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Assembly Bill A232

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires standards for the new construction of electric vehicle charging stations to require such stations to have an external cutoff switch

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2025-A232 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §378, Exec L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A7510

2025-A232 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires standards for the new construction of electric vehicle charging stations to require such stations to have an external automatic cutoff switch.

2025-A232 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    232
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. EACHUS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Governmental Operations
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the executive law, in relation to requiring standards
   for the new construction of  electric  vehicle  charging  stations  to
   require such stations to have an external cutoff switch
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 20 of section 378  of  the  executive  law,  as
 renumbered by section 3 of part RR of chapter 56 of the laws of 2023, is
 renumbered  subdivision  21 and a new subdivision 20 is added to read as
 follows:
   20. STANDARDS REQUIRING  NEW  CONSTRUCTION  OF  PERMANENTLY  INSTALLED
 RESIDENTIAL  ELECTRIC  VEHICLE  CHARGING STATIONS TO INCLUDE AN EXTERNAL
 CUTOFF SWITCH. SUCH REQUIREMENTS SHALL ALSO APPLY TO THE SALE OR  TRANS-
 FER  OF  A RESIDENCE CONTAINING A PERMANENTLY INSTALLED ELECTRIC VEHICLE
 CHARGING STATION. A CUTOFF SWITCH SHALL BE A HAND-OPERATED SWITCH  WHICH
 IS CAPABLE OF CUTTING OFF ALL POWER AND ELECTRICITY TO THE VEHICLE WITH-
 OUT  THE  NEED  OF  A  KEY  OR  TO  UNLOCK THE DEVICE.   FOR PERMANENTLY
 INSTALLED RESIDENTIAL ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING  STATIONS,  SUCH  CUTOFF
 SWITCH SHALL BE PLACED OUTSIDE OF THE HOUSE OR GARAGE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01414-01-5

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