Bill Text: NY S06692 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Requires electric vehicle charging stations to be installed at gasoline stations when new gas dispensing motor fuel pumps are being installed at such gasoline station; prohibits building permits from being issued when there is not at least one electric vehicle charging station being installed at such gas station.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-06-01 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [S06692 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06692-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6692--B

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 12, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Consumer  Protection  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee  --  recommitted  to  the  Committee  on
          Consumer  Protection  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 general business law, in relation to requiring elec-
          tric  vehicle  charging  stations  to be installed at certain gasoline
          stations

          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
     2  section 396-xx to read as follows:
     3    § 396-xx. Gasoline station; dealer; electric vehicle charging  station
     4  required. 1. Definitions. As used in this section:
     5    (a) "gasoline station"  shall mean a premises or facility greater than
     6  fifteen  hundred  square feet with operational gas dispensing motor fuel
     7  pumps that dispense motor fuel available for general public retail sale.
     8    (b) "dealer" shall mean any person owning or operating a  premises  or
     9  facility  with  one  or more operational gas dispensing motor fuel pumps
    10  that dispense motor fuel available for general public retail sale.
    11    (c) "electric vehicle charging station" shall mean a  level  two  dual
    12  charging  station  that  delivers  electricity  from a source outside an
    13  electric vehicle and can charge two electric vehicles simultaneously  on
    14  one  circuit.   An electric vehicle charging station may include several
    15  charge points simultaneously connecting several electric vehicles to the
    16  station and any related equipment needed to facilitate charging  plug-in
    17  electric  vehicles.    Each electric vehicle charging station shall have
    18  the ability to deliver a charge load of no less than 6kW per station and
    19  each electric vehicle charging station shall have non-proprietary  char-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11298-08-2

        S. 6692--B                          2

     1  gers capable of charging electric vehicles from at least three different
     2  incorporated auto manufacturers.
     3    2.  Any  dealer  installing  new operational gas dispensing motor fuel
     4  pumps for the retail sale of motor fuels for use in motor vehicles shall
     5  also install at least one electric  vehicle  charging  station  at  such
     6  gasoline station.
     7    3. No building permit shall be issued to a dealer if the documentation
     8  submitted  for such building permit does not reflect the installation of
     9  at least one electric vehicle charging station at such gasoline station.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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