File #: Int 0922-2012    Version: * Name: Exempting zero emission vehicles from idling restrictions.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Environmental Protection
On agenda: 8/22/2012
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to exempting zero emission vehicles from idling restrictions.
Sponsors: James Vacca, Gale A. Brewer, Lewis A. Fidler, Vincent J. Gentile, Letitia James, Peter A. Koo, G. Oliver Koppell, Brad S. Lander, Annabel Palma, Jumaane D. Williams, Ruben Wills, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Daniel J. Halloran III
Council Member Sponsors: 13
Int. No. 922
 
By Council Members Vacca, Brewer, Fidler, Gentile, James, Koo, Koppell, Lander, Palma, Williams, Wills, Mark-Viverito and Halloran   
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to exempting zero emission vehicles from idling restrictions.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
Section 1. Section 24-163 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subdivision h to read as follows:
      (h) The restrictions of this section shall not apply to zero emission vehicles, which for the purposes of this section shall mean any motor vehicle that produces no tailpipe emissions from its source of power.
ยง2. This local law shall take effect ninety days after its enactment.
 
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