S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N A S S E M B L Y
June 3, 2024
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Fall) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT establishing a moratorium on the adoption and/or implementation
of certain local laws or ordinances, or certain rules or regulations,
by a city with a population of one million or more, related to achiev-
ing certain reductions in greenhouse gas emissions; and providing for
the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. There is hereby established a moratorium on the adoption
and/or implementation of any local law or ordinance, or any rule or
regulation, by a city with a population of one million or more, related
to achieving certain reductions in greenhouse gas emissions which does
not exempt an industrial facility that produces one hundred percent
recycled paper products primarily from recycled paper derived from
covered buildings under such local law.
ยง 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
have been in full force and effect on and after January 1, 2024 and
shall expire and be deemed repealed two hundred seventy days after the
adoption of a local law which re-authorizes, modifies or repeals local
law number 97 of the city of New York for the year 2019, as amended by
local law number 147 of the city of New York for the year 2019 and by
local law number 95 of the city of New York for the year 2020 designat-
ing annual building emission intensity limits and associated penalties
during the term commencing January 1, 2024 and terminating December 31,
2024, or any term commencing thereafter; provided that the mayor of a
city with a population of one million or more shall notify the legisla-
tive bill drafting commission upon the adoption of such local law in
order that the commission may maintain an accurate and timely effective
data base of the official text of the laws of the state of New York in
furtherance of effectuating the provisions of section 44 of the legisla-
tive law and section 70-b of the public officers law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15659-01-4
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