File #: Int 0915-2009    Version: * Name: Idle reduction technology in ambulances.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Environmental Protection
On agenda: 1/28/2009
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to idle reduction technology in ambulances.
Sponsors: G. Oliver Koppell, Leroy G. Comrie, Jr., Alan J. Gerson, Robert Jackson, Letitia James, James Sanders, Jr., David I. Weprin, Thomas White, Jr., Michael C. Nelson
Council Member Sponsors: 9
Attachments: 1. Committee Report 1/26/09, 2. Hearing Testimony 1/26/09, 3. Hearing Transcript 1/26/09
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2009*G. Oliver Koppell City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/28/2009*G. Oliver Koppell City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/28/2009*G. Oliver Koppell City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/26/2009*G. Oliver Koppell Committee on Environmental Protection P-C Item Laid Over by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/26/2009*G. Oliver Koppell Committee on Environmental Protection Hearing on P-C Item by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 915
By Council Members Koppell, Comrie, Gerson, Jackson, James, Sanders Jr., Weprin, White Jr. and Nelson
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to idle reduction technology in ambulances.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Subchapter seven of chapter one of title 24 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to add a new section 24-163.8 as follows:
§24-163.8 Use of verified idle reduction technology in ambulances. a. For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall be defined as follows:
(1) “Auxiliary power unit” shall mean a device containing an engine certified by the United States environmental protection agency that supplies cooling, heating, and electrical power to trucks and other vehicles while the engine is turned off in order to reduce emissions.
(2) “Verified idle reduction technology” shall mean technology, including but not limited to, an auxiliary power unit, that has been verified by the United States environmental protection agency and allows the engine of a vehicle to be turned off while still providing services to the vehicle or equipment, such as heating or cooling of the cabin and which reduces tailpipe emissions from diesel-powered vehicles.
b. Each ambulance acquired by the city or by any 911 participating ambulance service provider after the enactment of this law shall be equipped with verified idle reduction technology.
§2. This local law shall take effect one hundred and twenty days after it is enacted.
MEA
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1/12/09