| Date of Action |
Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
|---|---|
| May 07, 2012 |
recommit, enacting clause stricken |
| Mar 05, 2012 |
referred to energy and telecommunications |
Senate Bill S6612
2011-2012 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - Stricken
Actions
co-Sponsors
(R, C) 60th Senate District
(R, C) 53rd Senate District
2011-S6612 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Law Section:
- Transportation Corporations Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยง11, Transp Corps L
2011-S6612 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S6612
TITLE OF BILL:
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
PURPOSE:
To limit efforts to use eminent domain to public purposes.
SUMMARY OF PROVISION:
Provides that electric corporations that seek to
build transmission lines connecting a location outside the
territorial limits of the United States, to a location within the
State of New York, or electric corporations seeking to build an
electric facility outside the United States and inter-collecting to
a location within the State, shall not be afforded the power of
eminent domain.
JUSTIFICATION:
The power of eminent domain should be used to achieve
public purposes that inure to the benefit of the State. Transmission
and generation projects that originate outside the territorial limits
of the United States do not sufficiently benefit New York State and
do not encourage employment opportunities or economic development
2011-S6612 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________
6612
I N S E N A T E
March 5, 2012
___________
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:
Section 1. Section 11 of the transportation corporations law is
amended by adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
8. SUBDIVISIONS THREE AND THREE-A OF THIS SECTION SHALL NOT APPLY TO
ANY ELECTRIC CORPORATION:
(A) SEEKING TO BUILD A TRANSMISSION LINE, OR TO EXPAND AN EXISTING
TRANSMISSION LINE, WHICH LINE CONNECTS A LOCATION OUTSIDE OF THE TERRI-
TORIAL LIMITS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, TO A LOCATION WITHIN THE
STATE OF NEW YORK AND DOES NOT PERMIT INTERCONNECTION TO SAID LINE
THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF NEW YORK BY ANY GENERATION FACILITY OR FACILI-
TIES LOCATED OR PROPOSED TO BE LOCATED IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK. WITH
RESPECT TO THE AFOREMENTIONED TRANSMISSION LINE, IN THE EVENT INTERCON-
NECTION IS PERMITTED FOR GENERATING FACILITIES THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF
NEW YORK BY SAID ELECTRIC CORPORATION, INTERCONNECTION COSTS SHALL BE
PAID ENTIRELY BY SAID ELECTRIC CORPORATION, EXCLUDING COSTS SUBJECT TO
ALLOCATION BY, AND SUBJECT TO THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION UNDER THE
TARIFFS OF, THE FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION; OR
(B) SEEKING TO BUILD AN ELECTRIC GENERATING FACILITY, OR TO EXPAND AN
EXISTING ELECTRIC GENERATING FACILITY, IN A LOCATION OUTSIDE OF THE
TERRITORIAL LIMITS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TOGETHER WITH BUILD-
ING AN ELECTRICAL INTERCONNECTION TO A LOCATION WITHIN THE STATE OF NEW
YORK.
S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14893-01-2
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