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Assembly Bill A4080

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring every residential lease to provide conspicuous notice of the availability of community solar for the provision of a tenant's electricity needs

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2025-A4080 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
Real Property Law
Laws Affected:
Add §231-d, RP L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A4079

2025-A4080 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to requiring every residential lease to provide conspicuous notice of the availability of community solar for the provision of a tenant's electricity needs.

2025-A4080 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4080
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 31, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CUNNINGHAM  -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Judiciary
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation  to  requiring  every
   residential lease to provide conspicuous notice of the availability of
   community solar for the provision of a tenant's electricity needs

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The real property law is amended by adding  a  new  section
 231-d to read as follows:
   §  231-D. COMMUNITY DISTRIBUTED GENERATION FACILITY NOTICE IN RESIDEN-
 TIAL LEASES. 1. EVERY RESIDENTIAL LEASE SHALL PROVIDE CONSPICUOUS NOTICE
 IN BOLD FACE TYPE AS TO THE  AVAILABILITY  OF  A  COMMUNITY  DISTRIBUTED
 GENERATION  FACILITY,  ALSO  KNOWN AS COMMUNITY SOLAR, AS AN ELECTRICITY
 PROVIDER. THE LEASE SHALL ALSO PROVIDE NOTICE THAT MORE INFORMATION  CAN
 BE FOUND ON THE NEW YORK STATE ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
 WEBSITE AND MAY INCLUDE A LINK TO SUCH AUTHORITY'S WEBSITE.
   2. AS USED IN THIS SECTION, THE TERM "COMMUNITY DISTRIBUTED GENERATION
 FACILITY"  SHALL MEAN A PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM WITH A RATED CAPACITY OF NOT
 MORE THAN FIVE MEGAWATTS OF ALTERNATING CURRENT THAT IS CONNECTED TO  AN
 ELECTRIC  SYSTEM  AND  OPERATED  IN  CONJUNCTION WITH AN ELECTRIC CORPO-
 RATION'S TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION FACILITIES.  PARTICIPATING  ELEC-
 TRIC  CUSTOMERS  RECEIVE  A BILL CREDIT FOR THE ELECTRICITY GENERATED IN
 PROPORTION TO THE SIZE OF THEIR INTEREST IN THE FACILITY, WITH AT  LEAST
 SIXTY  PERCENT  OF  THE FACILITY'S PRODUCTION ALLOCATED TO PARTICIPATING
 CUSTOMERS IN INCREMENTS OF TWENTY-FIVE KILOWATTS OR LESS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect six months after it shall have  become
 a law.
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02317-01-5

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