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Assembly Bill A1796

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires that a certain amount of handicapped parking spaces at certain shopping centers or facilities are equipped with electric vehicle charging stations

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2025-A1796 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1203-c, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A4044

2025-A1796 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires in every shopping center or facility that has over one hundred off street parking spaces that at least one percent of the spaces, or five such spaces, whichever is less, shall be a handicapped parking space equipped with an electric vehicle charging station.

2025-A1796 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1796
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CUNNINGHAM  -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  requiring
   that  a  certain amount of handicapped parking spaces at certain shop-
   ping centers or facilities are equipped with electric vehicle charging
   stations

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 1203-c of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
 adding a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
   2-A.  ANY  PERSON,  FIRM  OR  CORPORATION  OWNING A SHOPPING CENTER OR
 FACILITY COVERED BY SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION WHICH HAS MORE  THAN
 ONE  HUNDRED OFF STREET PARKING SPACES SHALL DESIGNATED A MINIMUM OF ONE
 PERCENT OF SUCH PARKING SPACES OR FIVE SUCH SPACES, WHICHEVER  IS  LESS,
 AS  A HANDICAPPED SPACE THAT IS EQUIPPED WITH AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARG-
 ING STATION THAT IS AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC USE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02240-01-5

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