Bill Text: NY A10718 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Increases the amount the town of Southold, county of Suffolk, may appropriate for the Orient mosquito district from eighty thousand dollars to one hundred twenty thousand dollars.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2010-09-17 - signed chap.503 [A10718 Detail]
Download: New_York-2009-A10718-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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S. 7503 A. 10718
S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y
April 16, 2010
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IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered print-
ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Govern-
ment
IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. ALESSI -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Local Governments
AN ACT to amend chapter 246 of the laws of 1916 relating to the extermi-
nation of mosquitoes and the establishment of districts therefor, in
relation to authorization for the amount of the annual appropriation
by the town of Southold for the Orient mosquito district
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Section 1 of chapter 246 of the laws of 1916 relating to
2 the extermination of mosquitoes and the establishment of districts
3 therefor, as amended by chapter 496 of the laws of 2002, is amended to
4 read as follows:
5 Section 1. The town board of any town in the county of Suffolk may
6 establish one or more districts for the purposes of this act within the
7 town and outside the boundaries of any incorporated village on the peti-
8 tion of a majority of the owners of taxable real property in the
9 proposed district. The petition must be signed by the petitioners and
10 acknowledged in the same manner as a deed to be recorded. Such petition,
11 accompanied with a map showing the boundaries of the proposed district,
12 shall be filed with the town clerk. If any such district be established,
13 the town board shall thereafter include in the annual budget of taxes to
14 be levied by the board of supervisors a sum not exceeding three thousand
15 dollars except that in the town of Southold, the town board shall there-
16 after include in its annual budget for the Orient mosquito district,
17 established pursuant to this chapter, a sum not exceeding [eighty] ONE
18 HUNDRED TWENTY thousand dollars for the extermination of mosquitoes in
19 such district, which sum shall be levied by such board of supervisors
20 upon the property subject to taxation in the district as so established.
21 ANY INCREASE IN SUCH SUM MADE PURSUANT TO A CHAPTER OF THE LAWS OF TWO
22 THOUSAND TEN WHICH AMENDED THIS SECTION SHALL BE SUBJECT TO A PERMISSIVE
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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S. 7503 2 A. 10718
1 REFERENDUM BY THE AFFIRMATIVE VOTE OF ELIGIBLE VOTERS IN THE ORIENT
2 MOSQUITO DISTRICT. For the purpose of the levying of such tax, the town
3 board shall apportion the same pro rata upon such taxable property and
4 transmit a certified statement thereof to the board of supervisors. Such
5 apportionment shall be on the basis of the valuation of such property as
6 fixed by the last preceding assessment roll of the town. After the boun-
7 daries of such district shall have been established, if any farm or lot
8 or the real property of a corporation or joint stock association shall
9 have been divided by any such boundary line, it shall be the duty of the
10 town assessors, after fixing the valuation of the whole of such real
11 property as now required by the law, to determine what portion of such
12 valuation is on account of that part of such real property lying within
13 such district.
14 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
