Bill Text: NY A00782 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires oil companies to clean up any spillage occurring during oil delivery within 24 hours and imposes a fine of $500 for the first offense with $1000 for each additional offense.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - ordered to third reading cal.58 [A00782 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A00782-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 782 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 9, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Economic Development AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring oil companies to clean up spillage occurring during a delivery The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section 2 309 to read as follows: 3 § 309. Oil delivery spillage. Any spillage occurring in the course of 4 oil delivery shall be cleaned up by the oil delivery company within 5 twenty-four hours. If the spill affects soil the clean up shall include 6 replacing the affected soil with new soil. Violation of this section 7 shall result in a fine of five hundred dollars for the first offense and 8 one thousand dollars for each additional offense, not to exceed ten 9 thousand dollars payable by the oil delivery company. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 11 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04458-01-7
