Bill Text: NY A08558 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 8558 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Prohibits idling by heavy-duty vehicles.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-12-15 - enacting clause stricken [A08558 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A08558-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          8558
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      July 10, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. KAVANAGH, ARROYO, GOTTFRIED, PERRY, RIVERA, QUART
          --  Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M. of A. ABINANTI, CAHILL, COLTON, GLICK,
          RAIA, THIELE -- read once and referred to the  Committee  on  Environ-
          mental Conservation
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          prohibiting idling by heavy-duty vehicles
          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 19-0326 to read as follows:
     3  § 19-0326. Prohibition on idling by heavy-duty vehicles.
     4    1. No person shall allow or permit the idling of a heavy-duty  vehicle
     5  for  more than three minutes except as otherwise provided by the depart-
     6  ment in regulation.
     7    2. The department may adopt and update, from time to time, regulations
     8  necessary to implement the provisions of this section.  The  regulations
     9  shall include any exemptions deemed by the department to be necessary or
    10  appropriate.
    11    3.  As  used in this section "heavy-duty vehicle" means a vehicle that
    12  has a gross vehicle weight rating exceeding eight thousand five  hundred
    13  pounds designed primarily for transporting persons or properties.
    14    4.  The  department, in cooperation with the department of motor vehi-
    15  cles, shall conduct outreach and provide educational  materials  on  the
    16  provisions  of  this  section to law enforcement officers throughout the
    17  state.
    18    5. No local law or ordinance governing the idling of heavy-duty  vehi-
    19  cles shall be preempted by this section. This section shall not apply to
    20  authorized  emergency  vehicles as defined in section one hundred one of
    21  the vehicle and traffic law that are exempt from the idling restrictions
    22  set forth in section 24-163 of the administrative code of  the  city  of
    23  New York.
    24    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    25  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01911-01-7