§ 27-2301 — Definitions

New York § 27-2301

• Jurisdiction: New York
• Law ENV: Environmental Conservation
• Title 23: Vehicle Dismantling Facilities
• Art. 27: Reduction, Collection, Reuse, Recycling, Treatment and Disposal of Solid Waste

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* § 27-2301. Definitions.\n As used in this title:\n 1. "Container" shall mean any portable device in which a material is\nstored, transported, treated, disposed of or otherwise handled.\n 2. "Contingency plan" means a document describing organized, planned\nand technically coordinated and financially feasible courses of action\nto be followed in case of emergency or other special conditions.\n 3. "Discharge" shall mean the accidental or intentional spilling,\nleaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying or dumping of any solid\nwaste, or solid waste constituent, including leachate, into or on any\nair, land or water.\n 4. "End of life vehicle" shall mean any motor vehicle sold, given, or\notherwise disposed of as junk or salvage.\n 5. "Good condition" shall mean no severe rusting, apparent structural\ndefects or deteriorations and not leaking.\n 6. "Groundwater" shall mean water below the land surface in a\nsaturated zone of soil or rock. This includes perched water separated\nfrom the main body of groundwater by an unsaturated zone.\n 7. "Leak-resistant" or "leak-proof" shall mean designed and maintained\nto prevent the escape of contained liquids or other materials when\nappropriately closed regardless of container orientation (i.e., upright,\ntipped over).\n 8. "Mercury containing devices" shall mean any device or material into\nwhich elemental mercury or mercury compounds are intentionally added\nduring the manufacture of such devices and which the continued presence\nof mercury is required to provide a specific characteristic, appearance\nor quality or to perform a specific function. Such items include but are\nnot limited to convenience lighting switches, antilock brake assemblies,\nand high intensity discharge head lamps.\n 9. "Surface water" shall mean lakes, bays, sounds, ponds, impounding\nreservoirs, perennial streams and springs, rivers, creeks, estuaries,\nmarshes, inlets, canals, the Atlantic ocean within the territorial\nlimits of New York state, and all other perennial bodies of surface\nwater, natural or artificial, inland or coastal, fresh or salt, public\nor private, pursuant to article 15 of this chapter.\n 10. "Vector" shall mean a carrier that is capable of transmitting a\npathogen from one organism to another including, but not limited to,\nflies and other insects, rodents, birds and vermin.\n 11. "Vehicle dismantler" shall mean any person or entity engaged in\nthe business of acquiring motor vehicles or trailers for the purpose of\ndismantling the same for parts or reselling such vehicles as scrap, but\nshall not include a person that receives no more than twenty-five end of\nlife vehicles per year and stores less than fifty end of life vehicles\non site at any one time.\n * NB There are 2 § 27-2301's\n