Bill Text: NY S04331 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 4331 (Prior Session Legislation)

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: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-02 - referred to agriculture [S04331 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S04331-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4331
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    March 21, 2013
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       Introduced by Sen. YOUNG -- (at request of the Legislative Commission on
         Rural  Resources)  -- 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    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD02520-01-3