Bill Text: NY A08450 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits the sale of gasoline powered leaf blowers and lawn mowers in the state; requires the commissioner to promulgate rules to enact such prohibition by January 1, 2023.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to environmental conservation [A08450 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A08450-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8450 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY November 17, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Environmental Conservation AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to prohibiting the sale of gasoline powered leaf blowers and lawn mowers The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a 2 new section 19-0306-c to read as follows: 3 § 19-0306-c. Sale of certain gas-powered lawn care devices prohibited. 4 The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations which shall 5 prohibit the sale of gasoline powered leaf blowers and lawn mowers in 6 the state by January first, two thousand twenty-three. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13529-01-1