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Title 1 - General Provisions and Public Policy
17-0101 - Declaration of Policy. - It is declared to be the public policy of the...
17-0103 - Statement of Purpose. - It is the purpose of this article to safeguard the...
17-0105 - Definitions Applicable to Portions of This Article. - When used in titles 1 to 11, inclusive, and titles...
Title 3 - Jurisdiction of the Department; Authority; Powers and Duties
17-0301 - Classification of Waters and Adoption of Standards. - (1) Sources of water supply for drinking, culinary or food...
17-0303 - General Powers and Duties Applicable to Portions of This Article. - article. 1. The provisions of this section shall apply only...
17-0305 - Establishment of a Program to Monitor Water Quality by Private Citizens Under the Direction of the Department. - private citizens under the direction of the department. 1. The...
Title 5 - Prohibitions
17-0501 - General Prohibition Against Pollution. - 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, directly or...
17-0503 - Prohibition Against Pollution of Waters of Marine District. - 1. Sewage, industrial waste or other wastes, or any substance...
17-0505 - Prohibition Against Certain Acts Without Permit. - The making or use of an outlet or point source...
17-0507 - Prohibition Against Modification of Wastes Discharged Through Existing Outlet or Point Source Without Permit. - existing outlet or point source without permit. Increasing or altering...
17-0509 - Minimum Treatment Required. - 1. As used in this section, the term "effective secondary...
17-0511 - Restrictions on Discharge of Sewage, Industrial Waste or Other Wastes. - other wastes. The use of existing or new outlets or...
Title 7 - Permits and Certificates
17-0701 - Permit for Outlet, Point Source and for Disposal System Required. - required. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, until...
17-0703 - Issuance, Denial, and Revocation of Permits. - 1. The permit provided in section 17-0701 and title 8...
17-0705 - Certificates of Compliance for Purposes of the Real Property Tax Law. - Tax Law. 1. For the purposes of section 477 of...
17-0707 - Certificates of Compliance for Purposes of the Tax Law. - 1. For the purposes of sections 208, 210, 606 and...
Title 8 - State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
17-0801 - Purpose. - To create a state pollutant discharge elimination system (SPDES) to...
17-0803 - Spdes Permits; Application. - Except as provided by subdivision five of section 17-0701 of...
17-0804 - Rules and Regulations. - The rules and regulations adopted by the department to implement...
17-0805 - Notice and Public Participation; Access to Information. - (a) any public comments, testimony or other documentation concerning a...
17-0807 - Prohibited Discharges. - The following discharges into the waters of the state are...
17-0808 - Municipal and Industrial Stormwater Discharges. - 1. Prior to October first, nineteen hundred ninety-two, no permit...
17-0809 - Effluent Limitations. - 1. SPDES permits issued pursuant hereto shall contain applicable effluent...
17-0810 - Stormwater Management Design Manual Modification. - On or before one year following the effective date of...
17-0811 - Application of Effluent Standards and Limitations; Water Quality Standards; Other Requirements. - quality standards; other requirements. SPDES permits issued pursuant hereto shall...
17-0813 - Compliance Schedules. - SPDES permits issued pursuant hereto may contain compliance schedules. Such...
17-0815 - Spdes Permits; Additional Terms and Conditions. - SPDES permits shall include the following provisions, terms, requirements and...
17-0815-A - Discharge Point Signs. - (b) The permit holder shall provide for public review at...
17-0816 - Coordination With Aem Program. - To the extent practical and consistent with the purposes of...
17-0817 - Spdes Permits; Duration and Reissuance. - 1. SPDES permits issued in lieu of national pollutant discharge...
17-0819 - Applications, Reports, Notices; Provisions to Insure Verity. - All applications, reports, notices or notifications required or authorized to...
17-0821 - Fees. - The department is hereby authorized to establish a schedule of...
17-0823 - Power Plant Siting. - In the case of a major steam electric generating facility,...
17-0825 - Discharges of Industrial Waste to Publicly Owned Treatment Works. - works. Persons discharging industrial waste to a publicly owned treatment...
17-0826 - Notification of Discharges Affecting Groundwaters. - Whenever a provision of this title is violated by a...
17-0826-A - Mandatory Sewage Release Reporting and Notification by Publicly Owned Treatment Works and Operators of Publicly Owned Sewer Systems. - (a) the volume and treated state of the discharge; (b)...
17-0827 - Conflicts of Interest. - The commissioner of the department or his designee responsible for...
