Assembly Bill A8627

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires certain waste transported by rail to be covered with hard tarping

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-A8627 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6098
Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง27-0712, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S3676
2019-2020: S2490
2021-2022: S4203
2023-2024: S2022

2015-A8627 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires putrescible and non-putrescible waste to be covered by a hard tarp when transported by rail.

2015-A8627 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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    S. 6098                                                  A. 8627

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                      S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y

                            December 23, 2015
                               ___________

IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered print-
  ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

IN  ASSEMBLY  -- Introduced by M. of A. MARKEY -- read once and referred
  to the Committee on Environmental Conservation

AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
  covering putrescible and non-putrescible waste transported by rail

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 2  of  section  27-0712  of  the  environmental
conservation  law,  as  added  by  chapter  402  of the laws of 1989, is
amended to read as follows:
  2. A municipality or any individual, firm or corporation acting on its
behalf or any other individual, firm or corporation shall not  cause  or
permit any solid waste to be transported on any vehicle, barge, ship, or
scow  unless  the  solid  waste  on the vehicle, barge, ship, or scow is
covered PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT PUTRESCIBLE WASTE  TRANSPORTED  BY  RAIL
SHALL  BE  COVERED  WITH  SEALING HARD LIDS IN A MANNER NOT INCONSISTENT
WITH FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION  REGULATIONS,  AND  NON-PUTRESCIBLE
WASTE  SHIPPED  BY  RAIL  SHALL  BE  COVERED  WITH HARD TARPING SECURELY
FASTENED OVER THE LOAD, WHICH SHALL NOT EXCEED THE HEIGHT OF THE SIDE OF
THE RAIL CONTAINER, IN A MANNER NOT INCONSISTENT WITH  FEDERAL  RAILROAD
ADMINISTRATION REGULATIONS.
  S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04650-01-5

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