Miller, Brown E, Maher, Morinello, DeStefano, Gray, Smullen, Lemondes, Flood, Angelino, Brown K,
Palmesano, Byrnes, Manktelow, Blankenbush, Norris, Bendett, Hawley
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd 532, RPT L
 
Requires the state pay taxes on the assessed value of properties of closed state prisons until such prison is reopened, used by another state agency, or is conveyed to a non-governmental entity.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4937
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 27, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. SIMPSON, MILLER, E. BROWN, MAHER, MORINELLO,
DeSTEFANO, GRAY, SMULLEN, LEMONDES, FLOOD, ANGELINO, K. BROWN, PALMES-
ANO, BYRNES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Real Proper-
ty Taxation
AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to requiring the
state pay taxes on the assessed value of properties of closed state
prisons
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 532 of the real property tax law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision (m) to read as follows:
3 (m) All lands owned by the state which were previously used as a state
4 prison, including the improvements erected thereon by the state, begin-
5 ning once correctional operations have ceased at such prison, regardless
6 of any state or contracted personnel assigned to maintenance of relative
7 facility grounds or facility infrastructure including, but not limited
8 to, buildings, heating systems, or communications technology, until the
9 state begins operations upon the land through a state agency or the land
10 is sold to a non-governmental entity; provided, however, that where such
11 lands are conveyed to a not-for-profit non-governmental entity, such
12 entity shall enter into a payment in lieu of taxes with the respective
13 local municipality in which the former prison is located.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
15 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.
LBD05054-02-3