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Fredonia holds public hearing on local law to opt out of state solar/wind tax exemption
Summary
At a Jan. 21 public hearing, a village official read Local Law No. 1 of 2025, which would opt the Village of Fredonia out of the Real Property Tax Law §487 exemption for certain solar, wind and farm-waste energy systems; no public commenters were present during the initial hearing.
The Village of Fredonia Board of Trustees held a public hearing at Fredonia Village Hall on Jan. 21, 2025, to consider Local Law No. 1 of 2025, a proposed law to opt the village out of the state tax exemption for certain solar, wind and farm-waste energy systems under New York’s Real Property Tax Law §487. A village official read the full text of the proposed local law at the hearing.
The proposed local law would make the RPTL §487 exemption "not applicable, nor available" within the Village of Fredonia, Chautauqua County, New York, according to the text read into the record. The draft states the law would be "effective immediately upon filing with the Secretary of State."
The opt-out provision cited in the draft is the one in RPTL §487 that permits municipalities to decline the state exemption for designated renewable-energy systems. The village official read the purpose clause and the operative language specifying the village’s intent to exercise that opt-out authority.
During the initial reading the board noted there were no members of the public in attendance for the hearing; the official record states the board intended to wait and resume the hearing at 5:30 p.m. The transcript includes no recorded vote or formal adoption of the local law during the portion of the meeting in the provided record.
The text read at the hearing does not itself change tax treatment until after any required local adoption procedures are completed and the local law is filed with the New York State Department of State. The transcript did not record further action, a vote, or public comment on the measure in the available segment.
For now, the record shows the Village of Fredonia held a public hearing and read the proposed Local Law No. 1 of 2025, which would opt the village out of RPTL §487; no decision or vote is recorded in the provided transcript.
