Bill Text: NY S07189 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the reduction of mercury in mercury-added lamps.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-04-17 - signed chap.30 [S07189 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S07189-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7189

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 10, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation  to  the
          reduction of mercury in mercury-added lamps

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section  71-2724  of  the  environ-
     2  mental  conservation  law,  as amended by a chapter of the laws of 2019,
     3  amending the environmental conservation law relating to the reduction of
     4  mercury in mercury-added lamps, as proposed in legislative bills numbers
     5  S. 2139-B and A. 2501-A, are amended to read as follows:
     6    1. Any person who knowingly or intentionally violates any provision of
     7  or fails to perform any duty pursuant to  title  twenty-one  of  article
     8  twenty-seven  of this chapter, except subdivision one of section 27-2105
     9  [and subdivision eleven of section 27-2107] of this chapter, shall  upon
    10  the  first finding of such a violation be liable for a civil penalty not
    11  to exceed one hundred dollars. Any  person  convicted  of  a  second  or
    12  subsequent  violation  shall be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed
    13  five hundred dollars for each violation.
    14    2. Any person who knowingly or  intentionally  violates  or  fails  to
    15  perform  any  duty  imposed  by  subdivision  one of section 27-2105 [or
    16  subdivision eleven of section 27-2107] of this chapter  shall  upon  the
    17  first finding of such a violation be provided with educational materials
    18  describing  the  requirements  for  mercury  disposal and the effects of
    19  improper mercury disposal, and be warned that  future  violations  shall
    20  result  in  the  imposition  of a fine. Any person convicted of a second
    21  violation shall be liable for  a  civil  penalty  not  to  exceed  fifty
    22  dollars. Any person convicted of a third violation shall be liable for a
    23  civil  penalty  not to exceed seventy-five dollars. Any person convicted
    24  of a fourth or subsequent violation shall be liable for a civil  penalty
    25  not to exceed one hundred dollars for each violation.
    26    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    27  manner as a chapter of the laws  of  2019,  amending  the  environmental
    28  conservation  law  relating to the reduction of mercury in mercury-added
    29  lamps, as proposed in legislative  bills  numbers  S.    2139-B  and  A.
    30  2501-A, takes effect.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07150-06-0