Bill Text: NY S00769 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Includes farm land which includes agricultural amusements within provisions of laws relating to agricultural districts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-08 - SIGNED CHAP.47 [S00769 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S00769-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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769
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
(PREFILED)
January 5, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. YOUNG -- 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 includ-
ing farm land which includes agricultural amusements within provisions
of law relating to agricultural districts
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Paragraph c 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 c. Land used in support of a farm operation or land used in agricul-
5 tural production, constituting a portion of a parcel, as identified on
6 the assessment roll, which also contains land qualified for an agricul-
7 tural assessment. SUCH LAND SHALL INCLUDE LAND USED FOR AGRICULTURAL
8 AMUSEMENTS WHICH ARE PRODUCED FROM CROPS GROWN OR PRODUCED ON THE FARM,
9 PROVIDED THAT SUCH CROPS ARE HARVESTED AND MARKETED IN THE SAME MANNER
10 AS OTHER CROPS PRODUCED ON SUCH FARM. SUCH AGRICULTURAL AMUSEMENTS SHALL
11 INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, SO-CALLED "CORN MAZES" OR "HAY BALE
12 MAZES".
13 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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