Bill Text: NY A04871 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
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Bill Title: Requires certain state owned and operated parking facilities to install and maintain charging stations for plug-in electric vehicles.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 76-5)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-10 - substituted by s1535a [A04871 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A04871-Amended.html
Bill Title: Requires certain state owned and operated parking facilities to install and maintain charging stations for plug-in electric vehicles.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 76-5)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-10 - substituted by s1535a [A04871 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A04871-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4871--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 24, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. KELLES, SIMON, K. BROWN, JACOBSON, STECK, SEAWRIGHT -- 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 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. For the purposes of 4 this section, the term "parking facility" shall mean a parking garage, 5 parking structure, or open parking lot that is paved and striped to 6 designate individual parking spaces for vehicles and which has fifty 7 parking spaces or more. 8 2. Any parking facility owned and operated by the state of New York, 9 that offers between fifty and two hundred parking spaces for the 10 purposes of public use, state employee use and pay-per-usage, is hereby 11 required to install electric charging stations in at least ten percent 12 of the total number of parking spaces offered by such facility. 13 3. Any parking facility owned and operated by the state of New York, 14 that offers more than two hundred parking spaces for the purposes of 15 public use, state employee use and pay-per-usage, is hereby required to 16 install electric charging stations in at least twenty percent of the 17 total number of parking spaces offered by such facility. 18 4. Each electric vehicle charging station required pursuant to this 19 section shall support electric vehicle charging with a minimum of forty 20 amperes and two hundred eight volts of electrical capacity. Such elec- 21 tric vehicle charging stations and all other components and work appur- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05393-02-3A. 4871--A 2 1 tenant thereto shall be in accordance with all applicable state, county, 2 city, town, or village electrical codes. 3 5. The office of general services shall be responsible for the instal- 4 lation of any electric vehicle supply equipment and charging stations. 5 If such installation shall require the state to make upgrades to any 6 electrical supply equipment to safely and sufficiently power and operate 7 such charging stations, the office of general services shall increase 8 the electrical capacity of the existing system by installing new compo- 9 nents as necessary. If the office of general services is unable to make 10 such technical upgrades to a facility, the office may contract with a 11 licensed electrician or similar service provider to upgrade the elec- 12 trical capacity of said facility. Such contracted work shall comply with 13 the provisions of article eight of the labor law, including the payment 14 of a wage of not less than the prevailing wage in the locality where 15 such parking facility is located. 16 6. The office of general services shall be responsible for the mainte- 17 nance, general upkeep and repair of any electric vehicle supply equip- 18 ment and charging stations. If the office of general services is unable 19 to complete such maintenance or repairs, the office may contract with a 20 licensed electrician or similar repair service to complete the necessary 21 work on said equipment. 22 § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2024.