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Assembly Bill A9739

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to solar arrays on certain eligible school buildings

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2021-A9739 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §409-n, Ed L

2021-A9739 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires solar arrays on certain eligible school buildings; defines "eligible school building" to be a building which, with no major modification, could successfully house solar arrays; exempts such expenditures from provisions of the tax cap.

2021-A9739 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9739
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 28, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. GALEF -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  solar  arrays  on
   certain eligible school buildings
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section  409-n
 to read as follows:
   §  409-N.  SOLAR  ARRAYS  ON  SCHOOL BUILDINGS. 1. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY
 OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, RULE OR REGULATION, EVERY SCHOOL  DISTRICT  WITH
 LESS  THAN  ONE  MILLION  RESIDENTS SHALL DEVELOP A PLAN TO DEPLOY SOLAR
 ARRAYS ON THE ROOFS OF TWENTY PERCENT OF ELIGIBLE SCHOOL BUILDINGS.
   2. IF THE PROVISIONS OF THE LOCAL FINANCE LAW RELATING TO  BONDING  IS
 COMPLETED,  SUCH  SOLAR  ARRAYS SHALL BE INSTALLED BY JANUARY FIRST, TWO
 THOUSAND TWENTY-SEVEN. BY JANUARY  FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND  THIRTY,  FIFTY
 PERCENT  OF  ELIGIBLE  SCHOOL BUILDINGS SHALL USE SOLAR POWER AND BY TWO
 THOUSAND THIRTY-FIVE, ONE HUNDRED PERCENT OF ELIGIBLE  SCHOOL  BUILDINGS
 SHALL USE SOLAR POWER.
   3.  ANY  EXPENDITURES NECESSARY FOR COMPLIANCE WITH THIS SECTION SHALL
 BE EXEMPT FROM SECTION THREE-C OF THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW.
   4. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, AN ELIGIBLE SCHOOL BUILDING SHALL
 BE A BUILDING WHICH, WITH  NO  MAJOR  MODIFICATION,  COULD  SUCCESSFULLY
 HOUSE SOLAR ARRAYS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15138-01-2

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