Bill Text: NY A03179 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires electric vehicle charging stations and electric vehicle capable parking spaces at certain residential and commercial buildings.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-31 - ordered to third reading rules cal.444 [A03179 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A03179-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3179--B

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 22, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  FAHY, GOTTFRIED, JACKSON, McDONALD, DICKENS,
          THIELE, SEAWRIGHT, BURDICK, SIMON, STECK,  WOERNER,  BROWN,  CLARK  --
          read  once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted  to  said  committee  --  recommitted  to the Committee on
          Governmental Operations in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in  relation  to  requiring  electric
          vehicle charging stations and electric vehicle capable parking spaces

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

     1    Section 1. Section 378 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 17-a to read as follows:
     3    17-a. a. For the purposes of this subdivision:
     4    (i) "Substantial rehabilitation" means required repairs, replacements,
     5  and improvements involving the replacement of two or more major building
     6  components, or costing in excess of either fifteen percent (exclusive of
     7  any soft costs) of the property's fair market value after completion  of
     8  rehabilitation  or,  for a multi-unit residential building, six thousand
     9  five hundred dollars per dwelling unit adjusted  by  the  United  States
    10  department of housing and urban development high cost percentage.
    11    (ii)  "Major  building component" means roof structures, wall or floor
    12  structures, foundations, and plumbing, central heating  and  air  condi-
    13  tioning, or electrical systems, that are significant to the building and
    14  its  use,  which  are  normally  expected to last the useful life of the
    15  building and not minor or cosmetic.
    16    b. Standards to require new construction that includes dedicated  off-
    17  street  parking  and  buildings  undergoing  substantial  rehabilitation
    18  involving a garage, driveway, parking lot or other  off-street  parking,
    19  to have:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07051-05-1
        A. 3179--B                          2

     1    (i)  electric vehicle charging stations as defined in paragraph (b) of
     2  subdivision one of section three  hundred  thirty-nine-ll  of  the  real
     3  property law; and
     4    (ii) electric vehicle capable parking spaces, which have the appropri-
     5  ate wiring, electric panels, and the appropriate space to install appro-
     6  priate electric service for an electric vehicle charging station.
     7    c.  The number of spaces required by paragraph b of this section shall
     8  be as follows:
     9    (i) a one, two or three-family home equipped with a  garage,  driveway
    10  or  parking  lot,  or  other off-street parking, shall have at least one
    11  electric vehicle capable parking space;
    12    (ii) a home for more than three families  with  between  two  and  ten
    13  parking  spaces  shall  have  at least seventy-five percent of available
    14  parking spaces be electric vehicle capable parking spaces,  which  shall
    15  include  at least twenty percent of available parking spaces as electric
    16  vehicle charging stations. If there is a decimal in the  calculation  of
    17  the  percentage  of parking spaces, such decimal shall be rounded to the
    18  next largest whole number;
    19    (iii) a multi-unit residential building with at least  eleven  parking
    20  spaces  shall  have  one  hundred percent of available parking spaces be
    21  electric vehicle capable parking spaces, which shall  include  at  least
    22  forty  percent  of available parking spaces as electric vehicle charging
    23  stations. If there is a decimal in the calculation of the percentage  of
    24  parking  spaces, such decimal shall be rounded to the next largest whole
    25  number;
    26    (iv) a commercial building with between two  and  ten  parking  spaces
    27  shall  have  one hundred percent of available parking spaces be electric
    28  vehicle capable parking spaces, which  shall  include  at  least  twenty
    29  percent  of  available  parking  spaces  as  electric  vehicle  charging
    30  stations with at least a 208-240 volt, 40 amp circuit;
    31    (v) a commercial building with at least eleven  parking  spaces  shall
    32  have one hundred percent of available parking spaces be electric vehicle
    33  capable  parking  spaces,  which shall include at least forty percent of
    34  available parking spaces as electric vehicle charging stations  with  at
    35  least a 208-240 volt, 40 amp circuit; and
    36    (vi) a commercial building subject to the requirements of subparagraph
    37  (iv)  or  (v)  of  this  paragraph, the installation of one 400-900 volt
    38  direct current fast charging station shall be considered  equivalent  to
    39  five required electric vehicle charging stations of lower voltage.
    40    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    41  have become a law.