Provides an exemption from any congestion pricing fees for any clean fuel vehicle, electric vehicle, or vehicle that meets the clean vehicle standards.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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IN ASSEMBLY
April 10, 2018
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Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to providing an
exemption from any congestion pricing fees for any clean fuel vehicle,
electric vehicle, or vehicle that meets the clean vehicle standards
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding four new
2 sections 107-a, 114-e, 159-b and 391-a to read as follows:
3 § 107-a. Clean fuel vehicle. Every motor vehicle which qualifies as
4 clean-fuel vehicle property pursuant to subsection (c) of section one
5 hundred seventy-nine-A of the federal Internal Revenue Code.
6 § 114-e. Electric vehicle. Every motor vehicle which is a qualified
7 electric vehicle pursuant to subsection (c) of section thirty of the
8 federal Internal Revenue Code.
9 § 159-b. Vehicle that meets the clean vehicle standards. Every motor
10 vehicle which (a) is certified, as provided for under the provisions of
11 the federal Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. section 7401 et seq., as amended)
12 as meeting exhaust emission standards for super-ultra-low emission vehi-
13 cles which the state of California has adopted (California Code of Regu-
14 lations, Title 13) and is permitted to adopt under 42 U.S.C. section
15 7543, and which other states are permitted to adopt under 42 U.S.C.
16 section 7503, and (b) has a fuel efficiency that is at least one and
17 one-half times the average fuel efficiency for vehicles in its weight
18 class.
19 § 391-a. Exemption from congestion pricing for clean vehicles. Any
20 clean fuel vehicle, electric vehicle, or vehicle that meets the clean
21 vehicle standards shall be exempt from any congestion pricing fees
22 implemented in the state. Any congestion pricing program implemented in
23 the state shall be required to contain in the terms of such program an
24 exemption from any fees for any clean fuel vehicle, electric vehicle, or
25 vehicle that meets the clean vehicle standards.
26 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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