STATE OF NEW YORK
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1823
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 14, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Cultural Affairs, Tourism,
Parks and Recreation
AN ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law, in
relation to requiring solar panels on installed light fixtures
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The parks, recreation and historic preservation law is
2 amended by adding a new section 13.08 to read as follows:
3 § 13.08 Requirement of solar panels on light fixtures. 1. Notwith-
4 standing any other provision of law, the office shall require solar
5 panels on any light fixtures installed on all lands, including state
6 parks and parkways, under the jurisdiction of the office.
7 2. The provisions of this section shall not apply to:
8 (a) Light fixtures that have a historic design that the office deter-
9 mines shall be unduly burdened by solar panels; and
10 (b) Light fixtures that the office determines don't receive adequate
11 sunlight, including but not limited to tunnels and underpasses.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05087-01-5
