310 CMR, § 7.11

Current through Register 1533, October 25, 2024
Section 7.11 - U Transportation Media
(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.

310 CMR, § 7.11

Amended by Mass Register Issue 1363, eff. 3/9/2018.