27-2301 – Definitions.

* § 27-2301. Definitions.
As used in this title:
1.  "Container"  shall mean any portable device in which a material is
  stored, transported, treated, disposed of or otherwise handled.
2. "Contingency plan" means a document describing  organized,  planned
  and  technically  coordinated and financially feasible courses of action
  to be followed in case of emergency or other special conditions.
3. "Discharge" shall mean  the  accidental  or  intentional  spilling,
  leaking,  pumping,  pouring,  emitting, emptying or dumping of any solid
  waste, or solid waste constituent, including leachate, into  or  on  any
  air, land or water.
4.  "End of life vehicle" shall mean any motor vehicle sold, given, or
  otherwise disposed of as junk or salvage.
5. "Good condition" shall mean no severe rusting, apparent  structural
  defects or deteriorations and not leaking.
6.  "Groundwater"  shall  mean  water  below  the  land  surface  in a
  saturated zone of soil or rock. This includes  perched  water  separated
  from the main body of groundwater by an unsaturated zone.
7. "Leak-resistant" or "leak-proof" shall mean designed and maintained
  to  prevent  the  escape  of  contained  liquids or other materials when
  appropriately closed regardless of container orientation (i.e., upright,
  tipped over).
8. "Mercury containing devices" shall mean any device or material into
  which elemental mercury or mercury  compounds  are  intentionally  added
  during  the manufacture of such devices and which the continued presence
  of mercury is required to provide a specific characteristic,  appearance
  or quality or to perform a specific function. Such items include but are
  not limited to convenience lighting switches, antilock brake assemblies,
  and high intensity discharge head lamps.
9.  "Surface  water" shall mean lakes, bays, sounds, ponds, impounding
  reservoirs, perennial streams and springs,  rivers,  creeks,  estuaries,
  marshes,  inlets,  canals,  the  Atlantic  ocean  within the territorial
  limits of New York state, and all  other  perennial  bodies  of  surface
  water,  natural  or artificial, inland or coastal, fresh or salt, public
  or private, pursuant to article 15 of this chapter.
10. "Vector" shall mean a carrier that is capable  of  transmitting  a
  pathogen  from  one  organism  to another including, but not limited to,
  flies and other insects, rodents, birds and vermin.
11. "Vehicle dismantler" shall mean any person or  entity  engaged  in
  the  business of acquiring motor vehicles or trailers for the purpose of
  dismantling the same for parts or reselling such vehicles as scrap,  but
  shall not include a person that receives no more than twenty-five end of
  life  vehicles  per year and stores less than fifty end of life vehicles
  on site at any one time.
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