S 581: Increases from 50 to 100 acres, the acreage of farm woodland that qualifies as land used in agricultural production for agricultural assessment purposes.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 581 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HELMING -- 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 increas- ing the acreage of farm woodland which qualifies as land used in agri- cultural production for agricultural assessment purposes The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph d of subdivision 4 of section 301 of the agricul- 2 ture and markets law, as amended by chapter 445 of the laws of 2002, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 d. Farm woodland which is part of land which is qualified for an agri- 5 cultural assessment, provided, however, that such farm woodland attrib- 6 utable to any separately described and assessed parcel shall not exceed 7 [fifty] one hundred acres. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01326-01-5