Relates to requiring the power authority of the state of New York to post on its website and develop a corresponding mobile application with information on electric vehicle charging stations; requires the website and mobile application include a map with the addresses of each electric vehicle charging station in the state, whether the charging station is located in a parking lot, parking garage or on a street, whether there are fees required to use a charging station, and whether a charging station is out of service or otherwise unavailable.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4988
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 27, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Energy
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring the
power authority of the state of New York to post on its website and
develop a corresponding mobile application with information on elec-
tric vehicle charging stations
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 9-a of section 1005 of the public authorities
2 law, as added by section 1 of part KK of chapter 58 of the laws of 2019,
3 is amended to read as follows:
4 9-a. (a) As deemed feasible and advisable by the trustees, to design,
5 finance, develop, construct, install, lease, operate and maintain elec-
6 tric vehicle charging stations throughout the state for use by the
7 public. The authority shall annually post on their website a report on
8 those activities undertaken pursuant to this subdivision, including but
9 not limited to: the total number of electric vehicle charging stations
10 in operation pursuant to such authorization, the locations of such
11 charging stations, and the total costs to the authority associated with
12 such activities.
13 (b) In addition to the information required in paragraph (a) of this
14 subdivision, the authority shall also post on its website and develop a
15 corresponding mobile application with information, including but not
16 limited to: a map with the addresses of each electric vehicle charging
17 station in the state, the type of electric vehicle charger, whether the
18 charging station is located in a parking lot, parking garage or on a
19 street, whether there are fees required to use a charging station,
20 whether there is a fee to enter a lot where the charging station is
21 located, whether the charging station is publicly available, and whether
22 a charging station is out of service or otherwise unavailable. The
23 information required pursuant to this paragraph shall be updated no less
24 than monthly.
25 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
26 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02098-01-3
