Senate Bill S2259

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Removes that portion of the town of Chester in the service area of the Albert Wisner memorial public library from such library service area

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-S2259 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Libraries And Education Technology
Law Section:
Orange County
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S647
2011-2012: S4676
2013-2014: S271
2017-2018: S4126

2015-S2259 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Removes that portion of the town of Chester in the service area of the Albert Wisner memorial public library from such library service area to end the double taxation of certain town residents.

2015-S2259 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S2259 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  2259

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 22, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  LARKIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government

AN ACT to remove from the Albert Wisner memorial public library  service
  area  that  portion  of  the town of Chester, in the county of Orange,
  which is located within such district

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Notwithstanding the terms of the resolution, enacted pursu-
ant  to section 255 of the education law, establishing the Albert Wisner
memorial public library in 1973 or the charter issued in 1979  for  such
library  by  the board of regents, pursuant to section 216 of the educa-
tion law, no real property in the town of  Chester,  in  the  county  of
Orange,  shall  be  deemed  to be within the service area of such public
library. Under no circumstance shall the Warwick Valley  central  school
district  impose  any  library  tax for the support of the Albert Wisner
memorial public library upon any parcel of real property in the town  of
Chester.  For  all  purposes, any real property removed from the service
area of the Albert Wisner memorial public library pursuant to  this  act
shall  be  deemed  to  be  within the service area of the Chester public
library and shall be subject to taxation for the support of the  Chester
public library.
  S  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
the date on which it shall have become a law.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04551-01-5

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