Requires solar arrays on certain eligible school buildings; defines "eligible school building" to be a building which, with no major modification, could successfully house solar arrays; exempts such expenditures from provisions of the tax cap.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9739
IN ASSEMBLY
March 28, 2022
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Introduced by M. of A. GALEF -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to solar arrays on
certain eligible school buildings
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 409-n
2 to read as follows:
3 § 409-n. Solar arrays on school buildings. 1. Notwithstanding any
4 other provision of law, rule or regulation, every school district with
5 less than one million residents shall develop a plan to deploy solar
6 arrays on the roofs of twenty percent of eligible school buildings.
7 2. If the provisions of the local finance law relating to bonding is
8 completed, such solar arrays shall be installed by January first, two
9 thousand twenty-seven. By January first, two thousand thirty, fifty
10 percent of eligible school buildings shall use solar power and by two
11 thousand thirty-five, one hundred percent of eligible school buildings
12 shall use solar power.
13 3. Any expenditures necessary for compliance with this section shall
14 be exempt from section three-c of the general municipal law.
15 4. For the purposes of this section, an eligible school building shall
16 be a building which, with no major modification, could successfully
17 house solar arrays.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
19 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15138-01-2
