Bill Text: NY A04079 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to judiciary [A04079 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04079-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4079

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 9, 2023
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        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:

     1    Section 1. The real property law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  231-c to read as follows:
     3    §  231-c. Community distributed generation facility notice in residen-
     4  tial leases. 1. Every residential lease shall provide conspicuous notice
     5  in bold face type as to the  availability  of  a  community  distributed
     6  generation  facility,  also  known as community solar, as an electricity
     7  provider. The lease shall also provide notice that more information  can
     8  be found on the New York state energy research and development authority
     9  website and may include a link to such authority's website.
    10    2. As used in this section, the term "community distributed generation
    11  facility"  shall mean a photovoltaic system with a rated capacity of not
    12  more than five megawatts of alternating current that is connected to  an
    13  electric  system  and  operated  in  conjunction with an electric corpo-
    14  ration's transmission and distribution facilities.  Participating  elec-
    15  tric  customers  receive  a bill credit for the electricity generated in
    16  proportion to the size of their interest in the facility, with at  least
    17  sixty  percent  of  the facility's production allocated to participating
    18  customers in increments of twenty-five kilowatts or less.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect six months after it shall have  become
    20  a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05274-01-3