N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 17-1713 – Discharge of sewage and other offensive matter into Brant Lake, Loon Lake, Friends Lake and Schroon Lake prohibited
* § 17-1713. Discharge of sewage and other offensive matter into Brant
Terms Used In N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 17-1713
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
Lake, Loon Lake, Friends Lake and Schroon Lake
prohibited.
1. No person or corporation shall cause or permit the fall, flow or discharge into Brant lake, Loon lake or Friends lake in the county of Warren or Schroon lake located partly in the county of Essex and partly in the county of Warren or any of their tributaries, of any sewage matter, or other foul, noxious or deleterious, solid or liquid matter, or effluent from any sewage disposal plant, or any matter that may be declared such by the board of health of any municipality adjacent to any such lake where any such fall, flow or discharge shall occur.
2. The board of health of any such municipality shall examine into any alleged offense against this section within its jurisdiction and cause the same to be abated, by injunction or otherwise, if found to exist.
3. The prohibition of the discharge of sewage effluent into Schroon lake as hereinbefore in this section provided shall not apply to the treated effluent from a sewage or waste treatment plant which has been, or may be constructed, maintained and operated in accordance with plans approved and a permit issued by the former Water Pollution Control Board. Such permit shall prohibit the discharge of sewage effluent into Schroon lake or any of its tributaries in any quantities which will adversely affect said waters or which will render said waters unsuitable for any purpose recognized under the classification of said waters by the former Water Pollution Control Board.
* NB Expired September 1, 1973