Bill Text: NY A10464 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to land used in agricultural production.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2020-10-07 - signed chap.220 [A10464 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10464-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                        10464--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 18, 2020
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Gunther,
          Paulin, Buttenschon,  Mosley,  Simon,  Thiele,  Englebright,  Barrett,
          Jaffee,  DiPietro,  DeStefano,  Finch,  Crouch,  Montesano, B. Miller,
          Woerner, Goodell) -- read once and referred to the Committee on  Agri-
          culture  --  committee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law,  in  relation  to  land
          used  in agricultural production; and providing for the repeal of such
          provisions upon expiration thereof

          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
     2  markets law is amended by adding a new paragraph f to read as follows:
     3    f. Notwithstanding any other provision of law  to  the  contrary,  the
     4  owner of real property which qualified for an agricultural assessment on
     5  the  two  thousand twenty -- two thousand twenty-one assessment roll and
     6  is not producing an average annual gross sales value of at least  either
     7  ten  thousand dollars or more or fifty thousand dollars or more, as such
     8  value would normally be determined pursuant to section three hundred one
     9  of this article may nevertheless qualify for an agricultural  assessment
    10  on  the  two  thousand  twenty-one -- two thousand twenty-two assessment
    11  roll provided the owner shall substantiate in  such  manner,  including,
    12  but  not  limited to, analysis by an entity with recognized expertise in
    13  farm production and finances, such as cooperative extension  or  a  farm
    14  credit  institution or federal farm agency, as prescribed by the commis-
    15  sioner of taxation and finance that the agricultural  production  initi-
    16  ated  on  such  land  would  have produced an average annual gross sales
    17  value of ten thousand dollars or more or fifty thousand dollars or  more
    18  over  the  time period beginning on January first, two thousand nineteen
    19  and ending on December thirty-first, two thousand  twenty  but  for  the
    20  effects  of  the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to executive
    21  order number two hundred two of two thousand twenty.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
    23  deemed repealed January 1, 2022.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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