Bill Text: NY A00346 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires certain state owned and operated parking garages, open parking lots and other parking facilities to install and maintain charging stations for plug-in electric vehicles.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to governmental operations [A00346 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A00346-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 346--A 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 6, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring certain state owned and operated parking garages, open parking lots and other parking facilities to install and maintain charging stations for plug- in electric vehicles The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 201-b 2 to read as follows: 3 § 201-b. Electric vehicle charging stations. 1. Any parking garage, 4 open parking lot and other parking facility owned and/or operated by the 5 state of New York, that offers between fifty and two hundred parking 6 spaces for the purposes of public use, state employee use and pay-per- 7 usage, is hereby required to install electric charging stations in at 8 least ten percent of the total number of parking spaces offered by such 9 facility. 10 2. Any parking garage, open parking lot and other parking facility 11 owned and/or operated by the state of New York, that offers more than 12 two hundred parking spaces for the purposes of public use, state employ- 13 ee use and pay-per-usage, is hereby required to install electric charg- 14 ing stations in at least twenty percent of the total number of parking 15 spaces offered by such facility. 16 3. Pursuant to subdivisions one and two of this section, open parking 17 lots and other open parking facilities shall be capable of supporting 18 electric vehicle charging stations through an electrical raceway, no 19 smaller than one inch, capable of providing a minimum supply of 11.5 kVA 20 to an electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) from an electric supply 21 panel. The electric supply panel serving such parking spaces must have EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01215-02-1A. 346--A 2 1 at least 3.1 kW of available capacity for each charging stall connected 2 to it with the raceway. Such raceway and all components and work appur- 3 tenant thereto shall be in accordance with state, city and municipal 4 electrical code. 5 4. Pursuant to subdivisions one and two of this section, parking 6 garages shall be capable of supporting electric vehicle charging 7 stations through an electrical raceway to the electric supply panel 8 serving the garage that shall be capable of providing a minimum of 3.1 9 kW of electrical capacity to each charging stall connected to it with 10 the raceway. Such raceway and all components and work appurtenant there- 11 to shall be in accordance with state, city and municipal electrical 12 codes. 13 5. The office of general services shall be responsible for the instal- 14 lation of any electric vehicle supply equipment. If such installation 15 shall require the state to make upgrades to a facility's electrical 16 supply equipment to safely and sufficiently power and operate the charg- 17 ing stations, the office of general services, if able, shall increase 18 the electrical capacity of the existing system by installing new compo- 19 nents as necessary. If the office of general services is unable to make 20 such technical upgrades to a facility, the state may contract with a 21 licensed electrician or similar service provider to upgrade the elec- 22 trical capacity of said facility. Such contracted work shall comply with 23 the provisions of article eight of the labor law, including the payment 24 of a wage of not less than the prevailing wage in the locality where 25 such electric vehicle charging station is located. 26 6. The office of general services shall be responsible for the mainte- 27 nance, general upkeep and repair of any electric vehicle supply equip- 28 ment. If the office of general services is unable to complete such main- 29 tenance or repairs, the state may contract with a licensed electrician 30 or similar repair service to complete the necessary work on said equip- 31 ment. 32 7. To ensure that electric vehicles that require the use of charging 33 stations are the only vehicles allowed to utilize parking spaces 34 equipped with electric vehicle supply equipment, the office of general 35 services, or other appropriate agency, is required to install signage to 36 advise drivers of such parking restrictions. 37 8. State, city and/or municipal policing authorities and/or parking 38 enforcement are hereby authorized to issue citations or take any other 39 appropriate action in the event of a violation of subdivision seven of 40 this section in accordance with existing vehicle and traffic law and 41 parking restrictions imposed by any parking facility in which the elec- 42 tric vehicle supply equipment is located. 43 9. The state of New York shall assume all costs of installing, operat- 44 ing and maintaining any electric vehicle supply equipment, including the 45 cost of utilities associated with the charging of vehicles. The state of 46 New York is also prohibited from charging an individual, who is author- 47 ized by this section, in any way, for the use of such electric vehicle 48 supply equipment offered by a state owned and/or operated parking facil- 49 ity. 50 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.