STATE OF NEW YORK
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4386--B
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 4, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. O'DONNELL, EPSTEIN, DICKENS, COLTON, GOTTFRIED,
GLICK, THIELE, ABINANTI, LAWLER -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Governmental Operations -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee -- recommitted to the Committee on Governmental Operations in
accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to requiring the
construction of certain parking facilities to be capable of supporting
electric vehicle charging stations
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section
2 19-a to read as follows:
3 § 19-a. Parking facilities; support for electric vehicle charging
4 stations. 1. For purposes of this section the term "construction
5 project" shall mean any construction project performed under private
6 contract that receives state capital funding.
7 2. Any construction project undertaken in this state where the scope
8 of such project includes a parking garage, open parking lot, or other
9 parking facility that offers between fifty and two hundred parking spac-
10 es shall be capable of supporting electric vehicle charging stations for
11 a minimum of ten percent of available parking spaces through an elec-
12 trical raceway to the electric supply panel serving such parking garage,
13 open parking lot, or other parking facility that shall be capable of
14 providing a minimum of forty amps and two hundred eight volts of elec-
15 trical capacity to each charging station connected to the raceway. Such
16 raceway and all components and work appurtenant thereto shall be in
17 accordance with all applicable state, city and municipal electrical
18 codes.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 3. Any construction project undertaken in this state where the scope
2 of such project includes a parking garage, open parking lot, or other
3 parking facility that offers more than two hundred parking spaces shall
4 be capable of supporting electric vehicle charging stations for a mini-
5 mum of twenty percent of available parking spaces through an electrical
6 raceway to the electric supply panel serving such parking garage, open
7 parking lot, or other parking facility that shall be capable of provid-
8 ing a minimum of forty amps and two hundred eight volts of electrical
9 capacity to each charging station connected to the raceway. Such raceway
10 and all components and work appurtenant thereto shall be in accordance
11 with all applicable state, city and municipal electrical codes.
12 4. Nothing in this section shall require the installation of electric
13 vehicle charging stations in any parking garage, open parking lot or
14 other parking facility.
15 5. Any construction project undertaken pursuant to subdivisions two
16 and three of this section shall comply with the provisions of article
17 eight of the labor law, including the payment of a wage of not less than
18 the prevailing wage pursuant to section two hundred twenty of the labor
19 law in the locality where such parking garage, open parking lot, or
20 other parking facility is located.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2023 and shall apply to
22 contracts for new construction entered into on and after such date.
