Bill Text: NY S02085 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Increases from 50 to 100 acres, the acreage of farm woodland that qualifies as land used in agricultural production for agricultural assessment purposes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE [S02085 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S02085-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2085
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 22, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen. HELMING -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture
        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to increas-
          ing the acreage of farm woodland which qualifies as land used in agri-
          cultural production for agricultural assessment purposes
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph d of subdivision 4 of section 301 of the agricul-
     2  ture  and markets law, as amended by chapter 445 of the laws of 2002, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    d. Farm woodland which is part of land which is qualified for an agri-
     5  cultural assessment, provided, however, that such farm woodland  attrib-
     6  utable  to any separately described and assessed parcel shall not exceed
     7  [fifty] one hundred acres.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05114-01-9
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