S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 12, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. MAGEE, BLANKENBUSH, BARRETT, LUPARDO -- read once
         and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
       AN  ACT  to  amend the tax law, in relation to providing for a sales tax
         exemption for farm abstracts
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Paragraph 1 of subdivision (c) of section 1105 of the tax
    2  law, as amended by chapter 583 of the laws of 2011, is amended  to  read
    3  as follows:
    4    (1)  The  furnishing of information by printed, mimeographed or multi-
    5  graphed matter or by duplicating written or printed matter in any  other
    6  manner,  including  the  services  of collecting, compiling or analyzing
    7  information of any kind or nature  and  furnishing  reports  thereof  to
    8  other  persons,  but  excluding  the  furnishing of information which is
    9  personal or individual in nature and which is not or may not be substan-
   10  tially incorporated in reports furnished to other persons, and excluding
   11  the services of advertising or other agents, or other persons acting  in
   12  a  representative capacity, and information services used by newspapers,
   13  electronic news services, radio broadcasters and television broadcasters
   14  in the collection and dissemination of news, and excluding  meteorologi-
   15  cal  services,  AND  EXCLUDING  THE SALE OF AN ABSTRACT OF TITLE TO REAL
   16  PROPERTY TO BE USED FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES TO  EITHER  A  PROSPECTIVE
   17  PURCHASER  OF REAL PROPERTY OR TO AN ATTORNEY REPRESENTING A PROSPECTIVE
   18  PURCHASER.
   19    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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