STATE OF NEW YORK
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5880
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 24, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Libraries and Education Technology
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring libraries
have charging stations for plug-in electric vehicles
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 286 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 286. Electric vehicle charging stations. 1. For the purposes of this
4 section, the term "parking facility" shall mean a parking garage, park-
5 ing structure, or open parking lot that is paved and striped to desig-
6 nate individual parking spaces for vehicles.
7 2. Any parking facility owned and operated by a public library shall
8 include electric vehicle charging stations in at least five percent of
9 the total number of parking spaces offered by such library.
10 3. Each electric vehicle charging station required pursuant to this
11 section shall support electric vehicle charging with a minimum of forty
12 amperes and two hundred eight volts of electrical capacity. Such elec-
13 tric vehicle charging stations and all other components and work appur-
14 tenant thereto shall be in accordance with all applicable state, county,
15 city, town, or village electrical codes.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect three years after it shall have become
17 a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of
18 any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on
19 its effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before
20 such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09088-01-5
