STATE OF NEW YORK
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4046
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 31, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, KAVANAGH, MAY -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environ-
mental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
prohibiting the use of fuel oil, grade number four in any building or
facility in the state
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 19-0330 to read as follows:
3 § 19-0330. Certain fuel oil; prohibited.
4 1. On and after July first, two thousand thirty, no fuel oil, grade
5 number four, as classified by American Society for Testing Materials
6 Standard D396-15c, shall be used in any building or facility in the
7 state.
8 2. Nothing in this section shall prevent a municipality from adopting
9 a law, code, ordinance or regulation which is more stringent than the
10 requirements of this section.
11 § 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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