Requires the installation and maintenance of outdoor lithium-ion battery charging stations at multiple dwellings as part of the state uniform fire prevention and building code; prohibits charging lithium-ion batteries used in powered mobility devices inside of multiple dwellings.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3761
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 29, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction and
Community Development
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring the instal-
lation and maintenance of outdoor lithium-ion battery charging
stations at multiple dwellings
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 20 of section 378 of the executive law, as
2 renumbered by section 3 of part RR of chapter 56 of the laws of 2023, is
3 renumbered subdivision 21 and a new subdivision 20 is added to read as
4 follows:
5 20. a. Standards (i) requiring the installation and maintenance at all
6 multiple dwellings of at least one outdoor charging station for lithi-
7 um-ion batteries used in powered mobility devices by the residents of
8 such multiple dwelling; and (ii) prohibiting charging lithium-ion
9 batteries used in powered mobility devices inside of multiple dwellings.
10 b. As used in this subdivision, the following terms shall have the
11 following meanings:
12 (i) "Lithium-ion battery" means a storage battery in which an elec-
13 trical current is generated by lithium ions embedded in a carbon
14 graphite or nickel metal-oxide substrate placed in a high-viscosity
15 carbonate mixture or gelled polymer electrolyte.
16 (ii) "Powered mobility device" means a bicycle with electric assist as
17 defined by section one hundred two-c of the vehicle and traffic law, an
18 electric scooter as defined by section one hundred fourteen-e of the
19 vehicle and traffic law, a limited use motorcycle as defined by section
20 one hundred twenty-one-b of the vehicle and traffic law, which is
21 powered wholly or partially by an electric motor, an electrical personal
22 assistive mobility device as defined in section one hundred fourteen-d
23 of the vehicle and traffic law or other personal mobility device
24 equipped with a lithium-ion or other storage battery, including but not
25 limited to, a skateboard, unicycle, or other similar wheeled device.
26 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08144-01-5
