Bill Text: NY S00686 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 686 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S00686 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S00686-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           686

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. HOYLMAN, GIANARIS, KENNEDY, KRUEGER, MAY, 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.
                                                                   LBD05598-01-1