Bill Text: NY A08450 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8450

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    November 17, 2021
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        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