Bill Text: NY A08248 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to certificates of registration for entities that manufacture or assemble zero emissions vehicles; authorizes 20 certificates with at least five to be located in certain upstate regions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 47-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-29 - print number 8248a [A08248 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8248
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      June 2, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. MORELLE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Transportation
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to certificates
          of registration for entities that manufacture or assemble  zero  emis-
          sions vehicles
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subparagraph (iii) of  paragraph  f  of  subdivision  7  of
     2  section  415 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 26 of
     3  the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (iii) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this paragraph or any
     5  provision of paragraph (bb) of subdivision two of section  four  hundred
     6  sixty-three  of this title, the commissioner may issue and renew [any] a
     7  certificate of registration [that was issued] to a franchisor,  manufac-
     8  turer,  distributor, distributor branch or factory branch, as such terms
     9  are defined in section four hundred sixty-two of this title, or  to  any
    10  subsidiary,  affiliate  or  controlled  entity  thereof[, prior to March
    11  twenty-sixth, two thousand fourteen]; provided, however, that such fran-
    12  chisor, manufacturer, distributor, distributor branch or factory branch,
    13  or any subsidiary, affiliate or controlled entity thereof,  (A)  held  a
    14  certificate of registration as of March twenty-sixth, two thousand four-
    15  teen,  (B)  is a manufacturer that manufactures or assembles exclusively
    16  zero emissions vehicles, or is a subsidiary,  affiliate,  or  controlled
    17  entity of such a manufacturer, and (C) holds no more than twenty certif-
    18  icates  of  registration  at  any  one time; and provided further that a
    19  controlling interest in such original franchisor, manufacturer, distrib-
    20  utor, distributor branch or factory branch or any subsidiary,  affiliate
    21  or  controlled  entity  was not transferred, sold or conveyed to another
    22  person or entity, other than to a subsidiary,  affiliate  or  controlled
    23  entity of such franchisor, manufacturer, distributor, distributor branch
    24  or  factory  branch. For purposes of this paragraph, zero emission vehi-
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  cles shall have the same meaning as under part two hundred  eighteen  of
     2  title six of the New York code of rules and regulations.
     3    (2)  Notwithstanding  any  section  of law, rule, or regulation to the
     4  contrary, any franchisor, manufacturer, distributor, distributor  branch
     5  or  factory  branch,  or  any subsidiary, affiliate or controlled entity
     6  thereof that obtains a new certificate of registration pursuant to  this
     7  subparagraph  on and after the effective date of this clause shall offer
     8  repair service to repair any zero emissions vehicles sold or  leased  by
     9  said  franchisor,  manufacturer,  distributor, distributor branch or any
    10  factory branch, or any subsidiary, affiliate or controlled entity there-
    11  of.
    12    (3) Notwithstanding any section of law, rule,  or  regulation  to  the
    13  contrary,  any franchisor, manufacturer, distributor, distributor branch
    14  or factory branch, or any subsidiary,  affiliate  or  controlled  entity
    15  thereof  that obtains a new certificate of registration pursuant to this
    16  subparagraph on and after the effective date of this clause shall  main-
    17  tain  at  least one certificate of registration in each of the following
    18  regions:
    19    (A) Region one shall  consist of Columbia, Delaware, Dutchess, Greene,
    20  Orange, Sullivan and Ulster counties;
    21    (B) Region two shall consist of Albany,  Fulton,  Montgomery,  Rensse-
    22  laer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie and Washington Counties;
    23    (C)  Region three shall consist of Cayuga, Chenango, Cortland, Herkim-
    24  er, Lewis, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego and Otsego counties;
    25    (D) Region four shall consist of Chemung, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario,
    26  Schuyler, Steuben, Wayne and Yates counties; and
    27    (D) Region five shall consist of  Allegany,  Cattaraugus,  Chautauqua,
    28  Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans and Wyoming counties.
    29    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.