Assembly Bill A1949

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires that used oil filters be source-separated and recycled

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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-A1949 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง23-2301, 23-2305, 23-2307, 23-2308 & 27-0305, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A5757
2011-2012: A2541
2013-2014: A573
2017-2018: A1835
2019-2020: A4613
2021-2022: A3060
2023-2024: A3518

2015-A1949 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that used oil filters be source-separated and recycled.

2015-A1949 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1949

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 13, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Environmental Conservation

AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to  used
  oil filters

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

  Section 1.  Section 23-2301 of the environmental conservation  law  is
amended by adding a new subdivision 12 to read as follows:
  12.  THE  TERM  "USED  OIL  FILTER" MEANS ANY DEVICE OR COMPONENT OF A
DEVICE, NO LONGER WANTED BY ITS OWNER, THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF  WHICH  IS
TO REMOVE CONTAMINANTS FROM OIL, WHICH CONTAINS A RESIDUE OF USED OIL AS
DEFINED  IN  THIS  SECTION,  AND IS NOT CONSIDERED HAZARDOUS UNDER STATE
REGULATIONS.
  S 2. Section 23-2305 of the environmental conservation law,  as  added
by chapter 740 of the laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows:
S 23-2305. Regulations of the commissioner.
  The  commissioner  shall,  after  holding  a  public  hearing with due
notice, promulgate rules and regulations  governing  used  oil  AND  OIL
FILTER  collectors  and  rerefiners, in conformance with article twenty-
seven of this chapter, to carry out the requirements of this title.
  S 3. Section 23-2307 of the environmental conservation law, as amended
by chapter 294 of the laws of 1991, paragraphs b and c of subdivision  1
and paragraphs b and d of subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 152 of the
laws of 1995, is amended to read as follows:
S 23-2307. Used  oil  retention  facilities  required;  installation and
             maintenance; posting of notice.
  1. Service establishments. a. Every service establishment,  and  every
other person, industrial operation, airport, trucking terminal, state or
local  government  facility  generating at least five hundred gallons of
used oil annually,  shall,  no  later  than  September  first,  nineteen
hundred  seventy-nine,  provide  and maintain used oil retention facili-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05477-01-5
              

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