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Assembly Bill A3792

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires gas stations to maintain backup generators for gas pumps

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2025-A3792 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §399-eeee, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A6376

2025-A3792 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires gas stations to maintain backup generators capable of operating the gas pumps in the event of loss of electricity.

2025-A3792 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3792
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 30, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Economic Development
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring gas
   stations to maintain a backup generator to operate gas  pumps  in  the
   event of loss of electricity

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
 399-eeee to read as follows:
   § 399-EEEE. PLACEMENT OF BACKUP GENERATORS AT GAS STATIONS. 1.   EVERY
 RETAIL  GAS STATION LOCATED WITHIN THIS STATE SHALL BE REQUIRED TO MAIN-
 TAIN A BACKUP GENERATOR CAPABLE OF OPERATING ALL GAS PUMPS  SITUATED  ON
 THE PROPERTY FOR A PERIOD OF NO LESS THAN FORTY-EIGHT HOURS IN THE EVENT
 THAT THE RETAIL GAS STATION LOSES ITS MAIN SOURCE OF ELECTRICITY.
   2.  FOR  PURPOSES  OF  THIS SECTION, "RETAIL GAS STATION" SHALL MEAN A
 FILLING STATION WHERE GASOLINE IS STORED PRIMARILY FOR SALE BY  DELIVERY
 DIRECTLY  INTO  THE  ORDINARY  FUEL  TANK CONNECTED WITH THE ENGINE OF A
 MOTOR VEHICLE OR VESSEL TO BE CONSUMED IN THE OPERATION  OF  SUCH  MOTOR
 VEHICLE OR VESSEL.
   § 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.
                                                            LBD07209-01-5

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