STATE OF NEW YORK
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                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 1, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. COLTON, GLICK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
          GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  prohibiting
          certain devices which enhance a vehicle's capacity to emit soot, smoke
          or other particulate emissions

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 375 of the vehicle and traffic law
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph (f) to read as follows:
     3    (f) No person shall  retrofit  any  diesel-powered  vehicle  with  any
     4  device,  smoke  stack,  or  other equipment which enhances the vehicle's
     5  capacity to emit soot, smoke, or other particulate emissions,  or  shall
     6  purposely release significant quantities of soot, smoke, or other parti-
     7  culate emissions into the air and onto roadways and other vehicles while
     8  operating  the  vehicle.  Any  such  violation  shall be punishable as a
     9  misdemeanor.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05598-01-1