Bill Text: NY S06612 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 6612 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Restricts eminent domain powers of transportation corporations that are electric corporations under certain circumstances where projects extend beyond territorial borders of the United States.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-07 - RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN [S06612 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S06612-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6612
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     March 5, 2012
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       Introduced  by  Sen. MAZIARZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
         cations
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  transportation corporations law, in relation to
         restricting transportation corporations that are electric corporations
         from exercising the right of eminent domain
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  11  of  the  transportation  corporations law is
    2  amended by adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
    3    8. SUBDIVISIONS THREE AND THREE-A OF THIS SECTION SHALL NOT  APPLY  TO
    4  ANY ELECTRIC CORPORATION:
    5    (A)  SEEKING  TO  BUILD  A TRANSMISSION LINE, OR TO EXPAND AN EXISTING
    6  TRANSMISSION LINE, WHICH LINE CONNECTS A LOCATION OUTSIDE OF THE  TERRI-
    7  TORIAL  LIMITS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, TO A LOCATION WITHIN THE
    8  STATE OF NEW YORK AND DOES  NOT  PERMIT  INTERCONNECTION  TO  SAID  LINE
    9  THROUGHOUT  THE  STATE OF NEW YORK BY ANY GENERATION FACILITY OR FACILI-
   10  TIES LOCATED OR PROPOSED TO BE LOCATED IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.    WITH
   11  RESPECT  TO THE AFOREMENTIONED TRANSMISSION LINE, IN THE EVENT INTERCON-
   12  NECTION IS PERMITTED FOR GENERATING FACILITIES THROUGHOUT THE  STATE  OF
   13  NEW  YORK  BY  SAID ELECTRIC CORPORATION, INTERCONNECTION COSTS SHALL BE
   14  PAID ENTIRELY BY SAID ELECTRIC CORPORATION, EXCLUDING COSTS  SUBJECT  TO
   15  ALLOCATION  BY,  AND  SUBJECT  TO  THE  EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION UNDER THE
   16  TARIFFS OF, THE FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION; OR
   17    (B) SEEKING TO BUILD AN ELECTRIC GENERATING FACILITY, OR TO EXPAND  AN
   18  EXISTING  ELECTRIC  GENERATING  FACILITY,  IN  A LOCATION OUTSIDE OF THE
   19  TERRITORIAL LIMITS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TOGETHER WITH  BUILD-
   20  ING  AN ELECTRICAL INTERCONNECTION TO A LOCATION WITHIN THE STATE OF NEW
   21  YORK.
   22    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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