New York Laws
Title 44 - Enforcement of Title 15 of Article 27
71-4407 - Unlawful Release of Regulated Medical Waste in the Second Degree.

degree.

A person is guilty of unlawful release of regulated medical waste in
the second degree when such person:

1. Knowingly or recklessly engages in conduct which causes the release
to the environment of regulated medical waste which includes any
quantity of regulated medical waste which is capable at the time of
transport, or at any time thereafter, of causing disease, or physical
injury; or

2. Knowingly or recklessly engages in conduct constituting a single
criminal transaction which causes the release to the environment of more
than five hundred gallons or five thousand pounds, whichever is less, of
regulated medical waste.

Unlawful release of regulated medical waste in the second degree is a
class E felony.