S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4234
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 31, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Local Governments
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to requiring the
establishment of electronics and hazardous waste recycling programs in
towns within Nassau and Suffolk counties; and providing for the repeal
of such provisions upon expiration thereof
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new
section 120-dd to read as follows:
§ 120-DD. ELECTRONICS AND HAZARDOUS WASTE RECYCLING PILOT PROGRAMS. 1.
EACH MUNICIPALITY WITHIN NASSAU AND SUFFOLK COUNTIES SHALL ADOPT A LOCAL
LAW OR ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING AN ELECTRONICS AND HAZARDOUS WASTE RECYCL-
ING PILOT PROGRAM WITHIN SUCH MUNICIPALITY WITHIN ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY
DAYS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SECTION. SUCH PILOT PROGRAMS SHALL
RUN FOR NO LESS THAN ONE YEAR. SUCH PILOT PROGRAMS SHALL INCLUDE, BUT
NOT BE LIMITED TO:
(A) THE RECYCLING OF ELECTRONICS AND HAZARDOUS WASTE; AND
(B) A LOCATION FOR RESIDENTS TO DROP OFF ELECTRONICS AND HAZARDOUS
WASTE FOR RECYCLING WHICH IS OPEN TO RESIDENTS.
2. WITHIN TWO YEARS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SECTION, EACH MUNI-
CIPALITY WHICH ESTABLISHED A PILOT PROGRAM UNDER THIS SECTION SHALL
SUBMIT A REPORT TO THE GOVERNOR, THE TEMPORARY PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE,
THE SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY, THE MINORITY LEADER OF THE SENATE, AND THE
MINORITY LEADER OF THE ASSEMBLY WHICH SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED
TO, THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE PILOT PROGRAM, HOW MUCH MATERIAL WAS
COLLECTED AND IF IT WAS TREATED, DISPOSED OF, OR RECYCLED, AND THE
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS IN THE PILOT PROGRAM COMPARED TO THE NUMBER OF
RESIDENTS WITHIN THE MUNICIPALITY.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
deemed repealed three years after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04739-01-5
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