New York Navigation Law Part 2 - Oil Spill Cleanup and Removal; Licenses

• 173 - Discharge of Petroleum; Prohibition.
  1. The discharge of petroleum is prohibited. 2. On or after January first, nineteen hundred ninety-four, all new vessels sold in New York that are...
• 174 - Licenses.
  1. No person shall operate or cause to be operated a major facility as defined in this article without (a) a license issued by the...
• 174-a - Use of Containment Booms.
  1. The commissioner, after consultation with appropriate federal, state and local governments and agencies, may promulgate regulations requiring the use of containment booms or prestaging...
• 174-b - Use of Agents.
  1. The commissioner may promulgate regulations governing the use of dispersants, burning agents, biological additives, surface collecting agents or other chemical additives in the cleanup...
• 175 - Notification by Persons Responsible for Discharge.
  Any person responsible for causing a discharge shall immediately notify the department pursuant to rules and regulations established by the department, but in no case...
• 176 - Removal of Prohibited Discharges.
  1. Any person discharging petroleum in the manner prohibited by section one hundred seventy-three of this article shall immediately undertake to contain such discharge. Notwithstanding...
• 177 - Emergency Oil Spill Control Network.
  1. The commissioner shall establish an emergency oil spill control network which shall be comprised of available equipment from appropriate town, county and state highway...
• 177-a - Emergency Oil Spill Relocation Network.
  1. The commissioner shall establish an emergency oil spill relocation network which shall be headed by the commissioner of health and comprised of the appropriate...
• 177-b - Habitat Protection Plan.
  The commissioner may require every major facility which engages in the transfer of petroleum to file with the department a habitat protection plan as a...
• 178 - Right to Enter and Inspect.
  The department is hereby authorized to enter and inspect any property or premises for the purpose of inspecting facilities and investigating either actual or suspected...
• 178-a - Responder Immunity.
  1. Definitions. For the purposes of this section only, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "response efforts" means rendering care, assistance, or...

Last modified: February 3, 2019