S 1302: Provides for the payment of state aid to the town of Ashford, in the county of Cattaraugus, for state lands in such town.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1302 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 9, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BORRELLO -- 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 certain state lands in the town of Ashford, in the county of Cattaraugus The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 19-b of the public lands 2 law, subdivision 1 as added by chapter 260 of the laws of 1980 and 3 subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 373 of the laws of 1981, are amended 4 to read as follows: 5 1. State aid shall be payable to any municipal corporation or special 6 district as such terms are defined by section one hundred two of the 7 real property tax law and hereinafter collectively referred to in this 8 section as "taxing authority", when on any assessment roll the taxable 9 assessed valuation in such taxing authority is decreased in any year by 10 reason of the transfer of title or possession of land or improvements 11 thereon (a) to the state or an agency of the state located at West 12 Valley, Cattaraugus county and theretofore utilized by the corporation 13 known as "Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc."; or (b) to the state located in 14 the town of Ashford, in the county of Cattaraugus, and theretofore 15 subject to the jurisdiction of the state or any agency thereof. 16 2. The state aid payable to a taxing authority pursuant to this 17 section shall be computed and paid during the first fiscal year of any 18 such taxing authority commencing on or after January first, nineteen 19 hundred eighty-one, and during each fiscal year thereafter. Such state 20 aid shall in each year be equal to the amount of taxes levied or which 21 would have been levied by or in behalf of the taxing authority against 22 such lands and the improvements thereon on the last assessment roll 23 finally completed in the year that the land was acquired by the state, EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01625-01-5 
 S. 1302 2 1 adjusted for any change in assessment, but not less than the assessment 2 roll completed in nineteen hundred eighty. 3 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and the first payment of 4 state aid shall be based upon assessment rolls completed in 2024.