Bill Text: NY A04098 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the wireless service industry to report on current and future plans to pursue renewable energy technology to power macrocells; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-12-21 - signed chap.612 [A04098 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04098-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4098

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 9, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CUNNINGHAM  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring  cellu-
          lar  telephone companies and third- party service providers to provide
          plans to the public service commission to make  all  cell  towers  one
          hundred percent renewable energy powered by 2031

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

     1    Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a  new  section
     2  92-j to read as follows:
     3    §  92-j.  Cell towers; renewable energy.  Notwithstanding section five
     4  of this chapter or any other law to the contrary, no later than December
     5  thirty-first, two thousand twenty-five, any cellular  telephone  company
     6  or  third-party  service  provider  who  operates cell towers within the
     7  state shall provide plans to the commission to  make  all  cell  towers,
     8  maintained  and  constructed  by such company or service provider within
     9  the state, one hundred percent renewable energy powered by two  thousand
    10  thirty-one.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06272-01-3