Bill Text: NJ A3613 | 2022-2023 | 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) 2022-03-17 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee [A3613 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2022-A3613-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 3613

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

220th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MARCH 17, 2022

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  PARKER SPACE

District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman Wirths

 

 

 

 

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.