S271-2013 - NY Senate Open Legislation - Removes that portion of the town of Chester in the service area of the Albert Wisner memorial public library from such library service area

Removes that portion of the town of Chester in the service area of the Albert Wisner memorial public library from such library service area to end the double taxation of certain town residents.

Sponsor: LARKIN / Committee: LIBRARIES AND EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY
Law Section: Orange County

S271-2013 Actions

Feb 27, 2013: referred to libraries and education technology
Feb 27, 2013: DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
Feb 27, 2013: PASSED SENATE
Feb 12, 2013: ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
Feb 11, 2013: 2ND REPORT CAL.
Feb 5, 2013: 1ST REPORT CAL.43
Jan 9, 2013: REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

S271-2013 Meetings

Local Government: Feb 5, 2013

S271-2013 Calendars

Active List: Feb 27, 2013 , Floor Calendar: Feb 11, 2013 , Floor Calendar: Feb 12, 2013 , Floor Calendar: Feb 27, 2013

S271-2013 Votes

VOTE: COMMITTEE VOTE: - Local Government - Feb 5, 2013

Ayes (8): Martins, Ball, Boyle, Marchione, Ritchie, Gipson, Latimer, O'Brien

VOTE: FLOOR VOTE: - Feb 27, 2013

Ayes (62): Adams, Addabbo, Avella, Bonacic, Boyle, Breslin, Carlucci, DeFrancisco, Diaz, Dilan, Espaillat, Farley, Felder, Flanagan, Fuschillo, Gallivan, Gianaris, Gipson, Golden, Griffo, Grisanti, Hannon, Hassell-Thomps, Hoylman, Kennedy, Klein, Krueger, Lanza, Larkin, Latimer, LaValle, Libous, Little, Marcellino, Marchione, Martins, Maziarz, Montgomery, Nozzolio, O'Brien, O'Mara, Parker, Peralta, Perkins, Ranzenhofer, Ritchie, Rivera, Robach, Sampson, Sanders, Savino, Serrano, Seward, Skelos, Smith, Squadron, Stavisky, Stewart-Cousin, Tkaczyk, Valesky, Young, Zeldin
Excused (1): Ball

S271-2013 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S271

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to remove from
the Albert Wisner memorial public library service area that
portion of the town of Chester, in the county of Orange, which is located
within such district

PURPOSE:
This bill removes that portion of the Town of Chester that is
currently located in the Albert Wisner Memorial Public Library
District. That portion of the Town of Chester would still remain in
the Town of Chester Public Library.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1: This bill removes that portion of the Town of Chester that
is currently in the Albert Wisner Memorial Public Library District.
The boundaries for the Albeit Wisner Memorial Public Library District
are currently the same boundaries as the Warwick Valley Central
School District which includes a portion of the Town of Chester.
Under this bill, properties located roughly in the hamlet of Sugar
Loaf would no longer pay taxes to support the Albert Wisner Library
and would no longer be in its service area. Residents of Sugar Loaf
would still remain in the boundaries of the Town of Chester municipal
library, pay real property taxes to support such library, and obtain
their library services from that library district.

EXISTING LAW:
See above.

JUSTIFICATION:
Under current law, the residents of the hamlet of Sugar Loaf (in the
Town of Chester) pay library taxes to support both the Town of
Chester municipal library and the Albert Wisner Library. This bill
would end the double taxation issue for those residents that are now
obligated to support two different libraries.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2006: A.9215-B Held for consideration in Libraries and Education
Technology
S.8033 Passed Senate

2007-2008: A.3714-A Referred to Libraries and Education Technology
S.1356 Passed Senate

2009-2010: A.2071-A Held for consideration in Libraries and Education
Technology
S.547-A Passed Senate

2011-2012: S.4676 Passed Senate

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None.

EFFECTIVE DATE:


On the first of July next succeeding the date on which it shall have
become law.

S271-2013 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
                                           271
 2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 I N  SENATE
 (PREFILED)
 January 9, 2013
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  LARKIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 

AN ACT to remove from the Albert Wisner memorial public library  service
 area  that  portion  of  the town of Chester, in the county of Orange,
 which is located within such district
 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section 1. Notwithstanding the terms of the resolution, enacted pursu
 ant  to section 255 of the education law, establishing the Albert Wisner
 memorial public library in 1973 or the charter issued in 1979  for  such
 library  by  the board of regents, pursuant to section 216 of the educa
 tion law, no real property in the town of  Chester,  in  the  county  of
 Orange,  shall  be  deemed  to be within the service area of such public
 library. Under no circumstance shall the Warwick Valley  central  school
 district  impose  any  library  tax for the support of the Albert Wisner
 memorial public library upon any parcel of real property in the town  of
 Chester.  For  all  purposes, any real property removed from the service
 area of the Albert Wisner memorial public library pursuant to  this  act
 shall  be  deemed  to  be  within the service area of the Chester public
 library and shall be subject to taxation for the support of the  Chester
 public library.
 

S  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law.
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01359-01-3

S271-2013: Removes that portion of the town of Chester in the service area of the Albert Wisner memorial public library from such library service area