Bill Text: NY A04910 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the public service commission to provide notice, in a city having a population of one million or more, to the appropriate local community board prior to such commission's consideration of granting permission to a gas corporation or electric corporation furnishing utility service to acquire or sell land; such community boards shall also be provided with the opportunity to submit comments and recommendations on the proposed sale or acquisition; directs the public service commission to address and respond to such comments and recommendations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A04910 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A04910-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4910
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 9, 2011
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       Introduced  by M. of A. SIMOTAS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
       AN ACT to amend the public service law, in  relation  to  requiring  the
         public  service  commission to provide the appropriate local community
         board in a city with a population of one million or more  with  notice
         of and opportunity to comment and make recommendations on any proposed
         sale  or acquisition of real property by a gas corporation or electric
         corporation furnishing utility service
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Section 107 of the public service law is amended by adding
    2  a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
    3    3. WITH REGARD TO THE PROPOSED SALE OR ACQUISITION OF REAL PROPERTY BY
    4  ANY GAS CORPORATION OR ELECTRIC CORPORATION FURNISHING  UTILITY  SERVICE
    5  IN  A  CITY  HAVING  A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE, THE COMMISSION
    6  SHALL PROVIDE THE LOCAL COMMUNITY BOARD HAVING  JURISDICTION  OVER  SUCH
    7  REAL  PROPERTY  WITH  NOTICE  OF SUCH PROPOSED TRANSACTION, BY CERTIFIED
    8  MAIL, RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED, WITHIN TEN DAYS OF RECEIVING AN APPLICA-
    9  TION FOR APPROVAL OF THE TRANSACTION. WITHIN THIRTY  DAYS  OF  RECEIVING
   10  SUCH  NOTICE,  A  LOCAL  COMMUNITY  BOARD SHALL SUBMIT TO THE COMMISSION
   11  WRITTEN COMMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ON SUCH PROPOSED  TRANSACTION.  THE
   12  COMMISSION SHALL ADDRESS AND RESPOND TO ALL COMMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
   13  SUBMITTED  BY  A LOCAL COMMUNITY BOARD PRIOR TO MAKING ITS DETERMINATION
   14  OF THE APPLICATION OF THE PUBLIC UTILITY.
   15    S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
   16  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD05783-01-1