Bill Text: NY A08519 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits certain devices which enhance a vehicle's capacity to emit soot, smoke or other particulate emissions.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to transportation [A08519 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A08519-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8519 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY August 7, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. COLTON -- read once and referred 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. LBD03246-01-9
