Directs state aid to be payable to any municipal corporation or special district that contains land in the counties of Cayuga, Seneca and Wayne comprising the northern Montezuma wildlife management area.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4914
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 29, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. NOZZOLIO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
ment Operations
AN ACT to amend the public lands law, in relation to the payment of
state aid on account of state lands in the counties of Cayuga, Seneca
and Wayne comprising the northern Montezuma wildlife management area
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public lands law is amended by adding a new section
2 19-c to read as follows:
3 § 19-c. State aid; state lands comprising the northern Montezuma wild-
4 life management area. 1. State aid shall be payable annually, as
5 provided in this section, to any municipal corporation or special
6 district, as such terms are defined in section one hundred two of the
7 real property tax law and hereinafter collectively referred to as "tax
8 district", that contains land in the counties of Cayuga, Seneca and
9 Wayne comprising the northern Montezuma wildlife management area owned
10 by the state and under the jurisdiction of the department of environ-
11 mental conservation.
12 2. The state aid so payable shall be equal to the taxes that would
13 have been imposed by applying the current tax rate for the tax district
14 to the assessment of the land in the district, exclusive of improve-
15 ments, under the jurisdiction of the department of environmental conser-
16 vation appearing on the appropriate town assessment roll completed in
17 two thousand three, whenever acquired by the state, adjusted for any
18 change in level of assessment.
19 3. State aid shall be payable upon application of the county treasurer
20 on behalf of the tax districts to the state comptroller on a form
21 prescribed by the state comptroller containing such information as the
22 state comptroller shall require.
23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and the first payment of
24 state aid shall be based upon assessment rolls completed in 2011.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00600-01-1
