Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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May 15, 2014 |
referred to agriculture |
Senate Bill S7458
2013-2014 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Agriculture Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2013-S7458 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Agriculture
- Law Section:
- Agriculture and Markets Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §§305 & 306, Ag & Mkts L
2013-S7458 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S7458 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to eliminating the special taxing jurisdiction's option of whether to apply agricultural assessments, regardless of location or time of establishment PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: To make uniform across all munici- palities the application of these special agricultural assessments and ad valorem SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Section 1 amends Subdivision 6 of Section 305 of the agriculture and markets law by replacing may, an option, to shall, a requirement for the benefit assessments of fire, fire protection, or ambulance districts Section 2 amends Subdivision 5 of Section 306 of the agriculture and markets law by replacing may, an option, to shall, a requirement for the benefit assessments of fire, fire protection, or ambulance districts Section 3 includes the effective date JUSTIFICATION: Currently, there are thousands of units of local govern- ment that apply special agricultural assessments in an inconsistent fashion - this legislation will ensure that the agricultural assessment
2013-S7458 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 7458 I N S E N A T E May 15, 2014 ___________ Introduced by Sen. TKACZYK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to elimi- nating the special taxing jurisdiction's option of whether to apply agricultural assessments, regardless of location or time of establish- ment THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 305 of the agriculture and markets law, as amended by chapter 590 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows: 6. Use of assessment for certain purposes. The governing body of a fire, fire protection, or ambulance district for which a benefit assess- ment or a special ad valorem levy is made, [may] SHALL adopt a resol- ution to provide that the assessment determined pursuant to subdivision one of this section for such property shall be used for the benefit assessment or special ad valorem levy of such fire, fire protection, or ambulance district. S 2. Subdivision 5 of section 306 of the agriculture and markets law, as added by chapter 568 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows: 5. Use of assessment for certain purposes. The governing body of a water, lighting, sewer, sanitation, fire, fire protection, or ambulance district for whose benefit a special assessment or a special ad valorem levy is imposed, [may] SHALL adopt a resolution to provide that the assessments determined pursuant to subdivision one of this section for property within the district shall be used for the special assessment or special ad valorem levy of such special district. S 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD15059-02-4
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