Sponsored by:
Assemblyman PARKER SPACE
District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblyman Wirths
SYNOPSIS
Permits idling of motor vehicles on residential property.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning the idling of motor vehicles and supplementing P.L.1954, c.212 (C.26:2C-1 et seq.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Notwithstanding any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, no person shall be prevented from or penalized for causing, suffering, allowing, or permitting the engine of a gasoline-fueled motor vehicle to idle on residential property.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill would allow a person to idle a gasoline-fueled motor vehicle on residential property.
Idling is a common method of warming up a motor vehicle before driving. The current Department of Environmental Protection regulation concerning motor vehicle idling, N.J.A.C.7:27-15.8, prevents a person from idling a gasoline-fueled motor vehicle for more than three minutes under most circumstances. While the regulation provides seven exemptions from this prohibition, there is no exemption for warming up a car on residential property. This bill would prevent a person from being penalized for warming up a motor vehicle on residential property.