Relates to certificates of registration for entities that manufacture or assemble zero emissions vehicles and have no franchised motor vehicle dealers in New York.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4977
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 17, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to certificates
of registration for entities that manufacture or assemble zero emis-
sions vehicles and have no franchised motor vehicle dealers in New
York
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph f of subdivision 7 of
2 section 415 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 26 of
3 the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
4 (iii) Notwithstanding any other provision of this paragraph or any
5 provision of paragraph (bb) of subdivision two of section four hundred
6 sixty-three of this title, the commissioner may issue and renew [any] a
7 certificate of registration [that was issued] to a franchisor, manufac-
8 turer, distributor, distributor branch or factory branch, as such terms
9 are defined in section four hundred sixty-two of this title, or to any
10 subsidiary, affiliate or controlled entity thereof[, prior to March
11 twenty-sixth, two thousand fourteen]; provided, however, that such fran-
12 chisor, manufacturer, distributor, distributor branch or factory branch,
13 or any subsidiary, affiliate or controlled entity thereof, (1) is a
14 manufacturer that manufactures or assembles exclusively zero emissions
15 vehicles, or is a subsidiary, affiliate, or controlled entity of such a
16 manufacturer; and (2) has no franchised motor vehicle dealer of the same
17 line-make in this state; and provided further, in the case of renewal,
18 that a controlling interest in such original franchisor, manufacturer,
19 distributor, distributor branch or factory branch or any subsidiary,
20 affiliate or controlled entity was not transferred, sold or conveyed to
21 another person or entity, other than to a subsidiary, affiliate or
22 controlled entity of such franchisor, manufacturer, distributor,
23 distributor branch or factory branch. For purposes of this paragraph,
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04063-01-3
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1 zero emission vehicles shall have the same meaning as under part two
2 hundred eighteen of title six of the New York code of rules and regu-
3 lations.
4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
