New York Environmental Conservation Law Title 17 - DISCHARGE OF SEWAGE INTO WATERS

• 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...
• 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,...
• 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...
• 17-1705 - Discharge of Sewage Into Wallkill Creek Prohibited.
  * No person or corporation shall permit the discharge or escape of any sewage, or other matter deleterious to public health, or destructive to fish,...
• 17-1707 - Discharge of Sewage Into the Susquehanna Near Binghamton Prohibited.
  * 1. No person or corporation shall cause to fall, flow or discharge into the Susquehanna river or any of its tributaries, between the Rock...
• 17-1709 - Discharge of Sewage and Other Offensive Matter Into Lake George and Skaneateles Lake Prohibited.
  1. No person or corporation shall cause or permit the fall, flow or discharge into Lake George or Skaneateles lake or any of their tributaries,...
• 17-1710 - Deposit of Garbage or Other Refuse on or in Waters of the Owasco Lake Watershed Extending From the City Dam on the Outlet to the Existing Moravia Vill
  17-1710. Deposit of garbage or other refuse on or in waters of the Owasco lake watershed extending from the city dam on the outlet to...
• 17-1711 - Deposit of Garbage or Other Refuse on or in Waters of Lake George and Skaneateles Lake and Their Tributaries Prohibited.
  No person shall deposit, dump, throw, abandon, discard or place, or cause to be deposited, dumped, thrown, abandoned, discarded or placed upon or in the...
• 17-1713 - Discharge of Sewage and Other Offensive Matter Into Brant Lake, Loon Lake, Friends Lake and Schroon Lake Prohibited.
  * 1. No person or corporation shall cause or permit the fall, flow or discharge into Brant lake, Loon lake or Friends lake in the...
• 17-1715 - Discharge of Sewage and Other Offensive Matter Into Oneida Lake Prohibited.
  * 1. No person or corporation shall cause or permit the fall, flow or discharge into Oneida lake or any of its tributaries of any...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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,...
• 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...
• 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...
• 17-1731 - Revocation or Modification of Permits.
  * 1. Every permit for the discharge of sewage from a sewer system or for the discharge of refuse or waste matter from a shop,...
• 17-1733 - Record of Permits; Inspection of Local Boards of Health.
  * 1. Each local board of health shall preserve in its office and on a form prescribed by the commissioner, a permanent record of the...
• 17-1735 - Violations; Service of Notice; Actions.
  * 1. The board of health of each municipality shall promptly ascertain every violation of, or noncompliance with, any of the provisions of section 17-1701...
• 17-1737 - Legal Construction and Limitations; Riparian Owners.
  * Nothing in titles 15 and 17 of this article shall be construed to diminish or otherwise to modify the common law rights of riparian...
• 17-1739 - Repeal of Provisions.
  The provisions of sections 17-1701, 17-1705, 17-1707, 17-1713 to 17-1737, inclusive, and 71-1925, shall remain in force and effect only until September 1, 1973.
• 17-1741 - Sewerage; Construction; Villages.
  1. Whenever any local board of health in any incorporated village shall deem the sewers of such village insufficient to properly and safely sewer such...
• 17-1743 - Reporting of Spills of Liquids Stored in Bulk.
  Any person who is the owner of or in actual or constructive possession or control of more than one thousand one hundred gallons, in bulk,...
• 17-1745 - Sewage From Vessels.
  1. Definitions. (a) "Dump station" means any facility designed to receive sewage from any portable toilet carried on any vessel. (b) "Marine holding tank" means...

Last modified: February 3, 2019