STATE OF NEW YORK
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5597
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 16, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. LEMONDES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
prohibiting unlawful disposal of solid waste on private and state
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 27-0720 to read as follows:
3 § 27-0720. Unlawful disposal of solid waste.
4 1. No person may knowingly dispose of solid waste, beyond initial
5 collection, except at:
6 (a) a disposal facility exempt from the requirements of 6 NYCRR 360.9;
7 or
8 (b) a disposal facility authorized by the department to accept the
9 waste.
10 2. A violation of subdivision one of this section shall be punishable
11 by a fine of not less than five thousand dollars nor more than twenty
12 thousand dollars per day of violation or by imprisonment for not more
13 than thirty days or by both such fine and imprisonment. Such penalties
14 shall be imposed in addition to any penalties imposed under section
15 71-2703 of this article.
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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