Bill Text: NY A09611 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits wind turbines from being located within 1500 feet of a residential area or commercial shopping district within the city of New York.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-27 - referred to cities [A09611 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A09611-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9611

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 27, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BENEDETTO  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Cities

        AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
          relation  to  prohibiting wind turbines from being located within 1500
          feet of residential areas and/or commercial shopping districts

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subchapter 7 of chapter 1 of title 27 of the administrative
     2  code  of  the  city of New York is amended by adding a new article 23 to
     3  read as follows:
     4                                  ARTICLE 23
     5                                WIND TURBINES

     6    Section 27-521.17 Wind turbines.
     7    § 27-521.17  Wind  turbines.  No  wind  turbines  shall  be   located,
     8  constructed,  or  operated  within  one  thousand five hundred feet of a
     9  residential area and/or a commercial shopping district.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14744-04-0