Bill Text: NY A05676 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that where sewage sludge or other sludge or any product made from sewage sludge or other sludge is applied upon land receiving an agricultural assessment, such land shall be ineligible for such assessment; where only a portion of such land is affected, the assessor shall prorate such agricultural assessment.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to agriculture [A05676 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A05676-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5676 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 14, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Agriculture AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to agricul- tural assessments of land applied with sludge The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 305 of the agriculture and markets 2 law is amended by adding a new paragraph g to read as follows: 3 g. (i) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if sewage sludge or 4 other sludge or any product made from sewage sludge or other sludge, is 5 applied upon land, such application shall render the land upon which 6 such application occurred ineligible for an agricultural assessment 7 pursuant to this section or section three hundred six of this article 8 beginning with the assessment roll prepared on the basis of the first 9 taxable status date occurring on or after such application. If the land 10 upon which such application has occurred constitutes only a portion of a 11 parcel described on the assessment roll, the assessor shall apportion 12 the assessment, and adjust the agricultural assessment attributable to 13 the portion of the parcel not subject to the application by subtracting 14 the proportionate part of the agricultural assessment attributable to 15 the portion upon which application has occurred. No land shall be 16 rendered ineligible for an agricultural assessment as a result of any 17 application of sewage sludge or other sludge or any product made from 18 sewage sludge or other sludge made at any time upon such land, provided 19 that one or more of such applications occurred before the effective date 20 of this paragraph. 21 (ii) For purposes of this paragraph, the following terms shall have 22 the following meanings: 23 (a) "sludge" means any solid, semi-solid or liquid waste generated 24 from a wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant or air 25 pollution control facility, but shall not include the treated effluent EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09746-01-9A. 5676 2 1 from a wastewater treatment plant or the food processing wastes gener- 2 ated from a food processing establishment licensed pursuant to the 3 provisions of article twenty-C of this chapter; and 4 (b) "sewage sludge" means the accumulated semi-solids or solids 5 resulting from treatment of wastewaters from publicly or privately owned 6 or operated sewage treatment plants. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 8 have become a law.