New York Laws
Title 8 - State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
17-0827 - Conflicts of Interest.

The commissioner of the department or his designee responsible for
issuance of SPDES permits hereunder, is hereby prohibited from
receiving, or during two years prior to approval of an application for a
permit from having received, a significant portion of his income
directly or indirectly from permit holders or applicants for a permit.
For the purposes of this section (a) "significant portion of his income"
shall mean ten percent of gross personal income for a calendar year,
except that it shall mean fifty percent of gross personal income for a
calendar year if the recipient is over sixty years of age and is
receiving such portion pursuant to retirement, pension, or similar
arrangement; (b) "income" includes retirement benefits, consultant fees,
and stock dividends; and (c) income is not received "directly or
indirectly from permit holders or applicants for a permit" where it is
derived from mutual-fund payments, or from other diversified investments
over which the recipient does not know the identity of the primary
sources of income.

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