Bill Text: NY S03066 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to excluding the value of trees on privately owned forest land for the purposes of real property tax assessments.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S03066 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S03066-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3066
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 2, 2015
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       Introduced by Sens. YOUNG, SEWARD -- read twice and ordered printed, and
         when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
       AN  ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to excluding the
         value of trees for the purposes of assessment
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  305  of  the real property tax law is amended by
    2  adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
    3    4. FOR PURPOSES OF REAL PROPERTY TAX ASSESSMENT, THE  VALUE  OF  TREES
    4  SHALL BE EXCLUDED FOR THE PURPOSES OF ASSESSMENT.
    5    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD05935-01-5