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                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
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 Introduced  by  Sens.  LIU, HARCKHAM, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, MYRIE -- read twice
   and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  prohibiting  the
   use of gas-powered leaf and lawn blowers during certain months
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
 1300-d to read as follows:
   § 1300-D. GAS-POWERED LEAF AND LAWN BLOWERS. NO PERSON SHALL OPERATE A
 GAS-POWERED  LEAF  AND LAWN BLOWER FOR ANY PURPOSE BETWEEN MAY FIRST AND
 SEPTEMBER THIRTIETH. ANY PERSON WHO  VIOLATES  THE  PROVISIONS  OF  THIS
 SECTION  SHALL  BE  SUBJECT TO A CIVIL FINE OF NOT MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED
 DOLLARS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect May 1, 2027.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01674-01-5