Bill Text: NY A10249 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the discharge of bilge water into waters of the state from any vessel, watercraft, marina or mooring.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-13 - referred to environmental conservation [A10249 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A10249-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10249

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 13, 2022
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        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. K. Brown) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation

        AN  ACT  to  amend the environmental conservation law and the navigation
          law, in relation to prohibiting the  discharge  of  bilge  water  into
          waters of the state

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

     1    Section 1. Section 17-0105 of the environmental  conservation  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new subdivision 24 to read as follows:
     3    24.  "Oily  bilge  water" or "bilge water" means the mixture of water,
     4  oily fluids, lubricants and grease, cleaning  fluids  and  other  wastes
     5  that  accumulate in the lowest part of a vessel from a variety of sourc-
     6  es, including engines and other parts of the propulsion system,  piping,
     7  and  other  mechanical  and  operational  sources  found  throughout the
     8  machinery spaces of a vessel.
     9    § 2. The environmental conservation law is amended  by  adding  a  new
    10  section 17-0508 to read as follows:
    11  § 17-0508. Prohibition against discharge of bilge water.
    12    1.  It  shall  be  unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly, to
    13  place, throw, deposit, or otherwise discharge into the  waters  of  this
    14  state  any  bilge water as defined in subdivision twenty-four of section
    15  17-0105 of title one of this article from any vessel, watercraft, marina
    16  or mooring.
    17    2. For the purposes of this section "waters of the state" means all of
    18  the waterways, or bodies of water located within New York state or  that
    19  part of any body of water which is adjacent to New York state over which
    20  the  state has territorial jurisdictions on which watercraft may be used
    21  or operated.
    22    3. Severability. The provisions of this section shall be severable and
    23  if any portion thereof or the applicability thereof  to  any  person  or
    24  circumstance  is  held  invalid,  the  remainder of this section and the
    25  application thereof shall not be affected thereby.
    26    § 3. Subdivision 1 of section 33-c of the navigation law is amended by
    27  adding a new paragraph (k) to read as follows:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13983-01-1
        A. 10249                            2

     1    (k) The term "oily bilge water" or "bilge water" means the mixture  of
     2  water,  oily  fluids,  lubricants  and grease, cleaning fluids and other
     3  wastes that accumulate in the lowest part of a vessel from a variety  of
     4  sources,  including  engines  and  other parts of the propulsion system,
     5  piping,  and  other  mechanical and operational sources found throughout
     6  the machinery spaces of a vessel.
     7    § 4. Subdivision 2 of section 33-c of the navigation law is amended by
     8  adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
     9    (c) No person, whether engaged in commerce or otherwise, shall  place,
    10  throw,  deposit, or discharge, or cause to be placed, thrown, deposited,
    11  or discharged any bilge water into the waters of this  state,  from  any
    12  vessel, watercraft, marina or mooring.
    13    § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.