What's happening
This bill allows state-owned lands in additional Oswego County towns to be subject to local property taxation.
Why it matters
Increased local funding for additional Oswego County towns. By allowing state-owned lands in newly listed towns (Albion, Amboy, Boylston, Constantia, Parish, West Monroe, Williamstown) to be taxed, these municipalities could receive more property tax revenue to support schools, infrastructure, and local services.
Shifts some state land financial burden to the state government. Making state-owned land taxable in more towns means the state must pay property taxes on these lands, reducing the pressure on local taxpayers while increasing the state’s fiscal obligations.
Potential precedent for other counties. Expanding the list of towns eligible to tax state-owned land could encourage similar changes in other counties, affecting how state landholdings are treated statewide and altering the state-local fiscal relationship.
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Tax State Land in Oswego
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- Referred to real property taxation
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STATE OF NEW YORK
251
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
Introduced by M. of A. BARCLAY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Real Property Taxation
AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to certain state lands in the county of Oswego which shall be subject to taxation
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision (g) of section 532 of the real property tax law, as amended by chapter 196 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
(g) All lands owned by the state, including lands leased from the United States for a term of fifty years or more, for use by the conservation department as a fish hatchery, game farm, game management area, game refuge or for reforestation purposes, exclusive of the improvements erected thereon by the state, in the following towns:
County Town
Chenango Otselic
Pharsalia
Sherburne
Jefferson Antwerp
Brownville
Lorraine
Worth
Lewis Montague
Livingston Conesus
Livonia
Springwater
West Sparta
Ontario Canadice
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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Richmond
Oswego Albion
Amboy
Boylston
Constantia
Parish
Redfield
West Monroe
Williamstown
Otsego Morris
Pittsfield
Rensselaer Berlin
Stephentown
Steuben Wayland
Washington Argyle
Ft. Edward
Kingsbury
Yates Italy
Except, however, for the towns of Conesus, Canadice and Richmond the provisions of this subdivision shall only apply to lands acquired by the state on or after December fifteenth, nineteen hundred eighty-nine.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to assessment rolls prepared on the basis of taxable status dates occurring on or after such date.
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