Current through Register 1531, September 27, 2024
(1)
Motor Vehicles.
(a)
All motor vehicles registered in the Commonwealth shall comply with pertinent
regulations of the Registry of Motor Vehicles relative to exhaust and sound
emissions.
(b) No person shall
cause, suffer, allow, or permit the unnecessary operation of the engine of a
motor vehicle while said vehicle is stopped for a foreseeable period of time in
excess of five minutes.
310 CMR 17.11 shall not
apply to:
1. vehicles being serviced,
provided that operation of the engine is essential to the proper repair
thereof, or
2. vehicles engaged in
the delivery or acceptance of goods, wares, or merchandise for which engine
assisted power is necessary and substitute alternate means cannot be made
available, or
3. vehicles engaged
in an operation for which the engine power is necessary for an associated power
need other than movement and substitute alternate power means cannot be made
available provided that such operation does not cause or contribute to a
condition of air pollution.
(c)310 CMR 7.11(1)(b) is subject to the
enforcement provisions specified in
310 CMR
7.52.
(2)
Diesel Trains.
(a) No person owning or operating a diesel
powered locomotive shall cause, suffer, allow, or permit said locomotive to be
operated in a manner such as to cause or contribute to a condition of air
pollution.
(b) No person shall
cause, suffer, allow, or permit the unnecessary foreseeable idling of a diesel
locomotive for a continuous period of time longer than 30 minutes.
310 CMR
7.00 shall not apply to diesel locomotives being
serviced provided that idling is essential to the proper repair of said
locomotive and that such idling does not cause or contribute to a condition of
air pollution.
(c)310 CMR
7.11(2)(a) and 7.11(2)(b) are subject to the enforcement provisions specified
in
310 CMR
7.52.
(3)
Aircraft. No
person owning or operating an airport shall cause, suffer, allow, or permit
routine warmups, testing, or other operation of aircraft while on the ground,
in such a manner as to cause or contribute to a condition of air pollution,
outside of the property lines of the airport, that in the opinion of the
Department are unreasonable and feasibly preventable.
(4)
Marine Vessels.
No person owning, operating, or having control of a seagoing vessel while it is
in the District shall cause, suffer, allow, or permit, aboard said vessel, tube
blowing or soot removal activities that cause or contribute to a condition of
air pollution. 310 CMR 7.11 shall apply only in the Merrimack Valley Air
Pollution Control District, Metropolitan Boston Air Pollution Control District,
and the Southeastern Massachusetts Air Pollution Control District.
