N.Y. Public Health Law § 1100: Rules and regulations of the department

§ 1100. Rules and regulations of the department. 1. The department

may make rules and regulations for the protection from contamination of

any or all public supplies of potable waters and water supplies of the

state or United States, institutions, parks, reservations or posts and

their sources within the state, and the commissioner of environmental

protection of the city of New York and the board of water supply of the

city of New York may make such rules and regulations subject to the

approval of the department for the protection from contamination of any

or all public supplies of potable waters and their sources within the

state where the same constitute a part of the source of the public water

supply of said city.

2. Every such rule or regulation shall be published at least once in

each week for two consecutive weeks, in at least one newspaper of the

county where the waters to which it relates are located. The cost of

such publication shall be paid by the corporation, municipality, state

or United States or state or United States institution, park,

reservation or post benefited by the protection of the water supply to

which the rule or regulation published relates.

3. The affidavit of the printer, publisher or proprietor of the

newspaper in which such rule or regulation is published shall be filed,

together with the rule or regulation published, in the county clerk's

office of such county, and such affidavit and rule and regulation shall

be conclusive evidence of such publication, and of all the facts therein

stated in all courts and places.

4. All rules and regulations heretofore duly made and published for

the sanitary protection of public water supplies, pursuant to chapter

five hundred forty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred eighty-five,

and chapter six hundred sixty-one of the laws of eighteen hundred

ninety-three, as amended, are hereby legalized, ratified, confirmed and

continued in force, until new rules and regulations become operative.

5. This section shall not be construed to repeal or affect any of the

provisions of chapter three hundred seventy-eight of the laws of

eighteen hundred ninety-seven, or its amendments.