Bill Text: NY S09547 | 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: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-05 - referred to environmental conservation [S09547 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09547-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9547--A

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 16, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed 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.
                                                                   LBD15514-04-4