Bill Text: NY S02477 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the public service commission to provide notice, in a city having a population of one million or more, to the appropriate local community board prior to such commission's consideration of granting permission to a gas corporation or electric corporation furnishing utility service to acquire or sell land; establishes that such community boards shall also be provided with the opportunity to submit comments and recommendations on the proposed sale or acquisition; directs the public service commission to address and respond to such comments and recommendations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S02477 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02477-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2477
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 23, 2015
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       Introduced  by Sen. GIANARIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
         cations
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the public service law, in relation to requiring the
         public service commission to provide the appropriate  local  community
         board  in  a city with a population of one million or more with notice
         of and opportunity to comment and make recommendations on any proposed
         sale or acquisition of real property by a gas corporation or  electric
         corporation furnishing utility service
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 107 of the public service law is amended by  adding
    2  a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
    3    3. WITH REGARD TO THE PROPOSED SALE OR ACQUISITION OF REAL PROPERTY BY
    4  ANY  GAS  CORPORATION OR ELECTRIC CORPORATION FURNISHING UTILITY SERVICE
    5  IN A CITY HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION  OR  MORE,  THE  COMMISSION
    6  SHALL  PROVIDE  THE  LOCAL COMMUNITY BOARD HAVING JURISDICTION OVER SUCH
    7  REAL PROPERTY WITH NOTICE OF SUCH  PROPOSED  TRANSACTION,  BY  CERTIFIED
    8  MAIL, RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED, WITHIN TEN DAYS OF RECEIVING AN APPLICA-
    9  TION  FOR  APPROVAL  OF THE TRANSACTION. WITHIN THIRTY DAYS OF RECEIVING
   10  SUCH NOTICE, A LOCAL COMMUNITY BOARD  SHALL  SUBMIT  TO  THE  COMMISSION
   11  WRITTEN  COMMENTS  AND RECOMMENDATIONS ON SUCH PROPOSED TRANSACTION. THE
   12  COMMISSION SHALL ADDRESS AND RESPOND TO ALL COMMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
   13  SUBMITTED BY A LOCAL COMMUNITY BOARD PRIOR TO MAKING  ITS  DETERMINATION
   14  OF THE APPLICATION OF THE PUBLIC UTILITY.
   15    S  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
   16  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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