N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law § 17-0827: Conflicts of interest

§ 17-0827. Conflicts of interest.

The commissioner of the department or his designee responsible for

issuance of SPDES permits hereunder, is hereby prohibited from

receiving, or during two years prior to approval of an application for a

permit from having received, a significant portion of his income

directly or indirectly from permit holders or applicants for a permit.

For the purposes of this section (a) "significant portion of his income"

shall mean ten percent of gross personal income for a calendar year,

except that it shall mean fifty percent of gross personal income for a

calendar year if the recipient is over sixty years of age and is

receiving such portion pursuant to retirement, pension, or similar

arrangement; (b) "income" includes retirement benefits, consultant fees,

and stock dividends; and (c) income is not received "directly or

indirectly from permit holders or applicants for a permit" where it is

derived from mutual-fund payments, or from other diversified investments

over which the recipient does not know the identity of the primary

sources of income.