New York A 6011: Extends the limitations on the shift between classes of taxable property in the town of Orangetown, county of Rockland

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A06011 Summary:

BILL NOA06011A

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORWoerner

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COSPNSRMcDonald, Buttenschon

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MLTSPNSR

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Add Art 13 Part 5 §§13-5.1 & 13-5.2, amd §5-1.4, EPT L

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Establishes a process for designating transfer on death beneficiaries for farming implements.

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BILL NOA06011A

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02/25/2025referred to agriculture

01/07/2026referred to agriculture

06/01/2026amend (t) and recommit to agriculture

06/01/2026print number 6011a

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6011--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 25, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER, McDONALD, BUTTENSCHON -- read once and
 referred to the Committee on Agriculture -- recommitted to the Commit-
 tee on Agriculture in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --
 committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
 recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the estates, powers and trusts law, in relation to
 establishing a process for designating transfer on death beneficiaries
 for farming implements

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Article 13 of the estates, powers and trusts law is amended
 2 by adding a new part 5 to read as follows:

 3 PART 5. TRANSFER ON DEATH OF FARMING IMPLEMENTS

 4 § 13-5.1. Legislative intent
 5 The legislature finds that in two thousand twenty-two there were
 6 30,650 farms in New York state. Ninety-eight percent of those farms are
 7 family owned. Farmers, by necessity, own a variety of valuable tractors
 8 and other farming equipment. When a farmer dies, farm operations do not
 9 stop. Operations at the farm must go on, yet any farm equipment owned by
 10 the decedent at the time of death can be swept into a probate proceed-
 11 ing. Farm equipment that is subject to probate may not be used until all
 12 of the decedent's assets and debts have been catalogued, ownership
 13 resolved, and the probate proceeding closed. Due to the uniquely intert-
 14 wined nature of families and the business of farming, the legislature
 15 finds that farm owners need a straightforward process to identify and
 16 assign their farm equipment for continued use immediately following
 17 their death, and that such process must not hamper the farmer's rights
 18 to sell or encumber such equipment during the farmer's lifetime.
 19 § 13-5.2. Transfer on death beneficiary; farm implements

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04764-06-6

 A. 6011--A 2

 1 1. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms
 2 shall have the following meanings:
 3 (a) "Beneficiary" means a person who receives property in a transfer
 4 on death of farm implement instrument.
 5 (b) "Designated beneficiary" means a person designated to receive
 6 property in a transfer on death of farm implement instrument.
 7 (c) "Farm implement" means a tractor or machine, including any associ-
 8 ated accessories, attachments, fuel, and repair parts, used exclusively
 9 and directly in farming including, but not limited to, implements of
 10 husbandry, farm type tractors and all terrain type vehicles used exclu-
 11 sively for agricultural or mowing purposes, or for snow plowing, other
 12 than for hire, farm equipment, including self-propelled machines,
 13 including caterpillar or crawler-type equipment, used exclusively in
 14 growing, harvesting or handling farm produce, and timber harvesting
 15 equipment such as harvesters, wood chippers, forwarders, log skidders,
 16 and other processing equipment used exclusively off highway for timber
 17 harvesting and logging purposes. "Farm implement" shall not include
 18 personal property that is attached to, fastened to, connected to, or
 19 built into real property or that becomes an addition to, component of,
 20 or capital improvement to real property, and does not include buildings
 21 or improvements to real property, regardless of any contribution that
 22 the per