Relates to certificates of registration for entities that manufacture or assemble zero emissions vehicles and have no franchised motor vehicle dealers in New York.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A4614
SPONSOR: Fahy TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to certificates
of registration for entities that manufacture or assemble zero emissions
vehicles and have no franchised motor vehicle dealers in New York
PURPOSE:
To increase the certificates of registration for entities that manufac-
ture or assemble zero emissions vehicles to open sales locations in New
York State
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 3.: Removes the limit on the number of certificate of registra-
tions the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles may issue and renew to manufac-
turers that manufacture or assemble exclusively zero emission vehicles
(ZEVs) and adds the requirement that an eligible manufacturer must not
have a franchised motor vehicle dealer of the same line-make in the
State.
Section 2: This act shall take effect immediately.
JUSTIFICATION:
Currently, New York law only allows five electric vehicle (EV) direct
sales locations throughout the State. Due to overwhelming demand, these
stores are all located downstate, leaving upstate residents without
convenient and accessible locations to purchase zero-emission vehicles
(ZEVs), and preventing any additional electric vehicle companies from
opening stores in the State.
The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) requires the
State to achieve a carbon-free electricity system by 2040, and codifies
the goals of a 40% reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from 1990
levels by 2030, and 85% by 2050. Additionally, the Governor has set the
goal of having 850,000 EVs on the road by 2025, and two million EVs by
2030 through the 2014 Multi-State ZEV Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).
As of September 2020, New York had only achieved 3% of the 2025 goal.
New York cannot meet these goals and targets without increased adoption
of electric vehicles. Allowing more direct sales locations from multiple
EV manufacturers will increase near-term economic investment and employ-
ment opportunities in retail and service locations and make it easier
for New Yorkers across the state to purchase electric vehicles.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New bill.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
________________________________________________________________________
4614
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 4, 2021
___________
Introduced by M. of A. FAHY -- read once and referred 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.
LBD07880-01-1
A. 4614 2
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.
