Bill Text: NY A10226 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides an exemption from requirements for the alienation of parkland for renewable energy generating projects in the county of Westchester with a generating capacity not exceeding two megawatts and which are located above real property that was established and used for vehicle parking.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-20 - print number 10226a [A10226 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10226-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                        10226--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 14, 2024
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Levenberg,
          Burdick) -- read once and referred to the Committee  on  Environmental
          Conservation  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
          as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          providing  an  exemption from requirements for the alienation of park-
          land for renewable energy generating projects in the county  of  West-
          chester

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

     1    Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by  adding  a
     2  new section 52-0908 to read as follows:
     3  § 52-0908. Restriction  on  alienation  exemption in Westchester county;
     4               renewable energy generating projects.
     5    Notwithstanding section 52-0907 of this title, real property acquired,
     6  developed, improved, restored or rehabilitated by the  county  of  West-
     7  chester  pursuant  to  subdivision four of section 52-0901 of this title
     8  with funds made available pursuant to this title may be sold or disposed
     9  of or used for other than  public  park  purposes  without  the  express
    10  authority  of  an act of the legislature, and when such sale or disposal
    11  occurs it:
    12    1. applies only to the sale or disposal or rights to airspace directly
    13  above such real property; and
    14    2. is for the construction, installation and/or operation of  a  solar
    15  energy  project  not  to exceed two megawatts of generating capacity and
    16  which is located above real property that was established and  used  for
    17  vehicle parking prior to the effective date of this section.
    18    §  2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to alien-
    19  ations of parkland for renewable energy generating projects in the coun-
    20  ty of Westchester occurring on or after such date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15514-03-4