Bill Text: NY S00847 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Increases from 50 to 100 acres, the acreage of farm woodland that qualifies as land used in agricultural production for agricultural assessment purposes.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-05-08 - referred to agriculture [S00847 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S00847-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        847--A
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 5, 2011
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by Sens. YOUNG, BRESLIN, O'MARA, RANZENHOFER, RITCHIE, VALE-
         SKY -- (at request of the Legislative Commission on  Rural  Resources)
         -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
         the  Committee on Agriculture -- recommitted to the Committee on Agri-
         culture in  accordance  with  Senate  Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  committee
         discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
         to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to increas-
         ing the acreage of farm woodland which qualifies as land used in agri-
         cultural production for agricultural assessment purposes
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph d of subdivision 4 of section 301 of the agricul-
    2  ture and markets law, as amended by chapter 445 of the laws of 2002,  is
    3  amended to read as follows:
    4    d. Farm woodland which is part of land which is qualified for an agri-
    5  cultural  assessment, provided, however, that such farm woodland attrib-
    6  utable to any separately described and assessed parcel shall not  exceed
    7  [fifty] ONE HUNDRED (100) acres.
    8    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD03444-02-1