17-0828 - Discharges Affecting Groundwaters. - In addition to any other requirements imposed by this title,...
17-0829 - Inspection and Entry. - (a) To carry out the purposes of this Act or...
17-0831 - Environmental Monitors for Tankers. - 1. At the discretion of the commissioner, a tanker withdrawing...
Title 9 - Procedure
17-0901 - Hearings. - 1. Public hearings shall be conducted by the commissioner, or...
17-0903 - Notices; Service of Process. - 1. Notices of all public hearings held pursuant to this...
17-0905 - Proceedings Before the Commissioner. - 1. The commissioner may, on his own motion, investigate or...
17-0907 - Hearings for Persons Aggrieved. - 1. This section shall apply only to titles 1 to...
17-0909 - Review by Courts. - 1. The provisions of this section shall apply only to...
Title 10 - Control of the Bulk Storage of Petroleum
17-1001 - Legislative Findings and Declarations. - The legislature finds and declares that the lands and waters...
17-1003 - Definitions. - (1) facilities licensed under article twelve of the navigation law;...
17-1005 - Leak Detection. - 1. a. The department shall promulgate rules and regulations to...
17-1007 - Corrective Actions. - (i) The department shall attach a tag to the tank...
17-1009 - Registration. - 1. The department shall consult with the state petroleum bulk...
17-1011 - Access to Records and Facilities. - 1. Every owner or operator shall, upon reasonable notice of...
17-1013 - State Petroleum Bulk Storage Advisory Council. - 1. There is hereby created within the department the "state...
17-1015 - State Petroleum Bulk Storage Standards. - 1. The department shall, pursuant to section 17-0303 of this...
17-1016 - Reduction of Air Pollution From Petroleum Bulk Storage Facilities. - facilities. 1. For purposes of this section, the terms below...
17-1017 - Preemption of Local Law. - 1. Except as provided in subdivision two of this section,...
Title 11 - Scope and Construction; Other Remedies
17-1101 - Existing Rights and Remedies Preserved. - It is the purpose of titles 1 to 11, inclusive,...
17-1103 - Persons Other Than the State Acquire No Actionable Rights. - The bases for proceedings or actions resulting from the violations...
17-1105 - Conflicting Laws. - Titles 1 to 11, inclusive, and title 19 of this...
17-1107 - Other Environmental Conservation Laws to Remain in Effect. - Nothing contained in titles 1 to 11, inclusive, and title...
Title 13 - Approval of Marine Toilet Pollution Control Devices and Establishing Effluent Standards Therefor
17-1301 - Approval of Marine Toilet Pollution Control Devices and Establishing Effluent Standards Therefor. - establishing effluent standards therefor. The department shall have all the...
Title 14 - Nonpoint Source Water Pollution Control
17-1401 - Purpose. - It is the purpose of this title to safeguard the...
17-1403 - Definitions. - As used in this title: 1. "Best management practices" means...
17-1405 - Inventory. - 1. Within eighteen months of the effective date of this...
17-1407 - Priority Nonpoint Source Pollution. - From the inventory developed pursuant to section 17-1405 of this...
17-1409 - State Assistance for Non-Agricultural Nonpoint Source Abatement and Control Projects. - abatement and control projects. 1. Subject to the availability of...
17-1411 - Regulations. - The commissioner may promulgate regulations necessary to effectuate the purposes...
Title 15 - Realty Subdivisions: Sewerage Service
17-1501 - Definitions. - 1. As used in sections 17-1501 to 17-1505, inclusive, and...
17-1503 - Local Regulations. - 1. Any city or county which has established or establishes...
17-1505 - Plans Required to Be Filed and Approved. - 1. No subdivision or portion thereof shall be sold, offered...
17-1507 - Filing Fees to Accompany Plans. - 1. At the time of submitting a plan for approval...
17-1509 - Cooperation With the Department of Health. - Notwithstanding any other provision of this title the Commissioner of...
17-1511 - Duty of County Clerk or Register in Respect to Filing of Plans and Map. - plans and map. The county clerk or register shall not...
17-1513 - Remedy for Purchaser of One Parcel of Unapproved Realty Subdivision. - subdivision. 1. The owner of a parcel of land acquired...
17-1515 - Regulation by Commissioner. - The commissioner may from time to time establish by rule...
Title 17 - Discharge of Sewage Into Waters
17-1701 - Definition of Sewage; Discharge of Sewage and Other Matter Into Certain Waters Prohibited. - into certain waters prohibited. 1. For the purposes of this...
