Senate Bill S4977

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to certificates of registration for entities that manufacture or assemble zero emissions vehicles and have no franchised motor vehicle dealers in New York

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S4977 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3779
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §415, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S1763, A4614

2023-S4977 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to certificates of registration for entities that manufacture or assemble zero emissions vehicles and have no franchised motor vehicle dealers in New York.

2023-S4977 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S4977 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4977
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 17, 2023
                                ___________
 
 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:
 
   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,
 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,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04063-01-3

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