Bill Text: NY A10142 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to payments for certain school, fire, fire protection and ambulance districts for lands exempt from real property taxation and exempts such payments from the tax levy for the purposes of calculating the tax levy limit pursuant to section 3-c of the general municipal law and section 2023-a of the education law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-12 - referred to local governments [A10142 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A10142-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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            S. 7769                                                 A. 10142
                SENATE - ASSEMBLY
                                      May 12, 2016
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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. THIELE -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Local Governments
        AN ACT to amend chapter 330 of the laws of 2011 amending  the  town  law
          relating  to  payments  for certain school, fire, fire protection, and
          ambulance districts for lands exempt from real property  taxation  for
          purposes  which implement the Peconic Bay community preservation fund,
          in relation to such payments
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section 2 of chapter 330 of the laws of 2011 amending the
     2  town law relating to payments for certain school, fire, fire protection,
     3  and ambulance districts for lands exempt from real property taxation for
     4  purposes which implement the Peconic Bay community preservation fund, as
     5  amended by chapter 396 of the laws  of  2015,  is  amended  to  read  as
     6  follows:
     7    § 2. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the town of
     8  Southampton  may  make  annual  payments from its community preservation
     9  fund to certain high-tax school, fire, fire  protection,  and  ambulance
    10  districts,  as  specified  in  this  section,  located  either wholly or
    11  partially within the  Long  Island  Pine  Barrens  maritime  reserve  as
    12  defined in subdivision 2 of section 57-0107 of the environmental conser-
    13  vation  law.    Such  payments may be made to mitigate the impact of the
    14  lost tax revenues from lands made wholly exempt as  a  result  of  their
    15  acquisition by the federal, state, or local government for the preserva-
    16  tion  of community character as defined in subdivision 4 of section 64-e
    17  of the town law. The following districts shall  be  eligible:  Riverhead
    18  central  school district, Hampton Bays union free school district, East-
    19  port-South Manor central school district, East Quogue union free  school
    20  district,  Riverhead  fire  district, Flanders fire district, Flanders -
    21  Northampton ambulance district, and the North End Quogue fire protection
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15324-01-6
        S. 7769                             2                           A. 10142
     1  district. Payments made pursuant to this section shall not  be  included
     2  in  the tax levy for purposes of calculating the tax levy limit pursuant
     3  to section 3-c of the general municipal law and section  2023-a  of  the
     4  education law.
     5    §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
     6  the amendments to section 2 of chapter 330 of the laws of 2011  made  by
     7  section  one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and
     8  shall be deemed repealed therewith.