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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         6523--A
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                      June 14, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sens.  PARKER, HARCKHAM, MAYER -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules --
          recommitted to the  Committee  on  Energy  and  Telecommunications  in
          accordance  with  Senate  Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  general municipal law, in relation to municipal
          sustainable energy loan programs
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Section  119-ff of the general municipal law, as added by
     2  chapter 497 of the laws of 2009, subdivision 6 as amended by chapter 320
     3  of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
     4    § 119-ff. Definitions. For purposes of this article:
     5    1. "Authority" means the New York state energy research  and  develop-
     6  ment  authority,  as  defined  by  subdivision  two  of section eighteen
     7  hundred fifty-one of the public authorities law, or its successor.
     8    2. "Credit support" means and includes direct loans, letters of  cred-
     9  it,  loan  guarantees,  and  insurance  products; and the purchase of or
    10  commitment to purchase, or the sale  of  or  commitment  to  sell,  debt
    11  instruments, including subordinated securities.
    12    3.  "Energy audit" means a formal evaluation of the energy consumption
    13  of a permanent building or  structural  improvement  to  real  property,
    14  conducted  by a contractor certified by the authority, or certified by a
    15  certifying entity approved by the authority for purposes of  this  arti-
    16  cle,  for  the  purpose  of  identifying  appropriate  energy efficiency
    17  improvements that could be made to or incorporated into the construction
    18  of the property. A municipal corporation may, by local law, provide  for
    19  the  certification  of  such contractors based upon criteria at least as
    20  stringent as the state-wide criteria for certification  adopted  by  the
    21  authority for purposes of this article.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    4.  "Energy  efficiency improvement" means [and includes] any improve-
     2  ment to real property, whether as a component of the new construction of
     3  a building or as the renovation  or  retrofitting  of  [a]  an  existing
     4  building  to reduce energy consumption, such as window and door replace-
     5  ment, lighting, caulking, weatherstripping, air sealing, insulation, and
     6  heating  and  cooling  system upgrades, and similar improvements, deter-
     7  mined to be cost-effective  pursuant  to  criteria  established  by  the
     8  authority.  However,  "energy  efficiency improvement" shall not include
     9  lighting measures or household appliances that are not permanently fixed
    10  to real property.
    11    5. "Municipal corporation" means a county, town, city or village.
    12    6. "Real property" means any property, an interest in which is  or  is
    13  eligible  to  be  recorded  or  registered  on  municipal land ownership
    14  records by the possessor of such interest.
    15    7. "Renewable energy system" means an energy generating system for the
    16  generation of electric or thermal energy, to be used primarily  at  such
    17  property, except when the owner of real property is a commercial entity,
    18  by means of solar thermal, solar photovoltaic, wind, geothermal, anaero-
    19  bic  digester  gas-to-electricity  systems,  fuel  cell technologies, or
    20  other renewable energy technology approved by the authority not  includ-
    21  ing the combustion or pyrolysis of solid waste.
    22    [7.]  8.  "Renewable  energy system feasibility study" means a written
    23  study, conducted by a contractor certified by the authority,  or  certi-
    24  fied  by  a  certifying entity approved by the authority for purposes of
    25  this article, for the purpose of determining the feasibility of install-
    26  ing a renewable energy system. A municipal  corporation  may,  by  local
    27  law, provide for the certification of such contractors based upon crite-
    28  ria  at  least as stringent as the state-wide criteria for certification
    29  adopted by the authority for purposes of this article.
    30    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.