STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8453
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      June 16, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. BARNWELL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Cities
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  administrative code of the city of New York, in
          relation to the authority to contract for energy
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  22-302 of the administrative code of the city of
     2  New York is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 22-302 Acquisition of energy and facilities. The city shall contract
     4  for or otherwise purchase or acquire hydroelectric  or  other  forms  of
     5  energy  as  shall  be available from the power authority of the state of
     6  New York, the state, any state agency, any other municipal  corporation,
     7  or any private or public corporation, and shall arrange to use, lease or
     8  acquire  the transmission, substation and distribution facilities neces-
     9  sary to furnish such power to the city and, for compensation,  to  resi-
    10  dential,  commercial, industrial and other customers; provided, however,
    11  that the city will not acquire or build any electric or gas transmission
    12  or distribution facilities which are  parallel  to,  or  duplicative  of
    13  electric  or  gas transmission or distribution facilities of any utility
    14  companies within the city, nor take any action to impair any agreements,
    15  franchises, rights or obligations of any utility company within the city
    16  including, to provide safe, adequate and efficient  service  to  conduct
    17  its  business in the city and to protect its assets unless so authorized
    18  by further local law and public referendum.
    19    Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, rule,  regulation,  policy,
    20  order  or  executive action to the contrary, the city shall not contract
    21  for or otherwise purchase energy or environmental attributes  associated
    22  with  energy  from  the power authority of the state of New York, or any
    23  individual, trustee,  partnership,  association,  corporation,  company,
    24  municipality, state, political subdivision or other legal entity if such
    25  energy  is transmitted over an electric transmission line, including but
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  not limited to a high voltage direct current electric transmission line,
     2  that enters commercial operation after the effective date of the chapter
     3  of the laws of two thousand seventeen that added this paragraph and that
     4  interconnects  a  location  outside the territorial limits of the United
     5  States to a location within the state of New York and such  transmission
     6  line  does  not  provide  access within the state to electric generating
     7  facilities located within the state of New York to transmit energy to  a
     8  location within the state of New York.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.