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CHAPTER 664 An ACT to repeal and reenact chapter forty-three-B of the consolidated laws, to amend the public health law, and to repeal certain articles, titles, parts and sections of the conservation law, the public health law, the agriculture and markets law, the executive law, and chapter seven hundred one of the law…
ARTICLE 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS Title 1. Declaration of policy 3. Short title; general definitions
TITLE 1 DECLARATION OF POLICY Section 1-0101. Declaration of policy.
§ 1-0101. Declaration of policy. 1. The quality of our environment is fundamental to our concern for the quality of life. It is hereby declared to be the policy of the State of New York to conserve, improve and protect its natural resources and environment and to prevent, abate and control water, land and air pollution…
TITLE 3 SHORT TITLE; GENERAL DEFINITIONS Section 1-0301. Short title. 1-0303. General definitions.
§ 1-0301. Short title. This chapter shall be known as the "Environmental Conservation Law," and may be cited as "ECL."
§ 1-0303. General definitions. Whenever used in this chapter, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context or unless a different meaning is stated in a definition applicable to only a portion of this chapter: 1. "Air pollution emergency" means a combination of circumstances which requires immediate actio…
ARTICLE 3 DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION; GENERAL FUNCTIONS, POWERS, DUTIES AND JURISDICTION Title 1. Department of environmental conservation 3. General functions, powers, duties and jurisdiction
TITLE 1 DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION Section 3-0101. Continuation of department. 3-0103. Commissioner of environmental conservation. 3-0105. Offices of department. 3-0107. Organization of department; officers and employees. 3-0109. Eligibility for certain offices. 3-0113. The New York State Conservationist.…
§ 3-0101. Continuation of department. The Department of Environmental Conservation, which was established by chapter 140 of the Laws of 1970, is hereby continued, and all the powers, functions, duties and obligations possessed by the department pursuant to such chapter immediately preceding the effective date of this c…
§ 3-0103. Commissioner of environmental conservation. The head of the department shall be the Commissioner of Environmental Conservation, who shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and hold office at the pleasure of the Governor by whom he was appointed and until his succe…
* § 3-0105. Offices of department. The principal office of the department shall be in the County of Albany. * NB Effective prior to Dept. of Environmental Conservation moving to the city of Albany * § 3-0105. Offices of the department. The principal office of the department shall be in the city of Albany. * NB Effectiv…
§ 3-0107. Organization of department; officers and employees. 1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law the commissioner may, from time to time, create, abolish, transfer and consolidate divisions, bureaus, field offices and other units within the department, including those transferred to the department by…
§ 3-0109. Eligibility for certain offices. No person shall be eligible for or shall continue to hold the office of commissioner, deputy commissioner, secretary to the department, if any there be, or head of a division who is engaged in the business of lumbering in any forest preserve county or who is engaged in any bus…
§ 3-0113. The New York State Conservationist. 1. To the end that there shall be promoted a wider understanding of the problems affecting conservation of natural resources in this state, it is declared advisable to authorize the agents who issue hunting, fishing and trapping licenses to sell annual subscriptions to the…
§ 3-0115. Establishment of forestry and wildlife management areas by United States; consent of state. 1. To implement and supplement federal statutes now in effect and to authorize the acquisition by the United States of America of upland area for conservation purposes, the consent of the State of New York is hereby gr…
§ 3-0117. Activities of local governmental agencies. 1. Activities of local health boards, departments and officers and other local government agencies pertaining to functions, powers and duties which were transferred pursuant to chapter 140 of the Laws of 1970, from the Department and Commissioner of Health to the Dep…
§ 3-0119. Laboratory tests. Any laboratory tests or sample analysis required pursuant to article seventeen, nineteen or twenty-seven of this chapter for which the commissioner of health issues certificates of approval pursuant to section five hundred two of the public health law shall be conducted by a laboratory which…
TITLE 3 GENERAL FUNCTIONS, POWERS, DUTIES AND JURISDICTION Section 3-0301. General functions, powers and duties of the department and the commissioner. 3-0302. Review of state-owned lands. 3-0303. Statewide environmental plan. 3-0304. The department shall compile and maintain an inventory of educational resources for t…
§ 3-0301. General functions, powers and duties of the department and the commissioner. 1. It shall be the responsibility of the department, in accordance with such existing provisions and limitations as may be elsewhere set forth in law, by and through the commissioner to carry out the environmental policy of the state…
§ 3-0302. Review of state-owned lands. Within amounts appropriated therefor, by January first, nineteen hundred ninety-five, the commissioner, in consultation with the New York state biodiversity research institute created pursuant to section two hundred thirty-five-a of the education law, shall conduct a review of lan…
§ 3-0303. Statewide environmental plan. 1. The department shall formulate and from time to time revise a statewide environmental plan for the management and protection of the quality of the environment and the natural resources of the state, in furtherance of the legislative policy and purposes expressed in chapter 140…
§ 3-0304. The department shall compile and maintain an inventory of educational resources for teaching the principles of environmental conservation in New York state. Inventory of educational resources for teaching the principles of environmental conservation in New York state. l. Legislative findings. The people of th…
§ 3-0305. Acquirement of real property by purchase or appropriation. 1. The commissioner when moneys therefor have been appropriated by the legislature or are otherwise available, may acquire any real property which he deems necessary for any of the purposes or functions of the department, by purchase or as provided in…
§ 3-0306. Registry of public agencies and private organizations; notice of department hearings. 1. The commissioner shall develop and maintain a registry of government agencies and officials and of private organizations of statewide, regional, county and local scope, with interests in the regulatory and other programs…