Bill Text: NY S06600 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
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: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-4)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-01 - PRINT NUMBER 6600A [S06600 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S06600-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6600--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE June 6, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sens. AMEDORE, ALCANTARA, AVELLA, HOYLMAN, MARCELLINO, PARKER, SERRANO, VALESKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee 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 March11twenty-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 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11779-03-8S. 6600--A 2 1 or controlled entity was not transferred, sold or conveyed to another 2 person or entity, other than to a subsidiary, affiliate or controlled 3 entity of such franchisor, manufacturer, distributor, distributor branch 4 or factory branch. For purposes of this paragraph, zero emission vehi- 5 cles shall have the same meaning as under part two hundred eighteen of 6 title six of the New York code of rules and regulations. 7 (2) Notwithstanding any section of law, rule, or regulation to the 8 contrary, any franchisor, manufacturer, distributor, distributor branch 9 or factory branch, or any subsidiary, affiliate or controlled entity 10 thereof that obtains a new certificate of registration pursuant to this 11 subparagraph on and after the effective date of this clause shall offer 12 repair service to repair any zero emissions vehicles sold or leased by 13 said franchisor, manufacturer, distributor, distributor branch or any 14 factory branch, or any subsidiary, affiliate or controlled entity there- 15 of. 16 (3) Notwithstanding any section of law, rule, or regulation to the 17 contrary, any franchisor, manufacturer, distributor, distributor branch 18 or factory branch, or any subsidiary, affiliate or controlled entity 19 thereof that obtains a new certificate of registration pursuant to this 20 subparagraph on and after the effective date of this clause shall main- 21 tain at least one certificate of registration in each of the following 22 regions: 23 (A) Region one shall consist of Columbia, Delaware, Dutchess, Greene, 24 Orange, Sullivan, Putnam, and Ulster counties; 25 (B) Region two shall consist of Albany, Clinton, Essex, Franklin, 26 Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Scho- 27 harie, Warren, and Washington counties; 28 (C) Region three shall consist of Broome, Cayuga, Chenango, Cortland, 29 Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego, Otsego, 30 St. Lawrence, Tioga, and Tompkins counties; 31 (D) Region four shall consist of Chemung, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, 32 Seneca, Schuyler, Steuben, Wayne and Yates counties; and 33 (D) Region five shall consist of Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, 34 Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans and Wyoming counties. 35 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.