Section 536. Certain state lands subject to taxation for school purposes only  


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  • 1. The following state lands shall be  subject  to  taxation  for
      school purposes:
        (a)  Lands  owned  by the state, exclusive of the improvements erected
      thereon by the state, situate in the following school districts:
     
      County                School District               Town
     
      Broome                Common 4, 11                  Kirkwood
      Dutchess              Common 2                      Amenia
                            Common 1, 2                   Beckman
                            Common 6, 8, 9                Dover
                            Common 3, 4                   Fishkill
                            Common 3                      LaGrange
      Erie                  Common 3                      Collins
      Herkimer              Common 11, 12, 13             Russia
      Livingston            Common 7                      Groveland
      Madison               Common 8                      Eaton
      Monroe                Common 1                      Rush
      Oneida                Union free 13                 Westmoreland and
                                                           Rome (city)
      Orange                Common 1                      Cornwall
                            Union free 4, 5               Cornwall
                            Common 2                      Wallkill
                            Common 16                     Warwick
      Orleans               Common 6                      Albion
      Saratoga              Common 5                      Saratoga Springs
                                                            (city)
      Seneca                Common 5                      Ovid and Romulus
      Suffolk               Common 7                      Babylon
                            Common 15                     Babylon and
                                                            Huntington
                            Common 16                     Huntington
                            Union free 12, 13             Islip
                            Common 5                      Smithtown
      Sullivan              Common 4                      Fallsburgh
      Ulster                Union free 2                  Wawarsing
      Westchester           Union free 1                  Ossining
      Wyoming               Common 2, 3                   Attica
     
        (b) Lands owned by the state, exclusive of  the  improvements  erected
      thereon by the state, situate in the following towns:
     
              County                          Town
     
              Cattaraugus                     Carrollton
                                              Cold Spring
                                              Elko
                                              Great Valley
                                              Red House
                                              Salamanca
                                              South Valley
              Clinton                         Ellenburg
              Dutchess                        Hyde Park
                                              Poughkeepsie
              Greene                          Coxsackie
              Oneida                          Lee
                                              Marcy
    
                                              Trenton
                                              Western
              Orange                          Highlands
                                              Tuxedo
                                              Woodbury
              Rockland                        All towns
     
        (c)  Lands  owned  by  the state situate in union free school district
      number one of the towns of Dannemora and Saranac, Clinton county,  Mount
      Morris  central school district number one of the towns of Mount Morris,
      Leicester, Groveland and West Sparta, Livingston  county,  except  state
      lands constituting a portion of Letchworth park, central school district
      number  two of the towns of Fort Ann, Hartford and Kingsbury, Washington
      county,  and  central  school  district  number  one  of  the  towns  of
      Shawangunk,  Plattekill,  Gardiner  and  Marlborough,  Ulster county and
      Newburgh and Montgomery, Orange county, exclusive  of  the  improvements
      erected  thereon by the state or maintained thereon by the state for the
      use of state institutions, except improvements owned by  the  state  and
      occupied  exclusively  for  residential purposes by persons who pay rent
      for  such  occupancy,  or,  if  the  occupants  be  state  officials  or
      employees,  who  either pay such rent or have in their families children
      who attend the school of one of such districts;
        (d) Lands owned by the state, exclusive of  the  improvements  erected
      thereon  by  the  state, situate in common school district number two of
      the town of Genesee Falls, Wyoming county,  constituting  a  portion  of
      Letchworth  park, the title to which was vested in the state on December
      first, nineteen hundred ten.
        (e) Lands owned by the state, within the core preservation area of the
      Central Pine Barrens area as described and bounded by subdivision eleven
      of section 57-0107 of the environmental conservation law, situate in the
      following school districts:
     
      County                School District               Town
     
      Suffolk               Rocky Point Union Free        Brookhaven
                            school district
                            Eastport Union Free school    Brookhaven
                            district                      Southampton
                            Longwood Central school       Brookhaven
                            district
                            Riverhead Central school      Brookhaven
                            district                      Riverhead
                                                          Southampton
                            Hampton Bays Union Free       Southampton
                            school district
        (f) Lands owned by the state, outside of the core preservation area of
      the Central Pine Barrens area as  described  and  bounded  by  paragraph
      eleven of section 57-0107 of the environmental conservation law, situate
      in  the  Riverhead central school district within the town of Riverhead,
      county of Suffolk, where the title holder is listed as the "State of New
      York" on the town of Riverhead's assessment roll as of March  sixteenth,
      two thousand six.
        (g)  Lands  owned  by the state, exclusive of the improvements erected
      thereon by the state, situate in the Smithtown central school  district,
      in  the  county  of Suffolk, constituting lands in the town of Smithtown
      with the following tax identification  number:  district  0800,  section
      0040,  block  0002,  lots  0011,  and lands situate in the Three Village
      central school district, constituting lands in the  town  of  Brookhaven
    
      with  the  following  tax  identification number: district 0200, section
      0273, block 0001, lot 0003.
        2. For the purposes of this section, such school districts, whether or
      not  reorganized,  shall  be  deemed  to  continue  to  exist  with  the
      boundaries that were in effect at the time the state lands therein  were
      first subjected to taxation for school purposes.