NY State Senate Bill 2021-S1763

Senate Bill S1763

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to certificates of registration for entities that manufacture or assemble zero emissions vehicles and have no franchised motor vehicle dealers in New York

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2021-S1763 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A4614
Current Committee:: Senate Transportation
Law Section:: Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §415, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:: S4977, A3779

2021-S1763 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to certificates of registration for entities that manufacture or assemble zero emissions vehicles and have no franchised motor vehicle dealers in New York.

2021-S1763 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S1763             REVISED 02/10/2021

SPONSOR: KAMINSKY
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to certificates
of registration for entities that manufacture or assemble zero emissions
vehicles and have no franchised motor vehicle dealers in New York

 
PURPOSE:

To increase the certificates of registration for entities that manufac-
ture or assemble zero emissions vehicles to open sales locations in New
York State

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1: Removes the limit on the number of certificate of registra-
tions the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles may issue and renew to manufac-
turers that manufacture or assemble exclusively zero emission vehicles
(ZEVs) and adds the requirement that an eligible manufacturer must not

have a franchised motor vehicle dealer of the same line-make in the
State.

Section 2: This act shall take effect immediately.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Currently, New York law only allows five electric vehicle (EV) direct
sales locations throughout the State. Due to overwhelming demand, these
stores are all located downstate, leaving upstate residents without
convenient and accessible locations to purchase zero-emission vehicles
(ZEVs), and preventing any additional electric vehicle companies from
opening stores in the State.

The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) requires the
State to achieve a carbon-free electricity system by 2040, and codifies
the goals of a 40 percent reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
from 1990 levels by 2030, and 85 percent by 2050.  Additionally, the
Governor has set the goal of having 850,000 EVs on the road by 2025, and
two million EVs by 2030 through the 2014 Multi-State ZEV Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU). As of September 2020, New York had only achieved 3
percent of the 2025 goal. New York cannot meet these goals and targets
without increased adoption of electric vehicles. Allowing more direct
sales locations from multiple EV manufacturers will increase near-term
economic investment and employment opportunities in retail and service
locations and make it easier for New Yorkers across the state to
purchase electric vehicles.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately.

2021-S1763 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1763
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 15, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. KAMINSKY -- 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 certificates
   of registration for entities that manufacture or assemble  zero  emis-
   sions  vehicles  and  have  no franchised motor vehicle dealers in New
   York
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subparagraph  (iii)  of  paragraph  f of subdivision 7 of
 section 415 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 26  of
 the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
   (iii)  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision of this paragraph or any
 provision of paragraph (bb) of subdivision two of section  four  hundred
 sixty-three  of this title, the commissioner may ISSUE AND renew [any] A
 certificate of registration [that was issued] to a franchisor,  manufac-
 turer,  distributor, distributor branch or factory branch, as such terms
 are defined in section four hundred sixty-two of this title, or  to  any
 subsidiary,  affiliate  or  controlled  entity  thereof[, prior to March
 twenty-sixth, two thousand fourteen]; provided, however, that such fran-
 chisor, manufacturer, distributor, distributor branch or factory branch,
 or any subsidiary, affiliate or controlled  entity  thereof,  (1)  is  a
 manufacturer  that  manufactures or assembles exclusively zero emissions
 vehicles, or is a subsidiary, affiliate, or controlled entity of such  a
 manufacturer; AND (2) HAS NO FRANCHISED MOTOR VEHICLE DEALER OF THE SAME
 LINE-MAKE  IN  THIS STATE; and provided further, IN THE CASE OF RENEWAL,
 that a controlling interest in such original  franchisor,  manufacturer,
 distributor,  distributor  branch  or  factory branch or any subsidiary,
 affiliate or controlled entity was not transferred, sold or conveyed  to
 another  person  or  entity,  other  than  to a subsidiary, affiliate or
 controlled  entity  of  such  franchisor,   manufacturer,   distributor,
 distributor  branch  or  factory branch. For purposes of this paragraph,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD07880-01-1

 S. 1763                             2
 
 zero emission vehicles shall have the same meaning  as  under  part  two
 hundred  eighteen  of  title six of the New York code of rules and regu-
 lations.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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