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                                   4992
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 6, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Real Property Taxation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public lands law, in relation to the payment of
   state aid on account of certain state lands in the town of Ashford, in
   the county of Cattaraugus

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  public  lands law is amended by adding a new section
 19-c to read as follows:
   § 19-C. STATE AID; CERTAIN STATE LANDS IN  THE  TOWN  OF  ASHFORD.  1.
 STATE AID SHALL BE PAYABLE ANNUALLY, AS PROVIDED IN THIS SECTION, TO THE
 TOWN  OF  ASHFORD,  IN  THE  COUNTY  OF  CATTARAUGUS, AND TO ANY SPECIAL
 DISTRICT, AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION SIXTEEN OF SECTION ONE  HUNDRED  TWO
 OF  THE  REAL PROPERTY TAX LAW, WITHIN SUCH TOWN, FOR ANY PARCEL OF LAND
 OWNED BY THE STATE, OR AN AGENCY OF THE STATE.
   2. THE STATE AID SO PAYABLE SHALL BE EQUAL TO  FIVE  HUNDRED  THOUSAND
 DOLLARS.
   3.  STATE  AID  SHALL BE PAYABLE UPON APPLICATION OF THE TOWN BOARD OF
 THE TOWN OF ASHFORD ON BEHALF OF SUCH TOWN  AND  THE  SPECIAL  DISTRICTS
 THEREIN TO THE STATE COMPTROLLER ON A FORM PRESCRIBED BY THE STATE COMP-
 TROLLER  CONTAINING  SUCH  INFORMATION  AS  THE  STATE COMPTROLLER SHALL
 REQUIRE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and the first  payment  of
 state  aid pursuant to section 19-c of the public lands law, as added by
 section one of this act, shall be in 2018.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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                                  4992--A
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 6, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on  Real  Property  Taxation  --  committee  discharged, bill amended,
   ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the public lands law, in  relation  to  the  payment  of
   state aid on account of certain state lands in the town of Ashford, in
   the county of Cattaraugus
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 19-b of  the  public  lands
 law,  subdivision  1  as  added  by  chapter 260 of the laws of 1980 and
 subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 373 of the laws of 1981, are amended
 to read as follows:
   1. State aid shall be payable to any municipal corporation or  special
 district  as  such  terms  are defined by section one hundred two of the
 real property tax law and hereinafter collectively referred to  in  this
 section  as  "taxing authority", when on any assessment roll the taxable
 assessed valuation in such taxing authority is decreased in any year  by
 reason  of  the  transfer of title or possession of land or improvements
 thereon (A) to the state or an agency  of  the  state  located  at  West
 Valley,  Cattaraugus  county and theretofore utilized by the corporation
 known as "Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc."; OR (B) TO THE STATE  LOCATED  IN
 THE  TOWN  OF  ASHFORD,  IN  THE  COUNTY OF CATTARAUGUS, AND THERETOFORE
 SUBJECT TO THE JURISDICTION OF THE STATE OR ANY AGENCY THEREOF.
   2. The state aid payable  to  a  taxing  authority  pursuant  to  this
 section  shall  be computed and paid during the first fiscal year of any
 such taxing authority commencing on or  after  January  first,  nineteen
 hundred  eighty-one,  and during each fiscal year thereafter. Such state
 aid shall in each year be equal to the amount of taxes levied  or  which
 would  have  been levied by or in behalf of the taxing authority against
 such lands and the improvements thereon  on  the  last  assessment  roll
 finally  completed  in THE YEAR THAT THE LAND WAS ACQUIRED BY THE STATE,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 A. 4992--A                          2
 
 ADJUSTED FOR ANY CHANGE IN ASSESSMENT, BUT NOT LESS THAN THE  ASSESSMENT
 ROLL COMPLETED IN nineteen hundred eighty.
   §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately and the first payment of
 state aid shall be based upon assessment rolls completed in 2017.