Int 0413-2024
Prohibiting ice cream trucks from using generators or engines powered by carbon-based fuel to provide electricity for food equipment.
IntroductionFiledCommittee on Environmental Protection, Resiliency and Waterfrontsintroduced 2024-02-28
Filed — closed without being enacted.
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Agenda: 2024-02-28Passed: 2025-12-31
Summary
This bill would prohibit ice cream trucks operating in the city from using generators or engines powered by carbon-based fuel to provide electricity for food equipment, such as freezers and soft serve machines.
Committee on Environmental Protection, Resiliency and Waterfronts — Department of Environmental Protection and Office of Long Term Planning and Sustainability and Office of Recovery and Resiliency.
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2 passed · 48 died
This bill: 672 days in committee
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Sponsors (4)
Lifecycle
IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2024-02-28 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2024-02-28 · City Council
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2025-12-31 · City Council
Heard at (1)
City Council · 2024-02-28 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Attachments (5)
- Summary of Int. No. 413
- Int. No. 413
- February 28, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda
- Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-28-24
- Minutes of the Stated Meeting - February 28, 2024
Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Subchapter 7 of chapter 1 of title 24 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 24-163.13 to read as follows:
� 24-163.13 Ice cream trucks. a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
Food equipment. The term "food equipment" means an ice cream truck's freezer, refrigeration unit, soft serve machine, and any other equipment necessary to serve food from an ice cream truck.
Ice cream truck. The term "ice cream truck" means any vehicle from which ice cream and other frozen desserts are sold or offered for sale to the public.
b. No ice cream truck operating in the city may use a generator or engine that is powered by any carbon-based fuel to provide electrical power for food equipment.
� 2. This local law takes effect 3 years after it becomes law.
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LS # 9277
1/25/2024
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