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                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 9, 2019
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 Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the public health law, in relation to authorizing the
   sanitary code to  establish  regulations  for  source  separation  and
   segregation  of  recyclable or reusable materials and adequate facili-
   ties for disposal of solid waste
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (o) of subdivision 5 of section 225 of the public
 health  law,  as  amended  by  chapter  889 of the laws of 1970 and such
 subdivision as renumbered by chapter 626 of the laws of 1971, is amended
 to read as follows:
   (o) require that application be made for a permit to operate a  tempo-
 rary residence as defined in the sanitary code, or to hold or promote by
 advertising  or  otherwise  a  mass gathering which is likely to attract
 five thousand people or more and continue for twenty-four hours or  more
 and  authorize  appropriate  officers or agencies to issue such a permit
 when the applicant is in compliance with the established regulations and
 when it appears that such temporary residence can be  operated  or  such
 gathering  held  without  hazard  to  health and safety; establish regu-
 lations with respect to such gatherings to provide for:  the  furnishing
 of  adequate  undertakings  to  secure full compliance with the sanitary
 code and other applicable law, adequate and  satisfactory  water  supply
 and sewerage facilities, adequate drainage, adequate toilet and lavatory
 facilities,  adequate [refuse storage and disposal] facilities FOR RECY-
 CLING OF CERTAIN MATERIALS CONSISTENT WITH LOCAL ORDINANCE  AS  REQUIRED
 UNDER  SECTION  ONE  HUNDRED TWENTY-AA OF THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW, AND
 ADEQUATE FACILITIES FOR THE DISPOSAL OF SOLID WASTE,  adequate  sleeping
 areas and facilities, wholesome food and sanitary food service, adequate
 medical  facilities,  insect  and  noxious  weed  control, adequate fire
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01935-01-9

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 protection, and such other matters as may be appropriate for security of
 life or health. In his OR HER review of applications for permits for the
 holding or promoting of such a gathering the permit-issuing official may
 require  such  plans, specifications and reports as he OR SHE shall deem
 necessary for a proper review, and in his OR HER review of such applica-
 tions, as well as in carrying out his OR HER other duties and  functions
 in  connection  with  such  a gathering, the permit-issuing official may
 request and shall receive from  all  public  officers,  departments  and
 agencies  of  the  state and its political subdivisions such cooperation
 and assistance as may be necessary and proper;
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
 on or before such effective date.