Bill Text: NY S03575 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that the department of environmental conservation shall deny or suspend any permit issued by the department if the applicant or the permittee or any of its directors, officers or senior management have been convicted of a criminal offense involving fraud, bribery, perjury, an offense against public administration as that term is used in article one hundred ninety-five of the penal law, or conspiracy to commit any such offense.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-07 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S03575 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03575-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3575

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 1, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation

        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          denial or suspension of permits due to certain criminal offenses

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

     1    Section 1. Section 70-0115 of the environmental  conservation  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
     3    3.  The  department shall deny or suspend a permit if the applicant or
     4  permittee or any of its directors, officers or  senior  management  have
     5  been  convicted of a criminal offense involving fraud, bribery, perjury,
     6  an offense against public administration as that term is used in article
     7  one hundred ninety-five of the penal law, or conspiracy  to  commit  any
     8  such  offense,  and, after a hearing or an opportunity for the applicant
     9  or permittee to be heard, the department makes a  written  determination
    10  that  such  criminal offense is related to, involves, or arises from the
    11  issuance of such permit, or any previous permit issued to the  applicant
    12  or  the  permittee;  provided, however, that the department shall not be
    13  required to deny or suspend such permit  if  the  department  determines
    14  such  permit to be in the public interest or for public health and safe-
    15  ty.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




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