (c) of section 1105 of the tax
law, as amended by chapter 583 of the laws of 2011, is amended  to  read
as follows:
  (1)  The  furnishing of information by printed, mimeographed or multi-
graphed matter or by duplicating written or printed matter in any  other
manner,  including  the  services  of collecting, compiling or analyzing
information of any kind or nature  and  furnishing  reports  thereof  to
other  persons,  but  excluding  the  furnishing of information which is
personal or individual in nature and which is not or may not be substan-
tially incorporated in reports furnished to other persons, and excluding
the services of advertising or other agents, or other persons acting  in
a  representative capacity, and information services used by newspapers,
electronic news services, radio broadcasters and television broadcasters
in the collection and dissemination of news, and excluding  meteorologi-
cal  services,  AND  EXCLUDING  THE SALE OF AN ABSTRACT OF TITLE TO REAL
PROPERTY TO BE USED FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES TO  EITHER  A  PROSPECTIVE
PURCHASER  OF REAL PROPERTY OR TO AN ATTORNEY REPRESENTING A PROSPECTIVE
PURCHASER.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04930-01-3