Bill Text: NY A03269 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires putrescible and non-putrescible waste to be covered by a hard tarp when transported by rail.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-7)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to environmental conservation [A03269 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A03269-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3269 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 29, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BARNWELL -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Environmental Conservation AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to covering putrescible and non-putrescible waste transported by rail The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 27-0712 of the environmental 2 conservation law, as added by chapter 402 of the laws of 1989, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 2. A municipality or any individual, firm or corporation acting on its 5 behalf or any other individual, firm or corporation shall not cause or 6 permit any solid waste to be transported on any vehicle, barge, ship, or 7 scow unless the solid waste on the vehicle, barge, ship, or scow is 8 covered provided, however, that putrescible waste transported by rail 9 shall be covered with sealing hard lids in a manner not inconsistent 10 with Federal Railroad Administration regulations, and non-putrescible 11 waste shipped by rail shall be covered with hard tarping securely 12 fastened over the load, which shall not exceed the height of the side of 13 the rail container, in a manner not inconsistent with Federal Railroad 14 Administration regulations. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 16 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02174-01-9
