Bill Text: NY S01917 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires cities with a population of one million or more to collect discarded recyclable materials at city parks, playgrounds, historic sites and other recreational facilities; requires the posting of signs on facilities without trash receptacles stating that trash must be retained until you reach a trash can; provides state assistance for such programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO CITIES [S01917 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S01917-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1917
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 14, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sen. SERRANO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities
       AN ACT to amend the general city  law,  in  relation  to  requiring  the
         collection  of  recyclable  materials  at parks, playgrounds, historic
         sites and other recreational facilities in cities with a population of
         one million or more; and to amend the environmental conservation  law,
         in relation to providing state assistance therefor to municipalities
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1.  The general city law is amended by adding  a  new  section
    2  20-h to read as follows:
    3    S  20-H. COLLECTION OF RECYCLABLE  MATERIALS; CERTAIN CITIES. 1. EVERY
    4  CITY HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION  OR  MORE  SHALL  ESTABLISH  AND
    5  IMPLEMENT  A PROGRAM FOR THE COLLECTION OF RECYCLABLE MATERIALS THAT ARE
    6  DISCARDED IN CITY PARKS, PLAYGROUNDS, HISTORIC SITES  AND  OTHER  RECRE-
    7  ATIONAL  FACILITIES. SUCH RECYCLABLE MATERIALS SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE
    8  LIMITED TO, METAL, PLASTIC, GLASS AND PAPER. IN EACH  SUCH  PARK,  PLAY-
    9  GROUND,  HISTORIC  SITE  AND OTHER RECREATIONAL FACILITY SUCH CITY SHALL
   10  INSTALL BINS FOR  THE  COLLECTION  OF  RECYCLABLE  MATERIALS.  THE  CITY
   11  DEPARTMENT  OF  SANITATION  SHALL  REGULARLY COLLECT AND PROVIDE FOR THE
   12  RECYCLING OF THE RECYCLABLE MATERIALS COLLECTED.
   13    2. THE CITY SHALL POST SIGNS IN THOSE PORTIONS OF  CITY  PARKS,  PLAY-
   14  GROUNDS,  HISTORIC SITES AND OTHER RECREATIONAL FACILITIES, WHICH DO NOT
   15  HAVE TRASH RECEPTACLES, STATING "PLEASE  TAKE  ANY  TRASH  YOU  GENERATE
   16  WHILE  UPON  THIS  FACILITY WITH YOU FOR DISPOSAL WHEN YOU REACH A TRASH
   17  RECEPTACLE."
   18    3. EVERY CITY HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE WHICH  ESTAB-
   19  LISHES  AND IMPLEMENTS A RECYCLABLES RECOVERY PROGRAM PURSUANT TO SUBDI-
   20  VISION ONE OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE ELIGIBLE TO APPLY FOR STATE  ASSIST-
   21  ANCE  FOR  A  RECYCLING  PROJECT  PURSUANT  TO  TITLE  SEVEN  OF ARTICLE
   22  FIFTY-FOUR OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION LAW.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00237-01-1
       S. 1917                             2
    1    S 2. Subdivision 3 of section 54-0701 of the  environmental  conserva-
    2  tion  law,  as amended by chapter 146 of the laws of 2000, is amended to
    3  read as follows:
    4    3.  "Recyclables  recovery  program"  means  a program undertaken by a
    5  municipality consistent with requirements of section one  hundred  twen-
    6  ty-aa of the general municipal law AND/OR SECTION TWENTY-H OF THE GENER-
    7  AL CITY LAW to provide for the environmentally sound recovery of recycl-
    8  ables, primarily involving the collection, aggregation and processing of
    9  recyclable  materials for their use as raw materials for new products or
   10  for other useful purposes other than for energy recovery, through facil-
   11  ities  planned,  designed  and  constructed  to   ensure   environmental
   12  protection  and  to  maximize  the potential for recyclables recovery. A
   13  recyclables recovery program also shall mean planning,  educational  and
   14  promotional activities to increase public awareness of and participation
   15  in  recycling. Such program shall have been approved by the commissioner
   16  and undertaken consistent with any local  solid  waste  management  plan
   17  pursuant to section 27-0107 of this chapter.
   18    S  3.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
   19  have become a law.