17-1703 - Contamination of Salt Wells. - It shall be unlawful for any person to wilfully place,...
17-1704 - Discharge of Sewage and Other Offensive Matter From New or Renovated Wastewater Disposal Systems to the Surface Waters of the Owasco Lake Watershed Ex - renovated wastewater disposal systems to the surface waters of the...
17-1705 - Discharge of Sewage Into Wallkill Creek Prohibited. - No person or corporation shall permit the discharge or escape...
17-1707 - Discharge of Sewage Into the Susquehanna Near Binghamton Prohibited. - prohibited. 1. No person or corporation shall cause to fall,...
17-1709 - Discharge of Sewage and Other Offensive Matter Into Lake George and Skaneateles Lake Prohibited. - (a) Subsurface sewage disposal facilities with a design capacity of...
17-1710 - Deposit of Garbage or Other Refuse on or in Waters of the Owasco Lake Watershed Extending From the City Dam on the Outlet to the Existing Moravia Vill - Owasco lake watershed extending from the city dam on the...
17-1711 - Deposit of Garbage or Other Refuse on or in Waters of Lake George and Skaneateles Lake and Their Tributaries Prohibited. - George and Skaneateles lake and their tributaries prohibited. No person...
17-1713 - Discharge of Sewage and Other Offensive Matter Into Brant Lake, Loon Lake, Friends Lake and Schroon Lake Prohibited. - Lake, Loon Lake, Friends Lake and Schroon Lake prohibited. 1....
17-1715 - Discharge of Sewage and Other Offensive Matter Into Oneida Lake Prohibited. - Lake prohibited. 1. No person or corporation shall cause or...
17-1717 - Order to Discontinue Pollution of Waters. - 1. Whenever the commissioner shall determine upon investigation that sewage...
17-1719 - Actions by Municipalities to Prevent Discharge of Sewage Into Waters. - into waters. 1. Any incorporated city or village in the...
17-1721 - Reports of Municipal Authorities to Local Boards of Health. - 1. The report of the public authorities having by law...
17-1723 - Reports of Proprietors of Industrial Establishments. - 1. The report of the proprietor of every shop, factory,...
17-1725 - Permission to Discharge Sewage. - 1. Upon application duly made to the commissioner by the...
17-1727 - Permission to Discharge Refuse or Waste Matter From Industrial Establishments. - industrial establishments. 1. Upon application duly made to the commissioner...
17-1729 - Permits for Conduit or Discharge Pipes. - 1. Before any conduit or discharge pipe, or other means...
17-1731 - Revocation or Modification of Permits. - 1. Every permit for the discharge of sewage from a...
17-1733 - Record of Permits; Inspection of Local Boards of Health. - 1. Each local board of health shall preserve in its...
17-1735 - Violations; Service of Notice; Actions. - 1. The board of health of each municipality shall promptly...
17-1737 - Legal Construction and Limitations; Riparian Owners. - Nothing in titles 15 and 17 of this article shall...
17-1739 - Repeal of Provisions. - The provisions of sections 17-1701, 17-1705, 17-1707, 17-1713 to 17-1737,...
17-1741 - Sewerage; Construction; Villages. - 1. Whenever any local board of health in any incorporated...
17-1743 - Reporting of Spills of Liquids Stored in Bulk. - Any person who is the owner of or in actual...
17-1745 - Sewage From Vessels. - (b) "Marine holding tank" means any container aboard any vessel...
Title 19 - State Aid: Collection, Treatment, and Disposal of Sewage
17-1901 - Comprehensive Studies and Reports: Definitions; State Aid; Powers and Duties of the Commissioner; Powers of the Municipalities. - powers and duties of the commissioner; powers of the municipalities....
17-1903 - Contracts for Construction of Sewage Treatment Works. - (1) An amount equal to thirty per cent of the...
17-1905 - Operation and Maintenance of Sewage Treatment Works. - 1. As used in this section: a. "Operation and maintenance"...
17-1907 - Contracts for Construction of Sewer Systems. - (1) It is in accord with applicable comprehensive studies and...
17-1909 - Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund Agreements. - (i) for which all required federal and state permits have...
Title 21 - Nutrient Runoff
17-2101 - Definitions. - As used in this title: 1. "Compost" means the biologically...
17-2103 - Sale or Use of Phosphorus Fertilizer Restricted. - (a) A soil test indicates that additional phosphorus is needed...
17-2105 - Local Fertilizer Regulation. - A local government may enact more stringent standards for the...