Bill Text: NJ A2944 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits idling of motor vehicles on residential property.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-20 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee [A2944 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2020-A2944-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 2944

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

219th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 20, 2020

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  PARKER SPACE

District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Permits idling of motor vehicles on residential property.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

 

An Act concerning the idling of motor vehicles and supplementing P.L.1954, c.212 (C.26:2C-1 et seq.).

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    Notwithstanding any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, no person shall be prevented from or penalized for causing, suffering, allowing, or permitting the engine of a gasoline-fueled motor vehicle to idle on residential property.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill would allow a person to idle a gasoline-fueled motor vehicle on residential property.

     Idling is a common method of warming up a motor vehicle before driving.  The current Department of Environmental Protection regulation concerning motor vehicle idling, N.J.A.C.7:27-15.8, prevents a person from idling a gasoline-fueled motor vehicle for more than three minutes under most circumstances.  While the regulation provides seven exemptions from this prohibition, there is no exemption for warming up a car on residential property.  This bill would prevent a person from being penalized for warming up a motor vehicle on residential property.