S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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10477
I N A S S E M B L Y
May 29, 2024
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Woerner) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Energy
AN ACT to amend the energy law, in relation to authorizing existing
building projects to continue when the fossil fuel ban takes effect
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 6 of section 11-104 of the
energy law, as added by section 1 of part RR of chapter 56 of the laws
of 2023, is amended to read as follows:
(b) In addition to the foregoing, to support the goal of zero on-site
greenhouse gas emissions and help achieve the state's clean energy and
climate agenda, including but not limited to greenhouse gas reduction
requirements set forth within chapter one hundred six of the laws of two
thousand nineteen, also known as the New York state climate leadership
and community protection act, the code shall prohibit the installation
of fossil-fuel equipment and building systems, in any new building not
more than seven stories in height, except for a new commercial or indus-
trial building greater than one hundred thousand square feet in condi-
tioned floor area, on or after December thirty-first, two thousand twen-
ty-five, and the code shall prohibit the installation of fossil-fuel
equipment and building systems, in all new buildings after December
thirty-first, two thousand twenty-eight. SUCH PROHIBITION SHALL NOT
APPLY TO ANY NEW BUILDING FOR WHICH A SITE PLAN, TENTATIVE MAP OR SUBDI-
VISION PLAT HAS BEEN APPROVED BY THE LOCAL PLANNING BOARD, OR FOR WHICH
A BUILDING PERMIT HAS BEEN ISSUED, PRIOR TO SUCH DATES.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15610-01-4
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