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                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 7, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen. MARTINS -- 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 tax law, in relation to the collection of sales  tax
         on abstracts of title and other public records searches
         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 ABSTRACTS OF TITLE AND OTHER PUBLIC  RECORDS
   16  SEARCHES  SUCH  AS  TAX  SEARCHES,  SEARCHES  FOR  MUNICIPAL RECORDS FOR
   17  VIOLATIONS, CERTIFIED OR NONCERTIFIED COPIES OBTAINED  FROM  THE  PUBLIC
   18  RECORD,  CERTIFICATES  OF  TITLE AND LIEN SEARCHES, CERTIFICATES OF GOOD
   19  STANDING AND FRANCHISE  TAX  SEARCHES,  COOPERATIVE  UNIT  SEARCHES  AND
   20  ZONING LOT PARTIES-IN-INTEREST CERTIFICATIONS.
   21    S 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2015.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD05237-01-5