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                                   5878
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 20, 2019
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 Introduced by M. of A. GIGLIO, DeSTEFANO, McDONOUGH, LAWRENCE, B. MILLER
   --  Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. MORINELLO -- 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 New Hudson,
   in the county of Allegany
 
   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  NEW  HUDSON,  IN  THE COUNTY OF ALLEGANY, AND THERETOFORE
 SUBJECT TO THE JURISDICTION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVA-
 TION.
   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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 finally  completed  in THE YEAR THAT THE LAND WAS ACQUIRED BY THE STATE,
 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 2019.