Bill Text: NY A04624 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides for source separation and disposal of recyclable materials and requires municipalities to adopt local laws providing therefor; prohibits transporters from commingling recyclables with other materials; prohibits incinerators and landfills from accepting recyclables.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 28-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-26 - advanced to third reading cal.766 [A04624 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A04624-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4624--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 5, 2015
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        Introduced by M. of A. COLTON, ENGLEBRIGHT, SCHIMEL, LUPARDO, ROSENTHAL,
          ABINANTI,  KEARNS,  WEPRIN,  MOSLEY,  FAHY,  LINARES,  STIRPE,  BLAKE,
          ARROYO, SEAWRIGHT, OTIS, GOTTFRIED -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of  A.
          COOK, DINOWITZ, FARRELL, GALEF, GLICK, ORTIZ, PERRY, RIVERA, ROBINSON,
          SIMON,  WALKER  -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environ-
          mental Conservation -- recommitted to the Committee  on  Environmental
          Conservation  in  accordance  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- reported
          and referred to the Committee on Codes -- committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee
        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law  and  the  general
          municipal  law,  in  relation  to  disposal  and  source separation of
          recyclable materials
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a
     2  new section 27-0709 to read as follows:
     3  § 27-0709. Disposal of source separated recyclables.
     4    1. Definitions. For the purposes of this section:
     5    a. "Incinerator" shall have the same meaning as  provided  in  section
     6  72-0401 of this chapter.
     7    b.  "Landfill"  shall  have  the  same  meaning as provided in section
     8  72-0401 of this chapter.
     9    c. "Local recycling law" means a local law or ordinance adopted pursu-
    10  ant to the provisions of section one hundred twenty-aa  of  the  general
    11  municipal law.
    12    d.  "Recyclable  materials" means recyclable components of solid waste
    13  which have been separated from other solid  waste  as  required  by  the
    14  local  recycling  law adopted pursuant to subdivision two of section one
    15  hundred twenty-aa of the general municipal law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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