Bill Text: NJ A3649 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Prohibits issuance of DEP permits or approvals for certain shopping centers not having electric vehicle charging stations.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-03 - Reported out of Assembly Comm. with Amendments, 2nd Reading [A3649 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2010-A3649-Amended.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman JOSEPH CRYAN
District 20 (Union)
SYNOPSIS
Prohibits issuance of DEP permits or approvals for certain shopping centers not having electric vehicle charging stations.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Assembly Appropriations Committee on February 3, 2011, with amendments.
An Act concerning electric vehicle charging stations, supplementing Title 13 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. As used in 1[this act] P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill)1:
"Developer" means a person or entity that is a developer of a shopping center development in this State.
"Electric vehicle charging station" means an electric recharging point complete with electric vehicle supply equipment that is capable of providing level 2 charging for plug-in electric motor vehicles.
"Electric vehicle supply equipment" means the conductors, including the underground, grounded, and equipment grounding conductors, and the electric vehicle connectors, attachment plugs, and all other fittings, devices, power outlets, or apparatuses that are installed specifically for the purpose of delivering electricity from the premises wiring to a plug-in electric motor vehicle.
"Level 2 charging" means the provision of 208-240 volt alternate current electricity to an onboard charger of a plug-in electric motor vehicle in a single phase with a maximum current specified at 32 continuous amps with a branch circuit breaker rated at 40 amps and a maximum continuous input power specified at 7.68 kilowatts.
"Plug-in electric motor vehicle" means a vehicle propelled to a significant extent by an electric motor which draws electricity from a battery that is capable of being recharged from an external source of electricity.
"Shopping center development" means the plans or actions of a 1[develop] developer1 to construct and develop a privately owned and operated commercial development to be owned and managed as a unit consisting of a building or series of buildings on a common site, with an adjacent parking area of no less than 100 parking spaces to which the public is invited.
2. Notwithstanding any law,
rule, or regulation to the contrary, the Commissioner of Environmental
Protection shall not issue a permit or any other form of approval required
pursuant to State or federal law, or any rule or regulation adopted thereto,
for a shopping center development, unless the developer of the shopping center
development provides that no fewer than five percent of parking spaces of the
development are to be equipped with electric
vehicle charging stations upon completion of the shopping center development.
3. 1a.1 Within 90 days of the 1[effective]1 date of 1[this act] enactment of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill)1 , the 1[Department of] Commissioner of1 Environmental Protection 1[, in accordance with the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.),]1 shall promulgate rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of 1[this act] P.L. , c. (C. )1. 1Notwithstanding any provision of P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) to the contrary, the commissioner may adopt immediately upon filing with the Office of Administrative Law such regulations as the commissioner deems necessary which shall be effective for a period not to exceed 180 days following the date of enactment of P.L. , c. (C. ) and may thereafter be amended, adopted or readopted by the commissioner in accordance with the requirements of P.L.1968, c.410.
b. To provide data for, and facilitate the production of, the report required by subsection c., of this section, the commissioner shall compile compliance and enforcement data on the implementation of the requirements of sections 2 of P.L. , c. (C. )(pending before the Legislature as this bill) and determinations of whether a particular shopping center development was subject to and compliant with P.L. , c. (C. ), including the number of permits that were applied for and that were subject to the provisions of section 2 of P.L. , c. (C. ), and the number of permits approved and denied thereunder and such other information as the Chief Executive Officer of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority may request, and shall report the data for each State fiscal year to the Chief Executive Officer of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority on or before the first day of December of the following year for the first four fiscal years beginning after the date of enactment of P.L. , c. (C. )(pending before the Legislature as this bill).
c. The Chief Executive Officer of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority shall, on or before the April 1 following the end of the fourth State fiscal year beginning after the date of enactment of P.L. , c. (C. )(pending before the Legislature as this bill) prepare and transmit to the Governor and the Legislature pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1991, c.164 (C.52:14-19.1), a report evaluating the requirements of P.L. , c. (C. ) and determining whether the requirements of P.L. , c. (C. ) have been rendered unnecessary by market forces.1
4. This act shall take effect immediately 1, provided however, section 2 shall remain inoperative until the 90th day following the date of enactment1.
