BILL NUMBER: S1652

SPONSOR: SKOUFIS
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the real property tax law, in relation to subjecting
certain state lands in Orange county to real property taxation

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

To subject all lands in the towns of Chester and Blooming Grove acquired
for a public use by the commissioners of the Palisades Interstate park
to local real property taxation.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1: Amends section 532 of the Real Property Tax Law, to subject
all land in the towns of Chester and Blooming Grove acquired for a
public use by the commissioners of the Palisades Interstate park to
local real property taxation, in the same manner as is currently done in
the towns of Monroe, Warwick, Cornwall, Highlands, Tuxedo, and Woodbury
              

in Orange County, and in the towns of Gardiner, Rochester, Shawangunk
and Warwasing in Ulster County.

Section 2: Effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Similar state lands within the Palisades Interstate Park are fully taxa-
ble. State-owned tracts in the towns of Chester and Blooming Grove
should be treated similarly to those in the towns of Monroe, Warwick,
Cornwall, Tuxedo, and Woodbury, Orange County.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

Assembly

2018 - Passed Assembly

2020 - A7446 Referred to Real Property Taxation

Senate

2018 - Passed Senate
2018 - Vetoed Memo 314

2020 - S1680 Referred to Local Government

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined

 
LOCAL FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

Local governments will receive payments from the state for taxation of
lands

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to assessment
rolls prepared on the basis of taxable status dates occurring on and
after the date on which this act shall have become a law.