Bill Text: NY A02201 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs state aid to be payable to any municipal corporation or special district that contains land in the counties of Cayuga, Seneca and Wayne comprising the northern Montezuma wildlife management area.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-15 - referred to real property taxation [A02201 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A02201-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2201

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 15, 2025
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. MANKTELOW, DeSTEFANO, MILLER, SMULLEN -- 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 state lands in the counties of Cayuga, Seneca
          and Wayne comprising the northern Montezuma wildlife management area

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

     1    Section  1.  The  public  lands law is amended by adding a new section
     2  19-c to read as follows:
     3    § 19-c. State aid; state lands comprising the northern Montezuma wild-
     4  life management area.   1. State  aid  shall  be  payable  annually,  as
     5  provided  in  this  section,  to  any  municipal  corporation or special
     6  district, as such terms are defined in section one hundred  two  of  the
     7  real  property  tax law and hereinafter collectively referred to as "tax
     8  district", that contains land in the  counties  of  Cayuga,  Seneca  and
     9  Wayne  comprising  the northern Montezuma wildlife management area owned
    10  by the state and under the jurisdiction of the  department  of  environ-
    11  mental conservation.
    12    2.  The  state  aid  so payable shall be equal to the taxes that would
    13  have been imposed by applying the current tax rate for the tax  district
    14  to  the  assessment  of  the land in the district, exclusive of improve-
    15  ments, under the jurisdiction of the department of environmental conser-
    16  vation appearing on the appropriate town assessment  roll  completed  in
    17  two  thousand  three,  whenever  acquired by the state, adjusted for any
    18  change in level of assessment.
    19    3. State aid shall be payable upon application of the county treasurer
    20  on behalf of the tax districts  to  the  state  comptroller  on  a  form
    21  prescribed  by  the state comptroller containing such information as the
    22  state comptroller shall require.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and the first  payment  of
    24  state aid shall be based upon assessment rolls completed in 2025.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01871-01-5