N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law § 27-2301: Definitions

* § 27-2301. Definitions.

As used in this title:

1. "Container" shall mean any portable device in which a material is

stored, transported, treated, disposed of or otherwise handled.

2. "Contingency plan" means a document describing organized, planned

and technically coordinated and financially feasible courses of action

to be followed in case of emergency or other special conditions.

3. "Discharge" shall mean the accidental or intentional spilling,

leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying or dumping of any solid

waste, or solid waste constituent, including leachate, into or on any

air, land or water.

4. "End of life vehicle" shall mean any motor vehicle sold, given, or

otherwise disposed of as junk or salvage.

5. "Good condition" shall mean no severe rusting, apparent structural

defects or deteriorations and not leaking.

6. "Groundwater" shall mean water below the land surface in a

saturated zone of soil or rock. This includes perched water separated

from the main body of groundwater by an unsaturated zone.

7. "Leak-resistant" or "leak-proof" shall mean designed and maintained

to prevent the escape of contained liquids or other materials when

appropriately closed regardless of container orientation (i.e., upright,

tipped over).

8. "Mercury containing devices" shall mean any device or material into

which elemental mercury or mercury compounds are intentionally added

during the manufacture of such devices and which the continued presence

of mercury is required to provide a specific characteristic, appearance

or quality or to perform a specific function. Such items include but are

not limited to convenience lighting switches, antilock brake assemblies,

and high intensity discharge head lamps.

9. "Surface water" shall mean lakes, bays, sounds, ponds, impounding

reservoirs, perennial streams and springs, rivers, creeks, estuaries,

marshes, inlets, canals, the Atlantic ocean within the territorial

limits of New York state, and all other perennial bodies of surface

water, natural or artificial, inland or coastal, fresh or salt, public

or private, pursuant to article 15 of this chapter.

10. "Vector" shall mean a carrier that is capable of transmitting a

pathogen from one organism to another including, but not limited to,

flies and other insects, rodents, birds and vermin.

11. "Vehicle dismantler" shall mean any person or entity engaged in

the business of acquiring motor vehicles or trailers for the purpose of

dismantling the same for parts or reselling such vehicles as scrap, but

shall not include a person that receives no more than twenty-five end of

life vehicles per year and stores less than fifty end of life vehicles

on site at any one time.

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