File #: Int 0587-2003    Version: * Name: Penalties and signage regarding the idling of motor vehicles.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Environmental Protection
On agenda: 10/15/2003
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to penalties and signage regarding the idling of motor vehicles.
Sponsors: Eva S. Moskowitz, Tony Avella, Gale A. Brewer, Yvette D. Clarke, Leroy G. Comrie, Jr., Erik Martin Dilan, Alan J. Gerson, Eric N. Gioia, Allan W. Jennings, Jr., G. Oliver Koppell, John C. Liu, Margarita Lopez, Miguel Martinez, Michael E. McMahon, Hiram Monserrate, Christine C. Quinn, Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., Philip Reed, Diana Reyna, Joel Rivera, James Sanders, Jr., Helen Sears, Kendall Stewart, Albert Vann, David I. Weprin, David Yassky, Simcha Felder, Michael C. Nelson, Helen D. Foster, Lewis A. Fidler, Bill Perkins
Council Member Sponsors: 31
Attachments: 1. Committee Report, 2. Hearing Transcript
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2003*Eva S. Moskowitz City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/13/2003*Eva S. Moskowitz Committee on Environmental Protection Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/13/2003*Eva S. Moskowitz Committee on Environmental Protection Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/15/2003*Eva S. Moskowitz City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/15/2003*Eva S. Moskowitz City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 587
By Council Members Moskowitz, Avella, Brewer, Clarke, Comrie, Dilan, Gerson, Gioia, Jennings, Koppell, Liu, Lopez, Martinez, McMahon, Monserrate, Quinn, Recchia, Reed, Reyna, Rivera, Sanders, Sears, Stewart, Vann, Weprin, Yassky, Felder, Nelson, Foster, Fidler and Perkins

Title
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to penalties and signage regarding the idling of motor vehicles.
Body

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Subparagraph (ii) of paragraph 5 of subdivision b of section 24-178 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by inserting the following line in the Table of Civil Penalties, immediately following the line regarding civil penalties for a violation of section 24-162(c) of this chapter:
24-163 1,500 750
?2. Section 24-163 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:
(a) Operation of motor vehicle; idling of engine restricted. No person shall cause or
permit the engine of a motor vehicle, other than a legally authorized emergency motor vehicle, to idle for longer than three minutes while parking as defined in section one hundred twenty-nine of the vehicle and traffic law, standing as defined in section one hundred forty-five of the vehicle and traffic law, or stopping as defined in section one hundred forty-seven of the vehicle and traffic law, unless the engine is used to operate a loading, unloading or processing device. When the ambient temperature is in excess of forty degrees Fahrenheit, no person shall cause or permit the engine of a bus as defined in section one hundred four of the vehicle and traffic law to idle while parking, standing, or stopping (as defined above) at any terminal point, whether or not enclosed, along an established route.

(b) The department of transportation shall, at every bus terminal point in New York city
and at other appropriate locations throughout the city as determined by the commissioner and the commissioner of transportation, which shall include all bus staging and waiting areas, post signs that state the idling restrictions contained in subdivision a of this section and the penalties that may be imposed for a violation of that subdivision, contained in sections 24-178 and 24-190 of this code.
? 3. This local law shall take effect sixty days after its enactment.

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