Bill Text: NY A04677 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | 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 ________________________________________________________________________ 4677 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 22, 2023 ___________ 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