Age limitations on school buses and replacing such school buses with all electric school buses.

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to age limitations on school buses and replacing such school buses with all electric school buses

The local law amends Title 24 of the New York City Administrative Code, adding a new section § 24-163.9 (k) to require that commencing September 1, 2020, all school buses subject to New York City school bus contracts, that do not use a closed crankcase ventilation system, shall be electric vehicles. Electricity for such electric vehicles shall be generated on-site. This local law further requires that all other school buses, shall, after ten years of use, be replaced by compressed natural gas, hybrid school buses or all electric, and further provides that use of such compressed natural gas or hybrid school buses is limited to ten years and such school buses must thereafter be replaced with all electric zero emission school buses, and as long as the particulate matter emissions of all such school buses does not exceed emission levels permitted in the most recent diesel engine emissions standards issued by the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the mileage meets the most recent corporate average fuel economy standards for compact and large trucks.