Bill Text: NY A04624 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
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
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4624--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 5, 2015 ___________ 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. LBD01405-03-6