STATE OF NEW YORK
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6113
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 16, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. BORELLI -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CERETTO
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conserva-
tion
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
municipal solid and regulated medical waste incineration facilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 19-0306 of the environmental conservation law is
2 amended by adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
3 8. a. It shall be unlawful for any municipal solid or regulated
4 medical waste incineration facility, as defined by this section, to
5 burn, incinerate or otherwise defile the remains of any decedent or any
6 other recognizable human body part for the purpose of producing energy.
7 b. "Decedent" means a deceased individual of any age and includes a
8 stillborn infant or a fetus at any stage of development regardless of
9 the cause of death.
10 c. The commissioner in conjunction with the commissioner of the
11 department of health shall have the power to enforce the provisions of
12 this subdivision.
13 d. Any municipal solid or regulated medical waste incineration facili-
14 ty that knowingly violates, disobeys, or disregards any term of this
15 subdivision shall be liable to the people of the state for a civil
16 penalty, to be assessed by the commissioner, not to exceed one thousand
17 dollars for the first violation, two thousand five hundred dollars for
18 the second violation, and five thousand dollars for the third and subse-
19 quent violations.
20 § 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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