Section 120-BB. Town of Huntington solid waste management resource recovery facility; tax exemption; other contractual provisions related to towns of Huntington and Smithtown  


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  • 1.  Notwithstanding  any  inconsistent  provision of article twenty-eight of  the  tax  law,  or  of  any  other
      general, special or local law respecting taxation, the receipts from the
      sale  of  all  tangible  personal  property  purchased  by a contractor,
      subcontractor or repairman for use in  erecting,  repairing,  replacing,
      improving  or  altering  a  solid  waste  management  resource  recovery
      facility within the town of Huntington,  as  such  term  is  defined  in
      section  one  hundred  twenty-w  of  this  article,  where such property
      becomes an integral component part of such  facility,  shall  be  exempt
      from  the  tax  on retail sales imposed under subdivision (a) of section
      eleven hundred five and the compensating use tax imposed  under  section
      eleven hundred ten of the tax law provided that:
        (a)  title  to the real property upon which the solid waste management
      resource recovery facility is to be situated is  held  by  the  town  of
      Huntington;
        (b)  the  environmental facilities corporation has caused to be issued
      bonds of  the  corporation  for  financing  in  whole  or  in  part  the
      construction of such solid waste management resource recovery facility;
        (c)  the  vendor  has  entered  into  a site lease, easement or rental
      agreement with such town relating to the site of the proposed facility;
        (d)  prior  to  the  issuance  of  a  permit  by  the  department   of
      environmental  conservation  authorizing  the operation of the facility,
      the town of Huntington and the town of Smithtown shall each have adopted
      and put into effect and maintained in effect a local ordinance providing
      for the separation of solid waste into recyclable,  reusable  and  other
      components pursuant to section one hundred twenty-aa of this article.
        1-a. As long as the criteria set forth in paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and
      (d)  of  subdivision  one  of this section are satisfied, a vendor under
      this section, shall be afforded the same treatment, with respect to  the
      imposition of the sales and compensating use taxes imposed under article
      twenty-eight  of the tax law as the environmental facilities corporation
      is pursuant to subdivision eight of section twelve hundred ninety-six of
      the public authorities law, on any purchase or use of tangible  personal
      property.
        2.  Notwithstanding  any  provision of law, general, special or local,
      relating to taxation to the contrary, any mortgage, security interest or
      other lien granted on any interest in  the  real  or  personal  property
      comprising  the solid waste management resource recovery facility by the
      owner, lessee or sublessee thereof shall be exempt  from  any  mortgage,
      recording,  stamp  or  other  similar  tax  imposed  by the state or any
      municipality or political subdivision thereof, with the same  effect  as
      if  the  environmental  facilities  corporation  were  the owner of such
      facility and  the  mortgagor  or  grantor  of  such  mortgage,  security
      interest  or  lien,  as  the  case  may  be,  and section twelve hundred
      ninety-six of  the  public  authorities  law  were  applicable  to  such
      facility.
        3.  (a)  Pursuant  to  a  joint agreement under article five-G of this
      chapter, the town of Huntington and the town of Smithtown,  without  any
      new  or  additional  competitive  procurement  which  would otherwise be
      required by section one hundred twenty-w of this article, may enter into
      a contract, amendment or supplement with the vendor with which the  town
      of  Huntington  has  previously  executed  a  contract  on or before the
      effective date of this section, for the design, construction, operation,
      financing, ownership or maintenance of a solid waste management-resource
      recovery facility within the town of Huntington as may be necessary  for
      the  purpose  of expanding the facility and the services contemplated by
    
      such original contract in order to accommodate  the  disposal  of  solid
      waste from the town of Smithtown.
        (b)   The  waiver  of  compliance  with  the  competitive  procurement
      provisions of such  section  one  hundred  twenty-w  shall  be  strictly
      limited  in  application  to  the  undertaking  and  completion  of such
      additional design and construction at such facility as is  necessary  to
      accommodate  the  disposal  of  solid  waste from the town of Smithtown.
      Notwithstanding such waiver,  the  provisions  of  section  two  hundred
      twenty  of  the  labor  law  shall  be  applicable  to construction work
      undertaken pursuant to such contract amendment or supplementation.
        (c)  Any  expansion  of  the  proposed  Huntington  resource  recovery
      facility  pursuant  to this section shall be in full accordance with the
      rules and regulations promulgated by  the  department  of  environmental
      conservation for the construction and operation of municipal solid waste
      incineration facilities permitted on or after the effective date of this
      section.
        4. The town of Smithtown shall have the power to adopt and amend local
      laws imposing appropriate and reasonable limitations on competition with
      respect  to  collecting,  receiving,  transporting, delivering, storing,
      processing and disposing of solid waste or the recovery by any means  of
      any  material  or  energy product or resource therefrom, including local
      laws requiring that all solid waste  generated,  originated  or  brought
      within  its  boundaries, subject to such exceptions as may be determined
      to be in the public interest, shall be delivered to  a  specified  solid
      waste management-resource recovery facility; provided, however, that any
      such  local  law  enacted  by  the  town shall take precedence and shall
      supersede any inconsistent provisions of any  local  law  enacted  by  a
      municipality  within  the  town.  Any such local law shall be adopted in
      accordance with the procedure provided by the municipal home  rule  law,
      except  that  no  such local law shall be subject to either mandatory or
      permissive referendum. For purposes of this section  solid  waste  shall
      not  include  any  scrap  or  other material of value separated from the
      waste stream and held for purposes of materials recycling.
        5. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law,  general,  special
      or  local,  relating  to  the  length, duration and terms of contracts a
      municipality may  enter  into,  or  relating  to  the  method  by  which
      contracts  may  be entered into, the town of Huntington may enter into a
      lease, easement or rental agreement relating to the site of the proposed
      Huntington resource recovery facility and to the proposed facilities  to
      be  constructed  thereon with the vendor upon such terms and conditions,
      for such consideration and for such term and  duration,  not  to  exceed
      forty  years,  as  may  be agreed upon by the town of Huntington and the
      vendor, provided that any agreement providing for payment by the town of
      Huntington for resource recovery services to be provided  at  such  site
      may  not  exceed twenty-five years in duration, except as such agreement
      may be extended in accordance with section one hundred twenty-w of  this
      article.
        6.  Notwithstanding  any  inconsistent  provision  of  section  twelve
      hundred ninety of the public authorities law or of any  other  provision
      of  state  law,  the  bonds and any renewals thereof to be issued by the
      environmental facilities corporation for the  purposes  of  constructing
      the  solid  waste  management  resource recovery facility in the town of
      Huntington shall mature at such time as the resolution authorizing  such
      issuance  provides  but not exceeding twenty-five years from the date of
      the original issuance of such bonds.
        7. For purposes of this section, the  term  "vendor"  shall  mean  any
      constructor  or  operator  together with any successors or assigns, of a
      solid waste management-resource recovery facility located in the town of
    
      Huntington and intended to dispose of municipal solid waste pursuant  to
      an agreement with the town of Huntington.