S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4728--A 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E April 15, 2011 ___________ Introduced by Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture -- recommitted to the Committee on Agriculture 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 tax law, in relation to providing for a sales tax exemption for farm abstracts THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (c) of section 1105 of the tax 2 law, as amended by chapter 583 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read 3 as follows: 4 (1) The furnishing of information by printed, mimeographed or multi- 5 graphed matter or by duplicating written or printed matter in any other 6 manner, including the services of collecting, compiling or analyzing 7 information of any kind or nature and furnishing reports thereof to 8 other persons, but excluding the furnishing of information which is 9 personal or individual in nature and which is not or may not be substan- 10 tially incorporated in reports furnished to other persons, and excluding 11 the services of advertising or other agents, or other persons acting in 12 a representative capacity, and information services used by newspapers, 13 electronic news services, radio broadcasters and television broadcasters 14 in the collection and dissemination of news, and excluding meteorologi- 15 cal services, AND EXCLUDING THE SALE OF AN ABSTRACT OF TITLE TO REAL 16 PROPERTY TO BE USED FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES TO EITHER A PROSPECTIVE 17 PURCHASER OF REAL PROPERTY OR TO AN ATTORNEY REPRESENTING A PROSPECTIVE 18 PURCHASER. 19 S 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same 20 manner as section 3 of chapter 583 of the laws of 2011. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10930-02-2