Requires electric vehicle charging stations and electric vehicle capable parking spaces to have handicap accessible spaces that are large enough to accommodate such wheelchair accessible electric vehicles, including but not limited to, vans and minivans.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8979
IN SENATE
April 4, 2024
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Introduced by Sen. PERSAUD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
cations
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring
electric vehicle charging stations and electric vehicle capable park-
ing spaces to accommodate wheelchair accessible electric vehicles
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. 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. Such electric vehicle charging stations shall include spaces
8 that are large enough to accommodate wheelchair accessible electric
9 vehicles, including but not limited to, vans and minivans. The authority
10 shall annually post on their website a report on those activities under-
11 taken pursuant to this subdivision, including but not limited to: the
12 total number of electric vehicle charging stations in operation pursuant
13 to such authorization, the locations of such charging stations, and the
14 total costs to the authority associated with such activities.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
16 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11166-01-3
