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Assembly Bill A8661

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Permits municipalities to grant exceptions to air pollution control requirements

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2011-A8661 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง19-0709, En Con L
Versions Introduced in 2013-2014 Legislative Session:
A3257

2011-A8661 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits municipalities to grant exceptions to air pollution control requirements.

2011-A8661 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  8661

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            October 14, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. RABBITT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Environmental Conservation

AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
  permitting municipalities to grant exceptions to air pollution control
  requirements

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 19-0709 of the environmental  conservation  law  is
amended to read as follows:
S 19-0709. Local laws, ordinances and regulations.
  1.  Any local laws, ordinances or regulations of any governing body of
a county, city, town or village which are  not  inconsistent  with  this
article  or with any code, rule or regulation which shall be promulgated
pursuant to this article shall not be superseded by it, and  nothing  in
this  article  or in any code, rule or regulation which shall be promul-
gated pursuant to this article shall preclude the right of any governing
body of a county, city, town or village to adopt local laws,  ordinances
or  regulations which are not inconsistent with this article or with any
code, rule or regulation which shall be  promulgated  pursuant  to  this
article  provided,  however, that the exercise of such right by a county
shall relate only to the area thereof outside any city, village or  area
of  any town outside the village or villages therein during such time as
such city, village or town has local  laws,  ordinances  or  regulations
consistent  with this article or with any code, rule or regulation which
shall be promulgated pursuant to this article. [Any] EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE
PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION, ANY local laws,  ordinances
or  regulations  of a county, city, town or village which comply with at
least the minimum applicable requirements set forth in any code, rule or
regulation promulgated pursuant to this article shall be deemed consist-
ent with this article or with any such code, rule or regulation.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD13499-01-1

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