Bill Text: NY A09763 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires solar arrays on certain eligible municipal buildings; defines "eligible municipal building" to be a building which, with no major modification, could successfully house solar arrays; exempts such expenditures from provisions of the tax cap.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-29 - referred to local governments [A09763 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A09763-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9763

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 29, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. GALEF -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Local Governments

        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to  solar  arrays
          on certain municipal buildings

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

     1    Section 1. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new  arti-
     2  cle 5-M to read as follows:

     3                                 ARTICLE 5-M
     4                     SOLAR ARRAYS ON MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS

     5  Section 119-mm. Solar arrays on municipal buildings.
     6    §  119-mm. Solar arrays on municipal buildings. 1. Notwithstanding any
     7  other provision of law, rule or regulation, every municipality with less
     8  than one million residents shall develop a plan to deploy  solar  arrays
     9  on the roofs of twenty percent of eligible municipal buildings.
    10    2.  If  the provisions of the local finance law relating to bonding is
    11  completed, such solar arrays shall be installed by  January  first,  two
    12  thousand  twenty-seven.  By  January  first,  two thousand thirty, fifty
    13  percent of eligible buildings shall use solar power and by two  thousand
    14  thirty-five,  one  hundred percent of eligible buildings shall use solar
    15  power.
    16    3. Any expenditures necessary for compliance with this  section  shall
    17  be exempt from section three-c of this chapter.
    18    4.  For  the  purposes of this section, an eligible municipal building
    19  shall be a building which, with no major modification, could successful-
    20  ly house solar arrays.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    22  it shall have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15137-01-2