Bill Text: NY A04677 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 4677

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to the clean-up of petroleum discharges occurring during the delivery of home heating oil to a residence; provides any petroleum discharges shall be immediately cleaned up by the oil delivery company; if such spill affects soil then clean-up shall include replacing affected soil with new soil within 24 hours; provides fines for violation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to environmental conservation [A04677 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04677-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4677

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 22, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Environmental Conservation

        AN ACT to amend the navigation  law,  in  relation  to  the  removal  of
          prohibited discharges

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

     1    Section 1. Section 176 of the navigation law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
     3    9.  Any  discharge of petroleum occurring at a residence in the course
     4  of the delivery of home heating oil to such  residence  for  residential
     5  use  shall be immediately cleaned up by the oil delivery company. If the
     6  spill affects soil the clean up shall  include  replacing  the  affected
     7  soil  with  new soil, which shall be completed within twenty-four hours.
     8  Violation of this section shall result in a fine of five hundred dollars
     9  for the first offense and  one  thousand  dollars  for  each  additional
    10  offense,  not to exceed ten thousand dollars payable by the oil delivery
    11  company. Such fine shall be in addition to any other penalty as provided
    12  for in this article. Nothing contained  in  this  subdivision  shall  be
    13  interpreted to diminish liability established in this article.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09474-01-3