Bill Text: NY A02595 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires gas stations to maintain backup generators capable of operating the gas pumps in the case of loss of electricity.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to economic development [A02595 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A02595-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2595
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 16, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Economic Development
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring gas
stations to maintain a backup generator to operate gas pumps in the
event of loss of electricity
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
2 399-eee to read as follows:
3 S 399-EEE. PLACEMENT OF BACKUP GENERATORS AT GAS STATIONS. 1. EVERY
4 RETAIL GAS STATION LOCATED WITHIN THIS STATE SHALL BE REQUIRED TO MAIN-
5 TAIN A BACKUP GENERATOR CAPABLE OF OPERATING ALL GAS PUMPS SITUATED ON
6 THE PROPERTY FOR A PERIOD OF NO LESS THAN FORTY-EIGHT HOURS IN THE EVENT
7 THAT THE RETAIL GAS STATION LOSES ITS MAIN SOURCE OF ELECTRICITY.
8 2. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "RETAIL GAS STATION" SHALL MEAN A
9 FILLING STATION WHERE GASOLINE IS STORED PRIMARILY FOR SALE BY DELIVERY
10 DIRECTLY INTO THE ORDINARY FUEL TANK CONNECTED WITH THE ENGINE OF A
11 MOTOR VEHICLE OR VESSEL TO BE CONSUMED IN THE OPERATION OF SUCH MOTOR
12 VEHICLE OR VESSEL.
13 S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
14 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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