Bill Text: NY S09547 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9547

                    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

        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 a municipality  within
     7  the  county  of  Westchester  pursuant  to  subdivision  four of section
     8  52-0901 of this title with funds made available pursuant to  this  title
     9  may  be  sold or disposed of or used for other than public park purposes
    10  without the express authority of an act of  the  legislature,  and  when
    11  such sale or disposal 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 currently used for vehicle parking.
    17    §  2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to alien-
    18  ations of parkland for renewable energy generating projects in the coun-
    19  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.
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