S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3779
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 8, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. FAHY, ROZIC, SEAWRIGHT, PAULIN, GONZALEZ-ROJAS,
KELLES, COLTON, SIMON, STERN, BURKE, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, RAMOS,
JEAN-PIERRE, THIELE, DARLING, WALKER, L. ROSENTHAL, GALLAGHER, JONES,
ANDERSON, DINOWITZ, BURDICK, SILLITTI, SANTABARBARA, CARROLL, DAVILA,
LAVINE, JACOBSON, D. ROSENTHAL, HEVESI, STIRPE, BYRNES, CLARK, GANDOL-
FO, DURSO, SIMPSON, BURGOS, DeSTEFANO, JACKSON, DICKENS, GIBBS, LUCAS,
CUNNINGHAM, K. BROWN, WOERNER, RAJKUMAR, PHEFFER AMATO -- read once
and referred 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,
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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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,
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.