Bill Text: NY A02128 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for the payment of state aid to the town of Ashford, in the county of Cattaraugus, for state lands in such town.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - referred to real property taxation [A02128 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02128-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2128

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 23, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. J. M. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Real Property Taxation

        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 Ashford, in
          the county of Cattaraugus

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 19-b of  the  public  lands
     2  law,  subdivision  1  as  added  by  chapter 260 of the laws of 1980 and
     3  subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 373 of the laws of 1981, are amended
     4  to read as follows:
     5    1. State aid shall be payable to any municipal corporation or  special
     6  district  as  such  terms  are defined by section one hundred two of the
     7  real property tax law and hereinafter collectively referred to  in  this
     8  section  as  "taxing authority", when on any assessment roll the taxable
     9  assessed valuation in such taxing authority is decreased in any year  by
    10  reason  of  the  transfer of title or possession of land or improvements
    11  thereon (a) to the state or an agency  of  the  state  located  at  West
    12  Valley,  Cattaraugus  county and theretofore utilized by the corporation
    13  known as "Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc."; or (b) to the state  located  in
    14  the  town  of  Ashford,  in  the  county of Cattaraugus, and theretofore
    15  subject to the jurisdiction of the state or any agency thereof.
    16    2. The state aid payable  to  a  taxing  authority  pursuant  to  this
    17  section  shall  be computed and paid during the first fiscal year of any
    18  such taxing authority commencing on or  after  January  first,  nineteen
    19  hundred  eighty-one,  and during each fiscal year thereafter. Such state
    20  aid shall in each year be equal to the amount of taxes levied  or  which
    21  would  have  been levied by or in behalf of the taxing authority against
    22  such lands and the improvements thereon  on  the  last  assessment  roll
    23  finally  completed  in the year that the land was acquired by the state,

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  adjusted for any change in assessment, but not less than the  assessment
     2  roll completed in nineteen hundred eighty.
     3    §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately and the first payment of
     4  state aid shall be based upon assessment rolls completed in 2022.