STATE OF NEW YORK
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2130
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 15, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI, MILLER, COLTON, MARKEY -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
covering putrescible and non-putrescible waste transported by rail
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 27-0712 of the environmental
2 conservation law, as added by chapter 402 of the laws of 1989, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 2. A municipality or any individual, firm or corporation acting on its
5 behalf or any other individual, firm or corporation shall not cause or
6 permit any solid waste to be transported on any vehicle, barge, ship, or
7 scow unless the solid waste on the vehicle, barge, ship, or scow is
8 covered provided, however, that putrescible waste transported by rail
9 shall be covered with sealing hard lids in a manner not inconsistent
10 with Federal Railroad Administration regulations, and non-putrescible
11 waste shipped by rail shall be covered with hard tarping securely
12 fastened over the load, which shall not exceed the height of the side of
13 the rail container, in a manner not inconsistent with Federal Railroad
14 Administration regulations.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
16 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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