Bill Text: NY S07662 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Authorizes the taxation of certain lands owned by the state constituting a state park; provides that if the land constitutes a state park and the average daily state park attendance for the preceding year exceeded twenty-five percent of the municipal population as determined by the most recent census data; the state owned land constitutes ten percent or more of the total land contained within the municipality; the municipality provides or pays for first responder police protection and either pays or provides for the cost of first responder fire protection or the residents of the municipality make direct payments to a fire protection district responsible for protecting the state park and its visitors; and the principal entrance to the state park is within the boundaries of the municipality, it may be subject to real property taxation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-24 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S07662 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S07662-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7662--A IN SENATE February 4, 2020 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GAUGHRAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to certain state lands constituting a state park subject to taxation The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 532 of the real property tax law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision (l) to read as follows: 3 (l) (i) All lands owned by the state constituting a state park, 4 excluding those lands otherwise subject to taxation pursuant to subdivi- 5 sions (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), (j) and (k) of this 6 section, which meet the following criteria: 7 (A) the average daily state park attendance for the preceding year as 8 reported by the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation 9 exceeded twenty-five percent of the municipal population as determined 10 by the most recent census data as reported by the United States census 11 bureau; 12 (B) the state-owned land constitutes ten percent or more of the total 13 land contained within the municipality based on acreage of state park- 14 land and wildlife management area in the municipality as a percentage of 15 all municipal land; 16 (C) the municipality provides or pays for first responder police 17 protection and either: (1) pays or provides the cost of first responder 18 fire protection; or (2) the residents of the municipality make direct 19 payment to a fire protection district responsible for protecting the 20 state park and its visitors; and 21 (D) the principal entrance to the state park is within the boundaries 22 of the municipality. 23 (ii) In no event shall the payment exceed two hundred fifty thousand 24 dollars for the two thousand twenty--two thousand twenty-one fiscal 25 year, and in each succeeding fiscal year shall not exceed two hundred 26 fifty thousand dollars subject to an annual adjustment reflecting the EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14927-06-0S. 7662--A 2 1 latest consumer price index (all items--U.S. city average), published by 2 the United States bureau of labor statistics, as recalculated every 3 January first. The payment shall be reduced by any payment in lieu of 4 taxes or other state payments paid to the municipality which are related 5 to the state park. 6 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding 7 the date on which it shall have become a law.