N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law § 19-0709: Local laws, ordinances and regulations

§ 19-0709. Local laws, ordinances and regulations.

Any local laws, ordinances or regulations of any governing body of a

county, city, town or village which are not inconsistent with this

article or with any code, rule or regulation which shall be promulgated

pursuant to this article shall not be superseded by it, and nothing in

this article or in any code, rule or regulation which shall be

promulgated pursuant to this article shall preclude the right of any

governing body of a county, city, town or village to adopt local laws,

ordinances or regulations which are not inconsistent with this article

or with any code, rule or regulation which shall be promulgated pursuant

to this article provided, however, that the exercise of such right by a

county shall relate only to the area thereof outside any city, village

or area of any town outside the village or villages therein during such

time as such city, village or town has local laws, ordinances or

regulations consistent with this article or with any code, rule or

regulation which shall be promulgated pursuant to this article. Any

local laws, ordinances or regulations of a county, city, town or village

which comply with at least the minimum applicable requirements set forth

in any code, rule or regulation promulgated pursuant to this article

shall be deemed consistent with this article or with any such code, rule

or regulation.