Bill Text: NY S01187 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes certain local municipal agencies to use surveillance cameras to combat illegal dumping.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-27 - ADVANCED TO THIRD READING [S01187 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S01187-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1187

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 8, 2025
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  ADDABBO, HARCKHAM, PERSAUD, ROLISON -- read twice
          and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
          on Environmental Conservation

        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          authorizing the installation of surveillance cameras

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 27-0107 of the environmental  conservation  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
     3    1-a.  Local  enforcement.  Any  municipal agency having authority over
     4  local sanitization or waste management may install surveillance  cameras
     5  and  review  such  camera  footage to help identify individuals who have
     6  engaged in illegal dumping.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01896-01-5