Bill Text: NY A04115 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires cities with a population of one million or more to establish and implement a plan for the control of litter; requires the development of signage for areas without trash receptacles reminding individuals to take their trash with them when leaving.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-3)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-11 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [A04115 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A04115-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4115--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 1, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced   by  M.  of  A.  COLTON,  ABBATE,  L. ROSENTHAL,  SEAWRIGHT,
          WILLIAMS, J. RIVERA, THIELE, GOTTFRIED, EPSTEIN, COOK, GLICK, HYNDMAN,
          FALL, FERNANDEZ, CRUZ, DeSTEFANO, SAYEGH, DAVILA, MONTESANO, K. BROWN,
          ANDERSON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. SIMON, SOLAGES -- read once
          and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation --  recom-
          mitted  to  the  Committee on Environmental Conservation in accordance
          with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  general  city law, in relation to requiring the
          cities with a population of one  million  or  more  to  establish  and
          implement a plan for the control of litter

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1.  The general city law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  20-h to read as follows:
     3    §  20-h.  Collection  of recyclable   materials; certain cities. Every
     4  city having a population of one million  or  more  shall  establish  and
     5  implement a plan for the control of litter, that at a minimum includes:
     6    1.  provision for  the  placement  of  an adequate  number  of  recep-
     7  tacles  for  trash and recyclables located in commercial and    business
     8  districts    as determined   by   the   sanitation commissioner  of such
     9  city, and public recreational areas such as parks, playgrounds, historic
    10  sites, zoos and botanical gardens as determined in conjunction with  the
    11  department of sanitation and the parks commissioner of such city; and
    12    2. development of signage for areas without trash receptacles  remind-
    13  ing individuals to take their trash with them when leaving.
    14    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    15  have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03191-02-2