STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 487 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 4, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SQUADRON, HOYLMAN -- 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 prohibiting idling by heavy-duty 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 19-0326 to read as follows: 3 § 19-0326. Prohibition on idling by heavy-duty vehicles. 4 1. No person shall allow or permit the idling of a heavy-duty vehicle 5 for more than three minutes except as otherwise provided by the depart- 6 ment in regulation. 7 2. The department may adopt and update, from time to time, regulations 8 necessary to implement the provisions of this section. The regulations 9 shall include any exemptions deemed by the department to be necessary or 10 appropriate. 11 3. As used in this section "heavy-duty vehicle" means a vehicle that 12 has a gross vehicle weight rating exceeding eight thousand five hundred 13 pounds designed primarily for transporting persons or properties. 14 4. The department, in cooperation with the department of motor vehi- 15 cles, shall conduct outreach and provide educational materials on the 16 provisions of this section to law enforcement officers throughout the 17 state. 18 5. No local law or ordinance governing the idling of heavy-duty vehi- 19 cles shall be preempted by this section. This section shall not apply to 20 authorized emergency vehicles as defined in section one hundred one of 21 the vehicle and traffic law that are exempt from the idling restrictions 22 set forth in section 24-163 of the administrative code of the city of 23 New York. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01911-01-7

S. 487 2 1 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 2 have become a law.