N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law § 17-1727: Permission to discharge refuse or waste matter from industrial establishments

* § 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 the discharge of refuse or waste matter into any of the

waters of the state is otherwise prohibited by section 17-1701, the

commissioner shall have power to consider the case of the said shop,

factory, mill or industrial establishment, and whenever the public

health and purity of the waters shall warrant it, he shall issue a

permit for the discharge of refuse or waste matter from such shop,

factory, mill or industrial establishment into any of the waters of the

state, and may stipulate in the permit such modification, regulations

and conditions as the public health may require.

2. Such permit before being operative shall be recorded in the county

clerk's office of the county where such shop, factory, mill or

industrial establishment is located and a copy of such permit shall be

transmitted by the commissioner to the board of health of the

municipality wherein the outlet discharging refuse or waste matter from

such shop, factory, mill or industrial establishment shall be located.

* NB Expired September 1, 1973