Bill Text: NY A05597 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits unlawful disposal of solid waste on private and state property.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to environmental conservation [A05597 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05597-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5597

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 16, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. LEMONDES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Environmental Conservation

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          prohibiting unlawful disposal of solid  waste  on  private  and  state
          property

          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 27-0720 to read as follows:
     3  § 27-0720. Unlawful disposal of solid waste.
     4    1.  No  person  may  knowingly  dispose of solid waste, beyond initial
     5  collection, except at:
     6    (a) a disposal facility exempt from the requirements of 6 NYCRR 360.9;
     7  or
     8    (b) a disposal facility authorized by the  department  to  accept  the
     9  waste.
    10    2.  A violation of subdivision one of this section shall be punishable
    11  by a fine of not less than five thousand dollars nor  more  than  twenty
    12  thousand  dollars  per  day of violation or by imprisonment for not more
    13  than thirty days or by both such fine and imprisonment.  Such  penalties
    14  shall  be  imposed  in  addition  to any penalties imposed under section
    15  71-2703 of this article.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01395-01-3