New York Laws
Title 17 - Discharge of Sewage Into Waters
17-1721 - Reports of Municipal Authorities to Local Boards of Health.

1. The report of the public authorities having by law charge of the
sewer system of every municipality in the state, from which sewer system
sewage was being discharged into any of the waters of the state on May
7, 1903, transmitted by the board of health of the municipality within
which any sewer outlet of the said sewer system is located to the
commissioner and filed by him in his office, shall constitute the
evidence of exemption from the prohibition of section 17-1701.

2. No sewer system shall be exempt from the prohibition of said
section against the discharge of sewage into the waters of the state for
which a satisfactory report shall not have been filed in the office of
the commissioner in accordance with chapter 468 of the laws of 1903.

* NB Expired September 1, 1973

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