Bill Text: NY S06600 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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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: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-4)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-01 - PRINT NUMBER 6600A [S06600 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S06600-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         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  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
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     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.