Relates to requiring cellular telephone companies and third-party service providers to provide plans to the public service commission to make all cell towers one hundred percent renewable energy powered by 2031.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4305
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 7, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
cations
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring cellu-
lar telephone companies and third- party service providers to provide
plans to the public service commission to make all cell towers one
hundred percent renewable energy powered by 2031
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a new section
2 92-j to read as follows:
3 § 92-j. Cell towers; renewable energy. Notwithstanding section five
4 of this chapter or any other law to the contrary, no later than December
5 thirty-first, two thousand twenty-five, any cellular telephone company
6 or third-party service provider who operates cell towers within the
7 state shall provide plans to the commission to make all cell towers,
8 maintained and constructed by such company or service provider within
9 the state, one hundred percent renewable energy powered by two thousand
10 thirty-one.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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