File #: Int 1156-2023    Version: * Name: Prohibiting ice cream trucks from using generators or engines powered by carbon-based fuel to provide electricity for food equipment.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Environmental Protection, Resiliency and Waterfronts
On agenda: 8/3/2023
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting ice cream trucks from using generators or engines powered by carbon-based fuel to provide electricity for food equipment
Sponsors: Lincoln Restler, Gale A. Brewer, Farah N. Louis, Shahana K. Hanif, Kristin Richardson Jordan, Christopher Marte, Shekar Krishnan, Sandy Nurse
Council Member Sponsors: 8
Summary: This bill would prohibit ice cream trucks operating in the city from using generators or engines powered by carbon-based fuel to provide electricity for food equipment, such as freezers and soft serve machines.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1156, 2. Int. No. 1156, 3. August 3, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 8-3-23, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - August 3, 2023

Int. No. 1156

 

By Council Members Restler, Brewer, Louis, Hanif, Richardson Jordan, Marte, Krishnan and Nurse

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting ice cream trucks from using generators or engines powered by carbon-based fuel to provide electricity for food equipment

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subchapter 7 of chapter 1 of title 24 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 24-163.13 to read as follows:

§ 24-163.13 Ice cream trucks. a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

Food equipment. The term “food equipment” means an ice cream truck’s freezer, refrigeration unit, soft serve machine, and any other equipment necessary to serve food from an ice cream truck.

Ice cream truck. The term “ice cream truck” means any vehicle from which ice cream and other frozen desserts are sold or offered for sale to the public.

b. No ice cream truck operating in the city may use a generator or engine that is powered by any carbon-based fuel to provide electrical power for food equipment.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 3 years after it becomes law.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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7/27/2023 12:34 PM