STATE OF NEW YORK
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2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 25, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. VANEL -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
prohibiting illegal dumping on public property
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 27-0111 to read as follows:
3 § 27-0111. Illegal dumping on public property.
4 1. For the purpose of this section the term "dump" or "dumping" shall
5 mean to throw, dump, deposit or place, or cause to be thrown, dumped,
6 deposited or placed any refuse, trash, garbage, rubbish, litter or any
7 nauseous or offensive matter in an area not licensed or permitted to
8 receive such refuse, trash, garbage, rubbish, litter or nauseous or
9 offensive matter.
10 2. In addition to any penalties imposed under section 16-119 of the
11 administrative code of the city of New York, no person shall dump or
12 perform an act of dumping upon any sidewalk, street, lot, park, public
13 place, wharf, pier, dock, bulkhead, slip, navigable waterway or any
14 other area publicly owned by the state or a municipality.
15 3. A violation of subdivision two of this section shall be punishable
16 by a fine of five hundred dollars for the first offense and one thousand
17 dollars for a second and subsequent offense. If site clean-up is deemed
18 necessary by the commissioner as a result of a violation of this
19 section, the offender shall also be subject to a fine equal to the sum
20 of any and all expenses incurred in the clean-up or decontamination of
21 such dumping site.
22 4. In addition to any reward set forth in subdivision f of section
23 16-119 of the administrative code of the city of New York, a witness to
24 a violation set forth in subdivision two of this section may submit
25 evidence of such violation to the commissioner. If such evidence leads
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 to a fine for such violation, the commissioner shall offer as a reward
2 to such witness in an amount that is at the discretion of the commis-
3 sioner. Evidence of a violation may include but not be limited to:
4 (a) a video of the dumping; or
5 (b) a picture of a license plate of a vehicle suspected of dumping.
6 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.