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                                   3779
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 8, 2023
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. FAHY, ROZIC, SEAWRIGHT, PAULIN, GONZALEZ-ROJAS,
   KELLES,  COLTON,  SIMON,  STERN,  BURKE,   BICHOTTE HERMELYN,   RAMOS,
   JEAN-PIERRE,  THIELE, DARLING, WALKER, L. ROSENTHAL, GALLAGHER, JONES,
   ANDERSON, DINOWITZ, BURDICK, SILLITTI, SANTABARBARA, CARROLL,  DAVILA,
   LAVINE, JACOBSON, D. ROSENTHAL, HEVESI, STIRPE, BYRNES, CLARK, GANDOL-
   FO, DURSO, SIMPSON, BURGOS, DeSTEFANO, JACKSON, DICKENS, GIBBS, LUCAS,
   CUNNINGHAM,  K. BROWN,  WOERNER,  RAJKUMAR, PHEFFER AMATO -- 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:
 
   Section  1.  Subparagraph  (iii)  of  paragraph  f of subdivision 7 of
 section 415 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 26  of
 the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
   (iii)  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision of this paragraph or any
 provision of paragraph (bb) of subdivision two of section  four  hundred
 sixty-three  of this title, the commissioner may ISSUE AND renew [any] A
 certificate of registration [that was issued] to a franchisor,  manufac-
 turer,  distributor, distributor branch or factory branch, as such terms
 are defined in section four hundred sixty-two of this title, or  to  any
 subsidiary,  affiliate  or  controlled  entity  thereof[, prior to March
 twenty-sixth, two thousand fourteen]; provided, however, that such fran-
 chisor, manufacturer, distributor, distributor branch or factory branch,
 or any subsidiary, affiliate or controlled  entity  thereof,  (1)  is  a
 manufacturer  that  manufactures or assembles exclusively zero emissions
 vehicles, or is a subsidiary, affiliate, or controlled entity of such  a
 manufacturer; AND (2) HAS NO FRANCHISED MOTOR VEHICLE DEALER OF THE SAME
 LINE-MAKE  IN  THIS STATE; and provided further, IN THE CASE OF RENEWAL,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04063-01-3
              

 A. 3779                             2
 
 that a controlling interest in such original  franchisor,  manufacturer,
 distributor,  distributor  branch  or  factory branch or any subsidiary,
 affiliate or controlled entity was not transferred, sold or conveyed  to
 another  person  or  entity,  other  than  to a subsidiary, affiliate or
 controlled  entity  of  such  franchisor,   manufacturer,   distributor,
 distributor  branch  or  factory branch. For purposes of this paragraph,
 zero emission vehicles shall have the same meaning  as  under  part  two
 hundred  eighteen  of  title six of the New York code of rules and regu-
 lations.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.