Town of Amherst, NY
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2023-07-24
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 175 Taxation
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Article II Tax Exemption for Businesses
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 4 Administration of Government
- Ch 5 Design Advisory Board
- Ch 6 Arts and Culture in Public Places Board
- Ch 7 Amherst Central Park Task Force
- Ch 8 Citizens' Advisory Committees
- Ch 9 Clerk
- Ch 10 Compensation
- Ch 11 Continuity of Government
- Ch 12 Employee Suggestion Program
- Ch 14 Defense and Indemnification of Employees
- Ch 14A Disabilities, Committee on
- Ch 15 (Reserved)
- Ch 16 Employees' Rights of Organization
- Ch 19 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 22 Freedom of Information
- Ch 25 Industrial and Commercial Incentive Board
- Ch 28 Local Laws, Adoption of
- Ch 32 Minority- and Women-Owned Business Utilization Commitment
- Ch 36 Open Burning
- Ch 39 Police Assistance, Power to Grant
- Ch 40 Purchasing
- Ch 42 Property, Lease or Sale
- Ch 43 Licensing of Property Managers
- Ch 44 Rental Unit Registration
- Ch 45 Residency Requirements
- Ch 52 Superintendent of Highways
- Ch 54 Supervisor
- Ch 55 Term Limits
- Ch 56 Tax Bill Enclosures
- Ch 56A Town Board
- Ch 57 Traffic Violations Bureau
- Ch 58 Adjudicatory Proceedings
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 65 Alarms
- Ch 68 Amusements
- Ch 74 (Reserved)
- Ch 77 Bingo
- Ch 78 Blasting and Explosives
- Ch 79 Boats
- Ch 83 Building Construction Administration
- Ch 85 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 87 Cable Television
- Ch 89 (Reserved)
- Ch 92 Conservation Easements
- Ch 95 Curb Cuts
- Ch 96 (Reserved)
- Ch 99 Animals
- Ch 103 Emergency Responder Radio Coverage
- Ch 104 Environmental Quality Review
- Ch 106 Excavations
- Ch 108 Expert Fees, Reimbursement of
- Ch 110 Fire Prevention
- Ch 114 Games of Chance
- Ch 116 (Reserved)
- Ch 118 Gasoline
- Ch 119 Geodetic Control Point Network
- Ch 120 Highways, Controlled-Access
- Ch 121 Historic Preservation
- Ch 122 House Trailers
- Ch 125 Improvements, Construction of Public
- Ch 126 Industrial Cost Recovery System
- Ch 127 (Reserved)
- Ch 129 Junkyards
- Ch 130 Landscapers
- Ch 132 Lighting
- Ch 138 Noise
- Ch 139 Notification of Defects
- Ch 140 Mailbox Setback
- Ch 143 Parking for Handicapped
- Ch 144 Parking, Off-Street
- Ch 145 Parks, Playgrounds and Recreation Areas
- Ch 148 Peddling, Soliciting, Transient Businesses and Mobile Food Vending
- Ch 149 Picketing
- Ch 151 Property Maintenance
- Ch 152 Public Nuisance Abatement
- Ch 153 Municipal Opioid Cost Recovery and Public Nuisance
- Ch 155 Recreation and Open Space
- Ch 157 Secondhand Dealers
- Ch 158 Sewer Rates
- Ch 160 Sewers
- Ch 163 Sex Offenders, Registration of
- Ch 166 Snowplowing
- Ch 167 Social Host Liability
- Ch 169 Solid Waste
- Ch 172 Stormwater and Erosion Control; Illicit Discharges
- Ch 175 Taxation
- Ch 175 Art II Tax Exemption for Businesses
- § 175-5 Exemption established.
- § 175-6 Agreements.
- § 175-7 Severability.
- § 175-8 When effective.
- Ch 177 Taxicabs
- Ch 179 Trees
- Ch 181 (Reserved)
- Ch 184 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 186 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 189 Vehicles, Removal and Storage of
- Ch 191 Vending Machines
- Ch 194 (Reserved)
- Ch 198 Weapons
- Ch 199 Wild Waterfowl
- Ch 200 Wetlands
- Ch 203 Zoning
- Ch 204 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 205 Local Waterfront Revitalization Program (Lwrp)
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted 12-6-1976 by L.L. No. 8-1976]
Eligible business facilities located in that part of the Town
of Amherst, Erie County, New York, outside the boundaries of the Village
of Williamsville, and as defined in the New York State Commerce Law
§ 115,[1] and certified by the New York State Job Incentive Board
shall be exempt from taxes and special ad valorem levies imposed by
or on behalf of the Town in the total amount allowable as computed
pursuant to applicable provisions of the laws of the State of New
York. Such exemption shall be granted upon application made pursuant
to the provisions of the New York State Real Property Tax Law § 485.[2] All procedures in connection with such exemptions shall
be as set forth in all applicable laws of the State of New York and
of the Town of Amherst presently in force or as subsequently amended.
The Town Board may enter into agreements, in such cases as it deems appropriate, for payments to be made in lieu of the taxes and special ad valorem levies on business facilities exempt therefrom under the provisions of § 175-5.
If any section, clause or provision of this article or the application
thereof to any person, association, corporation or other entity or
real property is adjudged to be invalid, the adjudication shall not
affect other sections, clauses or provisions or the application thereof
which can be sustained or given effect without the invalid section,
clause or provision or application, and to this end the various sections,
clauses and provisions of this article are declared to be severable.
This article shall take effect immediately.
