Provides an exemption from requirements for the alienation of parkland for renewable energy generating projects in the county of Westchester with a generating capacity not exceeding two megawatts and which are located above real property that was established and used for vehicle parking.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10226--A
IN ASSEMBLY
May 14, 2024
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Levenberg,
Burdick) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental
Conservation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
providing an exemption from requirements for the alienation of park-
land for renewable energy generating projects in the county of West-
chester
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a
2 new section 52-0908 to read as follows:
3 § 52-0908. Restriction on alienation exemption in Westchester county;
4 renewable energy generating projects.
5 Notwithstanding section 52-0907 of this title, real property acquired,
6 developed, improved, restored or rehabilitated by the county of West-
7 chester pursuant to subdivision four of section 52-0901 of this title
8 with funds made available pursuant to this title may be sold or disposed
9 of or used for other than public park purposes without the express
10 authority of an act of the legislature, and when such sale or disposal
11 occurs it:
12 1. applies only to the sale or disposal or rights to airspace directly
13 above such real property; and
14 2. is for the construction, installation and/or operation of a solar
15 energy project not to exceed two megawatts of generating capacity and
16 which is located above real property that was established and used for
17 vehicle parking prior to the effective date of this section.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to alien-
19 ations of parkland for renewable energy generating projects in the coun-
20 ty of Westchester occurring on or after such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15514-03-4