Bill Text: CA AB2453 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Weights and measures: electric vehicle supply equipment.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-29 - Referred to Com. on B., P. & E. D. [AB2453 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2453-Amended.html
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Amended
IN
Assembly
April 18, 2024 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Villapudua |
February 13, 2024 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
This bill would authorize a measuring instrument used to measure the amount of electricity
transferred from an electric vehicle charger to be used in connection with the sale of electricity as a motor vehicle fuel without first being tested if it is a type approved by the department, is calibrated and sealed by the manufacturer, and is unalterable.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Notwithstanding Section 12502, a measuring instrument used to measure the amount of electricity transferred from an electric vehicle charger may be used in connection with the sale of electricity as a motor vehicle fuel without first being tested if it meets both of the following criteria:
(a)The measuring instrument is a type approved by the department pursuant to Section 12500.5.
(b)The measuring instrument is calibrated and sealed by the manufacturer and is unalterable.
SEC. 2.SECTION 1.
Section 12509.5 is added to the Business and Professions Code, to read:12509.5.
(a)(2)In addition to the definitions described in paragraph (1), the following definitions apply to this section:
(A)
(B)“Nonpublicly available EVSE” means any EVSE that is not a publicly available EVSE.
(C)(i)“Publicly available EVSE” means an EVSE and associated parking space or spaces designated by a property owner or lessee to be available to, and accessible by, the public for any period of time. In addition, both of the following are publicly available EVSE:
(I)An EVSE designated by a lessee or a property owner to be available only to customers or visitors of the business.
(II)An EVSE and associated parking spaces located in parking garages or gated facilities if any member of the public can obtain vehicular access to the facility for free or through payment of a fee.
(ii)“Publicly available EVSE” does not include any of the following:
(I)A workplace EVSE and associated parking spaces if it is clearly marked and operated as available exclusively to employees or contracted drivers.
(II)An EVSE and associated parking spaces reserved exclusively to residents, tenants, visitors, or employees of a private residence or common interest development, or a residential building adjacent to a private residence.
(III)An EVSE provided by a manufacturer of electric vehicles for exclusive use by the vehicles it manufactures.
(D)
(b)Notwithstanding Section 12532, a nonpublicly available EVSE shall not be required to be placed in service by a service agency or sealer before use, but shall be required to be a type approved by the department pursuant to Section 12500.5.
(c)Notwithstanding Section 12532, an EVSE shall not be required to be placed in service by a service agency or sealer before the device is used after receiving routine repair.
(d)Notwithstanding Section 12532, an EVSE that is calibrated and sealed with unalterable measuring instruments at the point of manufacture shall not be required to be placed in service by a service agency or a sealer, but shall be required to be a type approved for metrological tolerances by the department pursuant to Section 12500.5.
