Bill Text: NY S06916 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of motor vehicles to adopt rules and regulations requiring the issuance and placement of special stickers identifying alternative fuel vehicles; requires such stickers to be easily identifiable to first responders as alternative fuel vehicles and to differentiate between personal and commercial vehicles; defines alternative fuel.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-06 - RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN [S06916 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06916-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6916

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 15, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  requiring
          the issuance of stickers for alternative fuel vehicles

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 401-c to read as follows:
     3    §  401-c.  Alternative fuel stickers.  1. The commissioner shall adopt
     4  rules and regulations requiring the issuance of special stickers identi-
     5  fying alternative fuel  vehicles.  Such  rules  and  regulations  shall:
     6  require that such stickers shall be affixed to the inside of a vehicle's
     7  windshield  and that such stickers shall be easily identifiable to first
     8  responders  as  an  alternative  fuel  vehicle;  differentiate   between
     9  personal  and  commercial  vehicles; require that applications for motor
    10  vehicle registration or re-registration include  information  pertaining
    11  to whether a vehicle is an alternative fuel vehicle; and provide that an
    12  owner  of  an  alternative fuel vehicle may request such special sticker
    13  upon submission of specific information.
    14    2. Starting January first next succeeding the effective date  of  this
    15  section,  the department shall issue to the owner of an alternative fuel
    16  vehicle a sticker identifying such vehicle as being an alternative  fuel
    17  vehicle  at the time of registration or re-registration of such vehicle.
    18  Such sticker may also be requested by the owner of an  alternative  fuel
    19  vehicle  at  other  times  upon  the  submission  of such information as
    20  required by the commissioner.
    21    3. Stickers shall be produced in a size and form suitable for applica-
    22  tion to the inside of a vehicle's windshield and shall be applied by the
    23  owner of the vehicle to the windshield of the vehicle  adjacent  to  the
    24  vehicle's  registration  sticker  in  a  manner so as to not obstruct or
    25  interfere with the view of the vehicle operator through the  windshield,

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  or to prevent the operator from having a clear and full view of the road
     2  and conditions.
     3    4.  For the purposes of this section, "alternative fuel" means:  biod-
     4  iesel (B100); natural gas and liquid fuels  domestically  produced  from
     5  natural  gas;  propane (liquefied petroleum gas); electricity; hydrogen;
     6  blends of eighty-five percent or more of  methanol,  denatured  ethanol,
     7  and  other  alcohols  with  gasoline or other fuels; methanol, denatured
     8  ethanol, and other alcohols; coal-derived, domestically produced  liquid
     9  fuels; fuels (other than alcohol) derived from biological materials; and
    10  p-series fuels.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.