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Assembly Bill A1457

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Provides that the failure to report a release of hazardous substances is a class A misdemeanor

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2019-A1457 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2722
Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Add §71-3705, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A5654, S3596
2011-2012: A1719, S521
2013-2014: A3866, S3425
2015-2016: A598, S2555
2017-2018: A3222, S4161
2021-2022: S1375
2023-2024: S2128
2025-2026: S2137

2019-A1457 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that the failure to report a release of hazardous substances is a class A misdemeanor and any such subsequent violation shall be a class E felony.

2019-A1457 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1457
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 15, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
   notification of the release of hazardous substances
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by  adding  a
 new section 71-3705 to read as follows:
 § 71-3705. FAILURE TO REPORT RELEASE OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES.
   ANY  PERSON  WHO  VIOLATES  ANY  OF THE PROVISIONS OF, OR WHO FAILS TO
 PERFORM ANY DUTY IMPOSED BY SECTION 37-0107 OF  THIS  CHAPTER,  AND  WHO
 FAILS  TO NOTIFY THE DEPARTMENT OF A RELEASE OF A REPORTABLE QUANTITY OF
 A HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE THAT IS HAZARDOUS OR ACUTELY HAZARDOUS  TO  PUBLIC
 HEALTH,  SAFETY  OR THE ENVIRONMENT SHALL BE GUILTY OF FAILURE TO REPORT
 RELEASE OF A HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE. FAILURE TO REPORT RELEASE OF A HAZARD-
 OUS SUBSTANCE SHALL BE A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT IF
 A DEFENDANT HAS  PREVIOUSLY  BEEN  CONVICTED  OF  A  VIOLATION  OF  THIS
 SECTION, SUCH SUBSEQUENT VIOLATION SHALL BE A CLASS E FELONY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of December next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02578-01-9

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