Bill Text: NY S07035 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the idling of any passenger vehicle, with certain exceptions, for more than 3 consecutive minutes; first violation is a warning, second violations of such section are traffic infractions punishable by a fine of $150.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-17 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S07035 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S07035-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7035
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 17, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
        AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation  to  the
          idling time of passenger 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 19-0327 to read as follows:
     3  § 19-0327. Emissions from passenger vehicles; limitations.
     4    1.  For  the  purposes of this section, the following terms shall have
     5  the following meanings:
     6    (a) "Passenger vehicle" shall mean any motor vehicle, light-duty truck
     7  with a gross vehicle weight of eighty-five hundred pounds  or  less,  or
     8  any  other vehicle whose primary use is noncommercial personal transpor-
     9  tation.  Such definition shall also include "motorcycle", "taxicab"  and
    10  "livery"  as  such  terms  are defined in article one of the vehicle and
    11  traffic law.
    12    (b) "Hybrid-electric vehicle" shall mean any passenger  vehicle  which
    13  draws propulsion from both an internal combustion engine (or heat engine
    14  that  uses  combustible  fuel),  an  energy storage device and employs a
    15  regenerative vehicle braking system that recovers waste energy to charge
    16  such energy storage device.
    17    2.  No person shall allow or permit the engine of a passenger  vehicle
    18  to idle for more than three consecutive minutes when the passenger vehi-
    19  cle is not in motion, except that this provision shall not apply when:
    20    (a)  such  vehicle  is  forced to remain motionless because of traffic
    21  conditions over which the operator thereof has no control;
    22    (b) regulations adopted by a federal, state  or  local  agency  having
    23  jurisdiction  require  the  maintenance  of  a  specific temperature for
    24  passenger comfort, in which case the idling time may be increased to the
    25  extent necessary to comply with such regulations;
    26    (c) a hybrid-electric vehicle is idling for the purpose  of  providing
    27  energy for the battery or other form of energy storage recharging;
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03393-01-5