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Assembly Bill A5502

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Requires the placement of one recycling receptacle for drink containers for every four waste receptacles on state owned property

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2013-A5502 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S872
Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §27-0717, En Con L; amd §165, St Fin L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S1108
2011-2012: S2643

2013-A5502 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the placement of one recycling receptacle for drink containers for every four waste receptacles on state owned property.

2013-A5502 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  5502

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 28, 2013
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law and the state finance
  law, in relation to the collection of drink containers  for  recycling
  on state property

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

  Section 1.   Subdivision 1 of section  27-0717  of  the  environmental
conservation  law  is  amended  by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as
follows:
  (E) COOPERATE WITH AND ADVISE OTHER  STATE  AGENCIES  IN  IMPLEMENTING
PARAGRAPH  F  OF  SUBDIVISION THREE OF SECTION ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-FIVE OF
THE STATE FINANCE LAW  TO  ENSURE  COMPLIANCE  AND  FULL  COLLECTION  OF
RECYCLABLE MATERIAL ON STATE PROPERTY.
  S  2. Paragraph f of subdivision 3 of section 165 of the state finance
law, as amended by chapter 95 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as
follows:
  f. Each state agency shall devise and institute a  program  to  source
separate  all  other waste generated within state office facilities that
is not covered by paragraph e of this subdivision.  Such  program  shall
include  marketing arrangements and appropriate procedures to ensure the
maximum recovery of such waste. THE STATE SHALL ENSURE  FOR  EVERY  FOUR
WASTE  RECEPTACLES  THE  AVAILABILITY OF AT LEAST ONE RECEPTACLE FOR THE
COLLECTION OF DRINK CONTAINERS TO PROMOTE RECYCLING AND  MAXIMUM  RECOV-
ERY.  THE  TERM "DRINK CONTAINER" SHALL MEAN AN INDIVIDUAL GLASS, METAL,
STEEL, OR PLASTIC BOTTLE, CAN OR JAR  USED  FOR  CONTAINING  UP  TO  ONE
GALLON OF A DRINK.
  S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
it shall have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04107-01-3

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