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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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            S. 7503                                                 A. 10718
 
                SENATE - ASSEMBLY
 
                                     April 16, 2010
                                       ___________
 
        IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Govern-
          ment
 
        IN  ASSEMBLY  -- Introduced by M. of A. ALESSI -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Local Governments
 
        AN ACT to amend chapter 246 of the laws of 1916 relating to the extermi-

          nation of mosquitoes and the establishment of districts  therefor,  in
          relation  to  authorization for the amount of the annual appropriation
          by the town of Southold for the Orient mosquito district
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Section  1 of chapter 246 of the laws of 1916 relating to
     2  the extermination of  mosquitoes  and  the  establishment  of  districts
     3  therefor,  as  amended by chapter 496 of the laws of 2002, is amended to
     4  read as follows:
     5    Section 1. The town board of any town in the  county  of  Suffolk  may
     6  establish  one or more districts for the purposes of this act within the
     7  town and outside the boundaries of any incorporated village on the peti-
     8  tion of a majority of  the  owners  of  taxable  real  property  in  the

     9  proposed  district.   The petition must be signed by the petitioners and
    10  acknowledged in the same manner as a deed to be recorded. Such petition,
    11  accompanied with a map showing the boundaries of the proposed  district,
    12  shall be filed with the town clerk. If any such district be established,
    13  the town board shall thereafter include in the annual budget of taxes to
    14  be levied by the board of supervisors a sum not exceeding three thousand
    15  dollars except that in the town of Southold, the town board shall there-
    16  after  include  in  its  annual budget for the Orient mosquito district,
    17  established pursuant to this chapter, a sum not exceeding  [eighty]  one
    18  hundred  twenty  thousand dollars for the extermination of mosquitoes in
    19  such district, which sum shall be levied by such  board  of  supervisors

    20  upon the property subject to taxation in the district as so established.
    21  Any  increase  in such sum made pursuant to a chapter of the laws of two
    22  thousand ten which amended this section shall be subject to a permissive
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  referendum by the affirmative vote of  eligible  voters  in  the  Orient
     2  mosquito  district. For the purpose of the levying of such tax, the town
     3  board shall apportion the same pro rata upon such taxable  property  and
     4  transmit a certified statement thereof to the board of supervisors. Such

     5  apportionment shall be on the basis of the valuation of such property as
     6  fixed by the last preceding assessment roll of the town. After the boun-
     7  daries  of such district shall have been established, if any farm or lot
     8  or the real property of a corporation or joint stock  association  shall
     9  have been divided by any such boundary line, it shall be the duty of the
    10  town  assessors,  after  fixing  the valuation of the whole of such real
    11  property as now required by the law, to determine what portion  of  such
    12  valuation  is on account of that part of such real property lying within
    13  such district.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.