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                                   5038
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 6, 2017
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 Introduced by M. of A. MAGEE, BLANKENBUSH, BARRETT, LUPARDO, JEAN-PIERRE
   -- 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.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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