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                                  3291

                       2017-2018 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 20, 2017
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Introduced  by  Sen.  YOUNG  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
  ment Operations

AN ACT to amend the public lands law, in  relation  to  the  payment  of
  state aid on account of certain state lands in the town of New Hudson,
  in the county of Allegany

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. The public lands law is amended by  adding  a  new  section
19-c to read as follows:
  §  19-C.  STATE AID; CERTAIN STATE LANDS IN THE TOWN OF NEW HUDSON. 1.
STATE AID SHALL BE PAYABLE ANNUALLY, AS PROVIDED IN THIS SECTION, TO THE
TOWN OF NEW HUDSON, IN THE  COUNTY  OF  ALLEGANY,  AND  TO  ANY  SPECIAL
DISTRICT,  AS  DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION SIXTEEN OF SECTION ONE HUNDRED TWO
OF THE REAL PROPERTY TAX LAW, WITHIN SUCH TOWN, FOR ANY PARCEL  OF  LAND
OWNED  BY  THE  STATE,  SUBJECT TO THE JURISDICTION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION.
  2. THE STATE AID SO PAYABLE SHALL BE EQUAL TO  THE  TAXES  THAT  WOULD
HAVE  BEEN  IMPOSED  BY  APPLYING  THE  CURRENT TAX RATE OF SUCH TOWN OR
SPECIAL DISTRICT TO THE ASSESSED VALUE OF THE PARCELS OF  LAND  THEREIN,
EXCLUSIVE  OF  IMPROVEMENT,  UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF
ENVIRONMENTAL  CONSERVATION  APPEARING  ON  THE  TOWN  ASSESSMENT   ROLL
COMPLETED  IN  TWO  THOUSAND  SEVENTEEN, WHENEVER ACQUIRED BY THE STATE,
ADJUSTED FOR ANY CHANGE IN LEVEL OF ASSESSMENT.
  3. STATE AID SHALL BE PAYABLE UPON APPLICATION OF THE  TOWN  BOARD  OF
THE  TOWN OF NEW HUDSON ON BEHALF OF SUCH TOWN AND THE SPECIAL DISTRICTS
THEREIN TO THE STATE COMPTROLLER ON A FORM PRESCRIBED BY THE STATE COMP-
TROLLER CONTAINING SUCH  INFORMATION  AS  THE  STATE  COMPTROLLER  SHALL
REQUIRE.
  §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately and the first payment of
state aid shall be based upon assessment rolls completed in 2017.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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                                 3291--B

                       2017-2018 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 20, 2017
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  YOUNG  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
  ment  Operations  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,   ordered
  reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted
  to the  Committee  on  Investigations  and  Government  Operations  in
  accordance  with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said
  committee and committed to  the  Committee  on  Finance  --  committee
  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
  to said committee

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public lands law, in relation to the payment of
  state aid on account of certain state lands in the town of New Hudson,
  in the county of Allegany

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivisions  1 and 2 of section 19-b of the public lands
law, subdivision 1 as added by chapter 260  of  the  laws  of  1980  and
subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 373 of the laws of 1981, are amended
to read as follows:
  1.  State aid shall be payable to any municipal corporation or special
district as such terms are defined by section one  hundred  two  of  the
real  property  tax law and hereinafter collectively referred to in this
section as "taxing authority", when on any assessment roll  the  taxable
assessed  valuation in such taxing authority is decreased in any year by
reason of the transfer of title or possession of  land  or  improvements
thereon  (A)  to  the  state  or  an agency of the state located at West
Valley, Cattaraugus county and theretofore utilized by  the  corporation
known  as  "Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc."; OR (B) TO THE STATE LOCATED IN
THE TOWN OF NEW HUDSON, IN  THE  COUNTY  OF  ALLEGANY,  AND  THERETOFORE
SUBJECT TO THE JURISDICTION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVA-
TION.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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  2.  The  state  aid  payable  to  a  taxing authority pursuant to this
section shall be computed and paid during the first fiscal year  of  any
such  taxing  authority  commencing  on or after January first, nineteen
hundred eighty-one, and during each fiscal year thereafter.  Such  state
aid  shall  in each year be equal to the amount of taxes levied or which
would have been levied by or in behalf of the taxing  authority  against
such  lands  and  the  improvements  thereon on the last assessment roll
finally completed in THE YEAR THAT THE LAND WAS ACQUIRED BY  THE  STATE,
ADJUSTED  FOR ANY CHANGE IN ASSESSMENT, BUT NOT LESS THAN THE ASSESSMENT
ROLL COMPLETED IN nineteen hundred eighty.
  § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and the first  payment  of
state aid shall be based upon assessment rolls completed in 2018.