A 4620: Expands the tax exemption for new farm buildings to include buildings used for on-farm retail sales.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4620 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 4, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER, CRUZ, JONES, BUTTENSCHON, SHIMSKY, BARRETT, BRABENEC, ANGELINO, TAGUE, WALSH, LEMONDES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Real Property Taxation AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to expanding the tax exemption for new farm buildings The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 483 of the real property tax law, 2 as amended by chapter 35 of the laws of 2016, paragraph (e) as amended 3 by chapter 160 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows: 4 2. The term "structures and buildings" shall include: (a) permanent 5 and impermanent structures, including trellises and pergolas, made of 6 metal, string or wood, and buildings or portions thereof used directly 7 and exclusively in the raising and production for sale of agricultural 8 and horticultural commodities or necessary for the storage thereof or 9 used for the on-farm processing of such commodities, but not structures 10 and buildings or portions thereof used for the [processing of agricul- 11 tural and horticultural commodities, or the] retail merchandising of 12 such commodities; (b) structures and buildings used to provide housing 13 for regular and essential employees and their immediate families who are 14 primarily employed in connection with the operation of lands actively 15 devoted to agricultural and horticultural use, but not including struc- 16 tures and buildings occupied as a residence by the applicant and [his] 17 their immediate family; (c) structures and buildings used as indoor 18 exercise arenas exclusively for training and exercising horses in 19 connection with the raising and production for sale of agricultural and 20 horticultural commodities or in connection with a commercial horse 21 boarding operation as defined in section three hundred one of the agri- 22 culture and markets law. For purposes of this section, the term "indoor 23 exercise arenas" shall not include riding academies or dude ranches; (d) 24 structures and buildings used in the production of maple syrup; (e) EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD08109-01-5 
 A. 4620 2 1 structures and buildings used in the production of honey, royal jelly, 2 bee pollen, propolis and beeswax including those structures and build- 3 ings used for the storage of bees. [For purposes of this section, this 4 shall not include those structures or buildings and portions thereof 5 used for the sale of maple syrup or sale of honey and beeswax.] The term 6 "structures and buildings" shall not include silos, bulk milk tanks or 7 coolers, or manure storage, handling and treatment facilities as such 8 terms are used in section four hundred eighty-three-a of this title. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a 10 law and shall apply to assessment rolls prepared on the basis of taxable 11 status dates occurring on or after such date.