What's happening
This bill requires New York gas stations to provide accessible assistance devices and signage for disabled motorists at self-service pumps.
Why it matters
Enhances independence and safety for disabled drivers. by ensuring they can get fuel assistance without leaving their vehicles or relying on bystanders, addressing a significant barrier to mobility.
Mandates accessible signaling devices and clear signage. at gas stations, making it easier for disabled motorists to communicate their needs and know when and how assistance is available, in line with ADA guidelines.
Limits financial and operational burdens on small or minimally staffed stations. by exempting those operated by only one person or with remote-only operations, and provides a phased compliance timeline based on ownership size.
Promotes statewide consistency and equity. by requiring compliance from both single-station and multi-station owners, ensuring that accessible fueling assistance becomes broadly available to disabled drivers across New York.
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Who cares
Disabled motorists with valid disabled license plates
The bill would require covered self-service gas stations to provide a call device and attendant fueling assistance at no additional charge beyond the publicly offered fuel price.
Gas station owners and operators
Covered stations would have to install accessible call devices and signs, with compliance deadlines based on how many New York stations an owner owns.
Gas station attendants and cashiers
Employees at covered stations would need to respond to assistance requests and dispense fuel, while stations operated by one cashier with remote-control dispensing equipment would be exempt.
Headline styles
Help Disabled Drivers at Pumps
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
1 Co-sponsor
History
- Referred to economic development
- Referred to economic development
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Help Disabled Drivers at Pumps
In Senate Committee · Consumer Protection · Sponsor Kevin S. Parker
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
764
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 10, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI, WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Economic Development
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to providing gas station assistance to disabled motorists
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivisions 2 and 3 of section 396-bb of the general business law are renumbered subdivisions 3 and 4 and a new subdivision 2 is added to read as follows:
2. a. Any gasoline station offering the public sale of gasoline at self-service islands shall provide a minimum of one self-service island device that allows a disabled person, parked at that station in a vehicle displaying a disabled license plate issued by New York state or a valid disabled license plate issued by any other state, or a valid disabled license plate issued by the federal government, to signal an employee that the driver requires assistance in dispensing motor fuel. An attendant shall then arrive to dispense motor fuel at no additional cost beyond the price that the fuel is being offered to the general public. A device shall be installed that alerts the employee inside the building that assistance is required at the pump, and shall be mounted between thirty-four and forty-eight inches from the ground. A sign shall be conspicuously posted at the self-service station that meets the American Disability Act Accessibility Guidelines identifying the call device and the hours when assistance will be available and operable from the vehicle.
b. The gasoline station shall not be required to provide the service provided for in paragraph a of this subdivision during times when such station is being operated on a remote control basis by only one employee and a passenger in that vehicle is reasonably capable of dispensing motor fuel. Paragraph a of this subdivision shall not apply to gasoline
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04464-01-9
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stations that are operated by one cashier and remote control equipment for dispensing motor fuel.
c. If an owner owns only one gasoline station in New York state, then that gas station must be in compliance within one year of the effective date of this subdivision. If an owner owns more than one gasoline station in New York state then the owner must make at least fifty percent of those gasoline stations compliant with this subdivision within one year of the effective date of this subdivision. In either case the owner must be in compliance within three years of the effective date of this subdivision.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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