Bill Text: NY A00770 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that local assessing units shall determine the amount of the tax abatement granted to freshwater wetlands, subject to the rules and regulations of the commissioner of taxation and finance; provides such commissioner shall establish a standard application form for such tax abatement; provides that the tax savings provided by real property taxing authorities to freshwater wetlands shall be a state charge.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to environmental conservation [A00770 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00770-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           770
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 10, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. CROUCH, FINCH, GIGLIO -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
        AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law and the real property
          tax law, in relation to providing for a real  property  tax  abatement
          for land subject to freshwater wetland regulation
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 24-0905 of the environmental conservation  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  654  of  the  laws  of 1977, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4  § 24-0905. Tax abatement.
     5    Any freshwater wetland subject to land  use  regulations  pursuant  to
     6  section  24-0903  of  this  [article]  title or subject to a cooperative
     7  agreement pursuant to section 24-0901 of this [article] title  shall  be
     8  deemed  subject  to  a  limitation  on  the use of such wetlands for the
     9  purposes of real property tax evaluation, in the same manner  as  if  an
    10  easement  or  right  had been acquired pursuant to the general municipal
    11  law.  [Assessed] The assessed value of such freshwater wetland shall  be
    12  based, during the duration of such agreement or regulations, on the uses
    13  remaining  to  the owner thereof as determined by the assessing unit, as
    14  defined in section one hundred two of the real property tax law,  pursu-
    15  ant to rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner of taxation
    16  and  finance.   The tax abatement provided by this section shall only be
    17  granted upon submission to the assessing unit of an  application  there-
    18  for,  in  such form as shall be established by the commissioner of taxa-
    19  tion and finance.
    20    § 2. The environmental conservation law is amended  by  adding  a  new
    21  section 24-0907 to read as follows:
    22  § 24-0907. Effect of tax abatement.
    23    The total real property tax savings provided by each real property tax
    24  authority  pursuant  to  section  24-0905 of this title shall be a state
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  charge which shall be payable by the department pursuant to  information
     2  provided  by  and subject to a procedure established by the commissioner
     3  of taxation and finance.
     4    §  3.    Subdivision  4 of section 202 of the real property tax law is
     5  renumbered subdivision 5 and a new subdivision 4 is  added  to  read  as
     6  follows:
     7    4. (a) The commissioner shall promulgate a statewide standard applica-
     8  tion form for the tax abatement for freshwater wetlands granted pursuant
     9  to  section  24-0905  of  the  environmental conservation law. Such form
    10  shall include all such information as the commissioner  shall  determine
    11  is  necessary  for an assessing unit to determine the amount of such tax
    12  abatement on the appropriate freshwater wetland.
    13    (b) The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations  providing
    14  for  the determination of the tax abatements to be granted to freshwater
    15  wetlands by assessing units pursuant to section 24-0905 of the  environ-
    16  mental conservation law.
    17    §  4. This act shall take effect immediately; except that sections one
    18  and two of this act shall take effect  on  the  first  of  January  next
    19  succeeding  the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply
    20  to real property with a taxable status date on or after such date.