Assembly Bill A3612

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Grants an exemption for the purchase of certain tangible personal property and services used in the operation of recreational skiing facilities from state sales and compensating use tax

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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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2025-A3612 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1115, Tax L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A5796

2025-A3612 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Grants an exemption for the purchase of energy efficient snow making equipment, ski lift equipment, snow grooming equipment, and the production of snow by a recreational ski facility from state sales and compensating use tax.

2025-A3612 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3612
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 29, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. JONES -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Ways and Means
 
 AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to granting sales  and  compen-
   sating  use  tax exemptions for certain tangible personal property and
   services used in the operation of recreational skiing facilities

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision (a) of section 1115 of the tax law is amended
 by adding a new paragraph 47 to read as follows:
   (47) ENERGY EFFICIENT TANGIBLE PERSONAL PROPERTY  OF  WHATEVER  NATURE
 FOR  USE  OR CONSUMPTION DIRECTLY AND EXCLUSIVELY: (I) IN THE PRODUCTION
 OF SNOW; (II) IN THE UPHILL TRANSPORTATION OF SKIERS; OR  (III)  IN  THE
 GROOMING  AND  MAINTENANCE OF SNOW BY ANY PERSON ENGAGED IN THE BUSINESS
 OF OPERATING A RECREATIONAL FACILITY FOR SKIING.
   § 2. Section 1115 of the tax law is amended by adding a  new  subdivi-
 sion (mm) to read as follows:
   (MM)  FUEL,  GAS, ELECTRICITY AND REFRIGERATION, AND GAS, ELECTRIC AND
 REFRIGERATION SERVICE OF WHATEVER NATURE FOR USE OR CONSUMPTION DIRECTLY
 AND EXCLUSIVELY IN THE PRODUCTION OF SNOW BY ANY PERSON ENGAGED  IN  THE
 BUSINESS  OF  OPERATING  A  RECREATIONAL  FACILITY  FOR SKIING, SHALL BE
 EXEMPT FROM THE TAXES IMPOSED UNDER SUBDIVISIONS (A) AND (B) OF  SECTION
 ELEVEN  HUNDRED  FIVE AND THE COMPENSATING USE TAX IMPOSED UNDER SECTION
 ELEVEN HUNDRED TEN OF THIS ARTICLE.
   § 3. 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.
                                                            LBD07683-01-5

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