Terms Used In New York Laws > Environmental Conservation > Article 27 > Title 23 - Vehicle Dismantling Facilities

• Container: shall mean any portable device in which a material is stored, transported, treated, disposed of or otherwise handled. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2301
• 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. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2301
• 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. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2301
• End of life vehicle: shall mean any motor vehicle sold, given, or otherwise disposed of as junk or salvage. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2301
• Good condition: shall mean no severe rusting, apparent structural defects or deteriorations and not leaking. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2301
• Groundwater: shall mean water below the land surface in a saturated zone of soil or rock. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2301
• 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. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2301
• 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. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2301
• 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. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2301