Bill Text: NY S00037 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Prohibits certain devices which enhance a vehicle's capacity to emit soot, smoke or other particulate emissions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S00037 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S00037-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           37
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 4, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens.  HOYLMAN,  GIANARIS,  KENNEDY,  KRUEGER,  PERALTA,
          PERKINS, SERRANO -- read twice and ordered printed, and  when  printed
          to be committed 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.
                                                                   LBD05848-01-7
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