17-1717 – Order to Discontinue Pollution of Waters.
* § 17-1717. Order to discontinue pollution of waters. 1. Whenever the commissioner shall determine upon investigation that sewage from any city, village, town, building, steamboat or other vessel, or property, or any garbage, offal or any decomposable or putrescible matter of any kind is being discharged into any of the waters of the state, […]
17-1719 – Actions by Municipalities to Prevent Discharge of Sewage Into Waters.
* § 17-1719. Actions by municipalities to prevent discharge of sewage into waters. 1. Any incorporated city or village in the state of New York, which has made such provision for the disposal of its sewage as not to pollute or contaminate therewith any river, stream, lake or other body of water, may have and […]
17-1721 – Reports of Municipal Authorities to Local Boards of Health.
* § 17-1721. Reports of municipal authorities to local boards of health. 1. The report of the public authorities having by law charge of the sewer system of every municipality in the state, from which sewer system sewage was being discharged into any of the waters of the state on May 7, 1903, transmitted by […]
17-1723 – Reports of Proprietors of Industrial Establishments.
* § 17-1723. Reports of proprietors of industrial establishments. 1. The report of the proprietor of every shop, factory, mill and industrial establishment in the state, from which refuse or waste matter was being discharged into any of the waters of the state on May 7, 1903, filed in the office of the commissioner shall […]
17-1725 – Permission to Discharge Sewage.
* § 17-1725. Permission to discharge sewage. 1. Upon application duly made to the commissioner by the public authorities having by law the charge of the sewer system of any municipality, the commissioner shall have power to consider the case of a sewer system otherwise prohibited by section 17-1701 from discharging sewage into any of […]
17-1727 – Permission to Discharge Refuse or Waste Matter From Industrial Establishments.
* § 17-1727. Permission to discharge refuse or waste matter from industrial establishments. 1. Upon application duly made to the commissioner by the proprietor, lessee or tenant of any shop, factory, mill or industrial establishment from which the discharge of refuse or waste matter into any of the waters of the state is otherwise prohibited […]
17-1729 – Permits for Conduit or Discharge Pipes.
* § 17-1729. Permits for conduit or discharge pipes. 1. Before any conduit or discharge pipe, or other means of discharging or casting any refuse or waste matter from any shop, factory, mill or industrial establishment not constructed or in process of construction on May 7, 1903, shall be put in or constructed for the […]
17-1701 – Definition of Sewage; Discharge of Sewage and Other Matter Into Certain Waters Prohibited.
* § 17-1701. Definition of sewage; discharge of sewage and other matter into certain waters prohibited. 1. For the purposes of this title sewage shall be defined as any substance, solid or liquid that contains any of the waste products or excrementitious or other wastes or washings from the bodies of human beings or animals. […]
17-1703 – Contamination of Salt Wells.
§ 17-1703. Contamination of salt wells. It shall be unlawful for any person to wilfully place, introduce or cause to flow or enter into any spring, brook or body of water, which is used in the manufacture of salt, or into any salt well, or salt mine, or into any cavity or reservoir beneath the […]
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
§ 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 extending from the city dam on the outlet to the existing Moravia village outfall sewer on the inlet are prohibited. 1. No person or corporation shall cause or permit the […]