S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        296--A
                              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  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,   ordered
         reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
       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, 2016.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD05237-03-5