Establishes an agricultural assessment online database providing for single county, regional or state-wide searches for primary agricultural property classifications.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7879
IN SENATE
March 6, 2018
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Introduced by Sen. FUNKE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to the
creation of an agricultural assessment online database
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 304-a of the agriculture and markets law is amended
2 by adding a new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
3 6. The commissioner of taxation and finance shall post the sale of
4 agricultural properties to an online database within sixty days of the
5 sale of such property. Such online database shall provide for single
6 county, regional or state-wide searches for primary agricultural proper-
7 ty classifications. Such database shall include all agricultural proper-
8 ty sales from all counties. To the greatest extent possible, the sales
9 search results should follow USDA agricultural property sales standards
10 including location, seller, buyer, consideration, terms of sale, contri-
11 butory values of buildings, soils reports, facilities, and comments
12 provided by the assessor.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
14 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
15 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
16 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
17 completed on or before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14979-02-8
