N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law § 21-0507: Enforcement proceedings

§ 21-0507. Enforcement proceedings.

Whenever the interstate environmental commission shall be of the

opinion that any person, association or corporation, municipal or

otherwise, within the district is failing or omitting, or about to fail

or omit to do anything required of it by its order or by the laws

governing the control or elimination of pollution of the waters of the

district, or is doing or is about to do anything, or permitting or about

to permit anything to be done contrary to or in violation of such orders

or such laws, or the provisions of the compact, it may direct its legal

representative to commence an action or a proceeding in the name of the

interstate environmental commission in an appropriate court having

jurisdiction for the purpose of having such violations or threatened

violations stopped and prevented. Such an action or proceeding when

directed against any person, firm, association, corporation, municipal

or otherwise, within the state may be brought in the supreme court of

this state and the said court shall have and is hereby given the

necessary and appropriate jurisdiction to determine such action or

proceeding upon the merits and/or to grant any relief appropriate to the

case.