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N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law § 17-1721: Reports of municipal authorities to local boards of health

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  1. Environmental Conservation Law
  2. Article 17. Water Pollution Control
  3. Title 17. Discharge of Sewage Into Waters

* § 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 system

sewage was being discharged into any of the waters of the state on May

7, 1903, transmitted by the board of health of the municipality within

which any sewer outlet of the said sewer system is located to the

commissioner and filed by him in his office, shall constitute the

evidence of exemption from the prohibition of section 17-1701.

2. No sewer system shall be exempt from the prohibition of said

section against the discharge of sewage into the waters of the state for

which a satisfactory report shall not have been filed in the office of

the commissioner in accordance with chapter 468 of the laws of 1903.

* NB Expired September 1, 1973

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