Bill Text: NY A04872 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 4872

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides that upon notification of a petroleum discharge, the department of environmental conservation shall notify the municipal chief executive and landowners or tenants adjacent to or neighboring the site of the discharge whose property or drinking water supply may be potentially impacted by such discharge.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to environmental conservation [A04872 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04872-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4872

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 24, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. KELLES -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COLTON
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental  Conserva-
          tion

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  navigation  law, in relation to notification of
          petroleum discharge

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 175 of the navigation law, as amended by chapter 35
     2  of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows:
     3    §  175.  Notification  by  persons  responsible  for discharge. 1. Any
     4  person responsible for causing a discharge shall immediately notify  the
     5  department  pursuant to rules and regulations established by the depart-
     6  ment, but in no case later than two hours after the  discharge.  Failure
     7  to  so  notify  shall  make  persons liable to the penalty provisions of
     8  section [192] one hundred ninety-two of this article.    Notwithstanding
     9  the  provisions  of  any  other law, such notification to the department
    10  shall be deemed to fulfill the notification requirements  of  any  other
    11  state or local law.
    12    2.  Upon  notification  of a discharge, pursuant to subdivision one of
    13  this section, the department  shall  immediately  notify  the  municipal
    14  chief  executive,  all landowners or tenants adjacent to the site of the
    15  discharge and/or any nearby landowners  or  tenants  whose  property  or
    16  drinking water supply may be potentially impacted by such discharge.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09660-01-3