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Timestamp: 2019-10-19 05:30:38
Document Index: 427081120

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 240', '§ 240', '§ 240', '§ 240', '§ 240', '§ 240']

Town of Busti, NY Energy Benchmarking
§ 240-3 Applicability.
§ 240-4 Benchmarking required for covered municipal buildings.
§ 240-5 Disclosure and publication of benchmarking information.
§ 240-6 Maintenance of records.
§ 240-7 Enforcement and administration.
Chapter 240 Energy Benchmarking
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Busti 12-5-2016 by L.L. No. 4-2016. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Energize NY Benefit Financing Program — See Ch. 242.
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 Busti.
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 Board 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 Busti that is 1,000 square feet or larger in size.
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 Local Law is applicable to all covered municipal buildings as defined in § 240-2 of this chapter.
The Town Clerk may exempt a particular covered municipal building from the benchmarking requirement if the Town Clerk determines that it has characteristics that make benchmarking impractical.
No later than December 31, 2016, and no later than May 1 every year thereafter, the Town Clerk or his or her designee 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 Clerk or his or her designee shall begin inputting data in the following year.
The Town Clerk shall make available to the public on the internet benchmarking information for the previous calendar year:
No later than December 31, 2016 and by September 1 of each year thereafter for covered municipal buildings; and
The Town Clerk shall make available to the public on the internet and update at least annually, the following benchmarking information:
The status of compliance with the requirements of this chapter; and
A comparison of the annual summary statistics (as required by the preceding section) across calendar years for all years since annual reporting under this chapter has been required for said building.
The Town Clerk shall maintain records as necessary for carrying out the purposes of this chapter, including but not limited to energy bills and other documents received from tenants and/or utilities. Such records shall be preserved by the Department for a period of three years.
The Town Clerk or his or her designee shall be the Chief Enforcement Officer of this chapter.
The Chief Enforcement Officer of this chapter may promulgate regulations necessary for the administration of the requirements of this chapter.
Within thirty days after each anniversary date of the effective date of this chapter, the Chief Enforcement Officer shall submit a report to the Town Board 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 Clerk 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.