Bill Text: NY A09837 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires that snowmobile noise emissions do not exceed specified levels.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-04-18 - referred to tourism, parks, arts and sports development [A09837 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A09837-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         9837
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    April 18, 2012
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       Introduced by M. of A. BRINDISI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development
       AN  ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law, in
         relation to snowmobile noise emission levels
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (e)  of  subdivision 1 of section 25.17 of the
    2  parks, recreation and historic preservation law, as amended  by  chapter
    3  650 of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as follows:
    4    (e) Mufflers. An adequate muffler system in good working condition. On
    5  and  after  June first, nineteen seventy-two, no snowmobile manufactured
    6  after June first, nineteen seventy-two shall be sold or offered for sale
    7  unless it is equipped in such a way as to limit noise  produced  by  the
    8  snowmobile  to  not more than eighty-two decibels as measured on the "A"
    9  scale at fifty feet. On and after June first, nineteen seventy-five,  no
   10  such  snowmobile  manufactured  after  June first, nineteen seventy-five
   11  shall be sold or offered for sale unless it is equipped in such a way as
   12  to limit noise produced by the snowmobile to not more than seventy-eight
   13  decibels on such scale. On and after June  first,  nineteen  eighty,  no
   14  such snowmobile manufactured after June first, nineteen eighty, shall be
   15  sold or offered for sale unless it is equipped in such a way as to limit
   16  noise produced by the snowmobile to not more than seventy-three decibels
   17  on  such  scale.    ON  OR  AFTER NOVEMBER FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWELVE, A
   18  PERSON SHALL NOT OPERATE A SNOWMOBILE UNLESS THE SNOWMOBILE IS  EQUIPPED
   19  WITH  A  MUFFLER  IN  GOOD  WORKING ORDER AND IN CONSTANT OPERATION FROM
   20  WHICH NOISE EMISSION DOES NOT EXCEED EITHER  SEVENTY-EIGHT  DECIBELS  AT
   21  FIFTY  FEET, AS MEASURED USING THE TWO THOUSAND THREE SOCIETY OF AUTOMO-
   22  TIVE ENGINEERS STANDARD J192 FOR A SNOWMOBILE  MANUFACTURED  AFTER  JULY
   23  FIRST,  NINETEEN  HUNDRED  SEVENTY-SEVEN AND SOLD OR OFFERED FOR SALE IN
   24  THIS STATE, OR EIGHTY-EIGHT DECIBELS, AS MEASURED USING THE TWO THOUSAND
   25  FOUR SOCIETY OF AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERS STANDARD  J2567  FOR  A  STATIONARY
   26  SNOWMOBILE  MANUFACTURED  AFTER  JULY FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED EIGHTY AND
   27  SOLD OR OFFERED FOR SALE IN THIS STATE. Should  the  federal  government
   28  adopt snowmobile noise level standards different from those contained in
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD15265-02-2
       A. 9837                             2
    1  this  paragraph  and require that the state conform thereto, the commis-
    2  sioner shall be authorized to adopt rules  and  regulations  superseding
    3  the  noise  level  requirements  of this paragraph to achieve compliance
    4  with  federal standards.   No snowmobile shall be modified by any person
    5  in any manner that shall amplify or otherwise increase total noise emis-
    6  sion to  a  level  greater  than  that  emitted  by  the  snowmobile  as
    7  originally constructed, regardless of date of manufacture.
    8    S 2. This act shall take effect November 1, 2012.