Requires general purpose lights used in all public buildings to meet certain energy efficiency standards; standards increase over time.

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A2227A-2011 Actions

• Jan 5, 2012: print number 2227a
• Jan 5, 2012: amend and recommit to energy
• Jan 4, 2012: referred to energy
• Jan 14, 2011: referred to energy

A2227A-2011 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   2227--A

                         2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  ASSEMBLY

                              January 14, 2011
                                 ___________

  Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
    on Energy -- recommitted to the Committee on Energy in accordance with
    Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
    reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

  AN  ACT  to  amend  the  energy  law,  in relation to the use of general
    purpose lights in public buildings

    THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
  BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


    Section  1. Section 8-103 of the energy law, as amended by chapter 744
  of the laws of 1979, is amended to read as follows:

    S 8-103. Application. 1. On or before April  first,  nineteen  hundred
  eighty, the commissioner shall promulgate, and thereafter may amend from
  time  to time, standards relating to the lighting of all existing build-
  ings, or classes of such  buildings,  for  purposes  of  minimizing  the
  consumption of energy and providing for the efficient utilization of the
  energy expended for lighting in the use and occupancy of such buildings.
  Such  standards  shall be cost effective and shall not impair the health
  and safety of the occupants of the  property.  The  standards  shall  be
  deemed cost effective if the cost of implementing them would be equal to
  or  less  than  the present value of energy and maintenance savings that
  would be expected over a seven-year period in a building  to  which  the
  standards  are applicable.  PROVIDED HOWEVER, ON AND AFTER THE EFFECTIVE
  DATE OF THE CHAPTER OF THE LAWS OF TWO  THOUSAND  TWELVE  WHICH  AMENDED
  THIS  SECTION,  ALL  GENERAL  PURPOSE LIGHTS USED IN PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN
  THIS STATE SHALL MEET THE ENERGY  EFFICIENCY  STANDARDS  ESTABLISHED  IN
  SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION.
    2.  THE MINIMUM ENERGY EFFICIENCY STANDARDS FOR A GENERAL SERVICE LAMP
  USED IN A PUBLIC BUILDING IN THE STATE SHALL BE AS FOLLOWS:

    (A) BY JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND FIFTEEN, FOR A LAMP  WITH  A  LUMEN
  OUTPUT OF BETWEEN TWENTY-SIX HUNDRED NINETY AND FOURTEEN HUNDRED NINETY,
  THE LAMP SHALL ACHIEVE FIFTY LUMENS PER WATT.

   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                             LBD05114-03-1

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    (B)  BY  JANUARY  FIRST, TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN, FOR A LAMP WITH A LUMEN
  OUTPUT OF BETWEEN FOURTEEN HUNDRED EIGHTY-NINE AND ONE THOUSAND TEN, THE
  LAMP SHALL ACHIEVE FIFTY LUMENS PER WATT.
    (C)  BY JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND SEVENTEEN, FOR A LAMP WITH A LUMEN
  OUTPUT OF BETWEEN ONE THOUSAND NINE AND SEVEN HUNDRED THIRTY,  THE  LAMP
  SHALL ACHIEVE FIFTY LUMENS PER WATT.
    (D) BY JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-ONE, FOR A LAMP WITH A LUMEN
  OUTPUT OF BETWEEN SEVEN HUNDRED TWENTY-NINE AND THREE HUNDRED FORTY, THE
  LAMP SHALL ACHIEVE FORTY LUMENS PER WATT.
    3. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION:

    (A) "GENERAL SERVICE LAMP" MEANS A STANDARD TYPE LAMP THAT IS INTENDED
  FOR GENERAL SERVICE APPLICATIONS AND HAS ALL OF THE FOLLOWING:

    (I) A MEDIUM SCREW BASE;
    (II) A WATTAGE RATING OF NO LESS THAN TWENTY-FIVE WATTS AND NO GREATER
  THAN ONE HUNDRED FIFTY WATTS;
    (III)  A  A-15,  A-19, A-21, A-23, A-25, PS-25, PS-30, BT-14.5, BT-15,
  CP-19, TB-19, CA-22, OR EQUIVALENT SHAPE  AS  DEFINED  IN  THE  AMERICAN
  NATIONAL STANDARDS INSTITUTE C78.20-2003; AND
    (IV) A BULB FINISH OF FROSTED, CLEAR, OR SOFT WHITE TYPE.
    A GENERAL SERVICE LAMP DOES NOT INCLUDE AN APPLIANCE LAMP, BLACK LIGHT
  LAMP,  BUG  LAMP,  COLORED  LAMP, ENHANCED SPECTRUM LAMP, INFRARED LAMP,
  LEFT-HAND TREAD LAMP, MARINE LAMP,  MARINE  SIGNAL  SERVICE  LAMP,  MINE
  SERVICE  LAMP,  PLANT LIGHT, REFLECTOR LAMP, ROUGH SERVICE LAMP, SHATTER
  RESISTANT LAMP, SIGN SERVICE LAMP,  SILVER  BOWL  LAMP,  SHOWCASE  LAMP,
  THREE-WAY  LAMP,  TRAFFIC  SIGNAL LAMP OR VIBRATION SERVICE OR VIBRATION
  RESISTANT LAMP.
    (B) "PUBLIC BUILDING" SHALL MEAN ALL BUILDINGS INCLUDING  GROUNDS  AND
  PREMISES  ADJACENT OR APPURTENANT THERETO OR CONNECTED THERETO BELONGING
  TO THE STATE, COUNTY, TOWN, VILLAGE, SCHOOL DISTRICT OR ANY OTHER  POLI-
  TICAL OR CIVIL SUBDIVISION OF STATE OR LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
    S  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.