Bill Text: NY S06613 | 2015-2016 | 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: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-05-10 - referred to agriculture [S06613 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S06613-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6613 IN SENATE February 1, 2016 ___________ Introduced by Sens. RITCHIE, YOUNG, AKSHAR, AVELLA, O'MARA, PANEPINTO, VALESKY -- (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 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06048-01-5