File #: Int 0853-2015    Version: * Name: Sale and use of diesel-powered leaf blowers and lawn mowers.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Environmental Protection
On agenda: 7/23/2015
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the sale and use of diesel-powered leaf blowers and lawn mowers
Sponsors: Daniel Dromm , Rosie Mendez, Karen Koslowitz, Barry S. Grodenchik
Council Member Sponsors: 4
Summary: This local law prohibits sale or use of diesel powered leaf blowers or lawn mowers after September 1, 2017.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 853

Int. No. 853

 

By Council Members Dromm, Mendez, Koslowitz and Grodenchik

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the sale and use of diesel-powered leaf blowers and lawn mowers

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

                     Section 1. Chapter 4 of title 20 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subchapter 13 to read as follows:

SUBCHAPTER 13

LAWN CARE DEVICES

                                          § 20-699.7 Diesel-powered leaf blowers and lawn mowers.

                                          § 20-699.8 Penalty.

                     § 20-699.7 Diesel-powered leaf blowers and lawn mowers. No person shall distribute, sell or offer for sale a diesel-powered leaf blower or diesel-powered lawn mower after September 1, 2017.

                     § 20-699.8 Penalty. a. A person who violates any provision of this subchapter shall be subject to a civil penalty of not less than $250 nor more than $1,000 for each violation.

b. Civil penalties under this section may be recovered by the department in an action in any court of appropriate jurisdiction or in a proceeding before the environmental control board. Such board shall have the power to impose civil penalties provided for in this section.

c. The civil penalties set forth in subdivision a of this section shall be indexed to inflation in a manner to be determined by department rules.

§ 2. Section 24-242 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subdivision c to read as follows:

                     (c) No person shall operate a diesel-powered leaf blower or diesel-powered lawn mower after September 1, 2017.

§ 3. This local law takes effect immediately.

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