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Assembly Bill A2030

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to eliminating the special taxing jurisdiction's option to apply agricultural assessments regardless of location or time of establishment

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2017-A2030 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Agriculture
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§305 & 306, Ag & Mkts L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A7695
2019-2020: A2464

2017-A2030 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to eliminating the special taxing jurisdiction's option to apply agricultural assessments regardless of location or time of establishment.

2017-A2030 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2030
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 17, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. FAHY -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Agriculture
 
 AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation  to  elimi-
   nating  the special taxing jurisdiction's option to apply agricultural
   assessments regardless of location or time of establishment

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 305 of the agriculture and markets
 law,  as  amended by chapter 590 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read
 as follows:
   6. Use of assessment for certain purposes. The  governing  body  of  a
 fire, fire protection, or ambulance district for which a benefit assess-
 ment  or  a  special ad valorem levy is made, [may] SHALL adopt a resol-
 ution to provide that the assessment determined pursuant to  subdivision
 one  of  this  section  for  such property shall be used for the benefit
 assessment or special ad valorem levy of such fire, fire protection,  or
 ambulance district.
   §  2. Subdivision 5 of section 306 of the agriculture and markets law,
 as added by chapter 568 of the laws of  1996,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   5.  Use  of  assessment  for certain purposes. The governing body of a
 water, lighting, sewer, sanitation, fire, fire protection, or  ambulance
 district  for whose benefit a special assessment or a special ad valorem
 levy is imposed, [may] SHALL adopt a  resolution  to  provide  that  the
 assessments  determined  pursuant to subdivision one of this section for
 property within the district shall be used for the special assessment or
 special ad valorem levy of such special district.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02664-01-7

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