Chapter 8.7. Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Open Access Act of California Health And Safety Code >> Division 26. >> Part 5. >> Chapter 8.7.
As used in this chapter, the following terms have the
following meanings:
(a) "Battery" means an electrochemical energy storage system
powered directly by electrical current.
(b) "Electric vehicle" means a vehicle that uses a plug-in battery
to provide all or part of the motive power of the vehicle, including
battery electric, plug-in hybrid electric, or plug-in fuel cell
vehicle.
(c) "Electric vehicle charging station" means one or more publicly
available parking spaces served by electric vehicle service
equipment.
(d) "Electric vehicle service equipment" means an electric
component assembly or cluster of component assemblies designed
specifically to charge batteries within electric vehicles by
permitting the transfer of electric energy to a battery or other
storage device in an electric vehicle.
(e) "Interoperability billing standards" means the ability for a
member of one electric charging station billing network to use
another billing network.
(f) "Network roaming" means the act of a member of one electric
vehicle charging station billing network using a charging station
that is outside of the member's billing network with his or her
billing network account information.
(g) "Publicly available parking space" means a parking space that
has been designated by a property owner or lessee to be available to,
and accessible by, the public and may include on-street parking
spaces and parking spaces in surface lots or parking garages.
"Publicly available parking space" shall not include a parking space
that is part of, or associated with, a private residence, a parking
space that is reserved for the exclusive use of an individual driver
or vehicle or for a group of drivers or vehicles, such as employees,
tenants, visitors, residents of a common interest development, or
residents of an adjacent building, or a parking space provided by a
producer of electric vehicles as a service. Nothing in this article
limits the ability of an owner or lessee of a publicly available
parking space whose primary business is other than electric vehicle
charging from restricting use of the parking space, such as limiting
use to customers and visitors of the business.
(a) (1) Persons desiring to use an electric vehicle
charging station that requires payment of a fee shall not be required
to pay a subscription fee in order to use the station, and shall not
be required to obtain membership in any club, association, or
organization as a condition of using the station. The total actual
charges for the use of an electric vehicle charging station,
including any additional network roaming charges for nonmembers,
shall be disclosed to the public at the point of sale. An electric
vehicle charging station that requires payment of a fee shall allow a
person desiring to use the station to pay via credit card or mobile
technology, or both.
(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), an electric vehicle charging
station may offer services on a subscription- or membership-only
basis provided those electric vehicle charging stations allow
nonsubscribers or nonmembers the ability to use the electric vehicle
charging station through the payment options detailed in paragraph
(1).
(b) The service provider of electric vehicle service equipment at
an electric vehicle charging station or its designee shall disclose
to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory the electric vehicle
charging station's geographic location, a schedule of fees, accepted
methods of payment, and the amount of network roaming charges for
nonmembers, if any.
(c) Electric vehicle charging stations shall be labeled in
accordance with Part 309 of Title 16 of the Code of Federal
Regulations, and, where commercially reasonable and feasible, may be
clearly marked with appropriate directional signage in the parking
area or facility where they are located.
(d) If no interoperability billing standards have been adopted by
a national standards organization by January 1, 2015, the state board
may adopt interoperability billing standards for network roaming
payment methods for electric vehicle charging stations. If the state
board adopts interoperability billing standards, all electric vehicle
charging stations that require payment shall meet those standards
within one year. Any standards adopted by the state board shall
consider other governmental or industry-developed interoperability
billing standards and may adopt interoperability billing standards
promulgated by an outside authoritative body.