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Timestamp: 2018-08-18 20:15:57
Document Index: 38344050

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 250', '§ 250', '§ 250', '§ 250', '§ 250', '§ 250', '§ 250']

Town of Riverhead, NY Municipal Building Energy Benchmarking
§ 250-4 Benchmarking required for covered municipal buildings.
§ 250-5 Disclosure and publication of benchmarking information.
§ 250-6 Maintenance of records.
§ 250-7 Enforcement and administration.
§ 250-8 When effective.
Chapter 250: Municipal Building Energy Benchmarking
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Riverhead7-24-2017 by L.L. No. 14-2017. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Chapter 250 : Municipal Building Energy Benchmarking
Buildings are the single largest user of energy in the State of New York. The poorest performing buildings typically use several times the energy of the highest performing buildings for the exact same building use. As such, this chapter will use building energy benchmarking to promote the public health, safety, and welfare by making available good actionable information on municipal building energy use to help identify opportunities to cut costs and reduce pollution in the Town of Riverhead. Collecting, reporting and sharing building energy benchmarking data on a regular basis allows municipal officials and the public to understand the energy performance of municipal buildings relative to similar buildings nationwide. Equipped with this information, the Town of Riverhead is able to make smarter, more cost-effective operational and capital investment decisions, reward efficiency, and drive widespread continuous improvement.
A building or facility that is owned or occupied by the Town of Riverhead that is 1,000 square feet or larger in size.
Office of the Town Engineer.
Electricity, natural gas, steam, hot or chilled water, fuel oil, or other product for use in a building or renewable on-site electricity generation, for purposes of providing heating, cooling, lighting, water heating, or for powering or fueling other end-uses in the building and related facilities, as reflected in utility bills or other documentation of actual energy use.
This chapter is applicable to all covered municipal buildings as defined in § 250-2 of this chapter.
The Town Engineer may exempt a particular covered municipal building from the benchmarking requirement if the Town Engineer determines that it has characteristics that make benchmarking impractical.
No later than December 31, 2017, and no later than May 1 every year thereafter, the Town Engineer or his or her designee from the Department shall enter into Portfolio Manager the total energy consumed by each covered municipal building, along with all other descriptive information required by Portfolio Manager for the previous calendar year.
For new covered municipal buildings that have not accumulated 12 months of energy use data by the first applicable date following occupancy for inputting energy use into Portfolio Manager, the Town Engineer or his or her designee from the Department shall begin inputting data in the following year.
Annual summary statistics, including site EUI weather normalized source EUI, annual GHG emissions, and an energy performance score where available; and
A comparison of the annual summary statistics [as required by § 250-5B(2)(c) of this chapter] across calendar years for all years since annual reporting under this chapter has been required for said building.
The Town Engineer or his or her designee from the Department shall be the Chief Enforcement Officer of this chapter.
Within 30 days after each anniversary date of the effective date of this chapter, the Chief Enforcement Officer shall submit a report to the Town Board of the Town of Riverhead, including but not limited to summary statistics on energy consumption for covered municipal buildings derived from aggregation of benchmarking information, a list of all covered municipal buildings identifying each covered municipal building that the Town Engineer determined to be exempt from the benchmarking requirement and the reason for the exemption, and the status of compliance with the requirements of this chapter.
The invalidity or unenforceability of any section subsection paragraph sentence clause provision, or phrase of the aforementioned sections as declared by the valid judgment of any court of competent jurisdiction to be unconstitutional shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause, provision, or phrase, which shall remain in full force and effect.