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Assembly Bill A262

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires electric vehicles to have an automatic cutoff switch

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2025-A262 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Add §384, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A7497

2025-A262 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires electric vehicles, including motor vehicles, bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters, to have an automatic cutoff switch; defines automatic cutoff switch.

2025-A262 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    262
 
                        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 Transportation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
   electric vehicles to have an automatic cutoff switch

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  vehicle  and  traffic law is amended by adding a new
 section 384 to read as follows:
   § 384. ELECTRIC VEHICLES; AUTOMATIC CUTOFF  SWITCH.  1.  ALL  ELECTRIC
 VEHICLES,  INCLUDING  MOTOR VEHICLES, BICYCLES WITH ELECTRIC ASSIST, AND
 ELECTRIC SCOOTERS, SHALL BE EQUIPPED WITH AN AUTOMATIC CUTOFF SWITCH.
   2. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "AUTOMATIC CUTOFF SWITCH" MEANS A
 HAND-OPERATED SWITCH WHICH IS CAPABLE OF CUTTING OFF ALL POWER AND ELEC-
 TRICITY TO THE VEHICLE WITHOUT THE NEED OF A KEY OR UNLOCKING DEVICE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01411-01-5

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