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NY Pub Health L § 1300-C (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 13 - Nuisances and Sanitation Title 1 - General Provisions; Control and Abatement 1300-C - Farming Activities.

§  1300-c. Farming activities.  Notwithstanding any other provision of   law, the agricultural activities conducted on  a  farm,  as  defined  in   section  six  hundred  seventy-one  of  the  labor  law,  shall  not  be   considered a private nuisance,  provided  such  agricultural  activities   were  commenced  prior to the surrounding activities, have not increased   substantially in magnitude or intensity and have not been determined  to   be  the cause of conditions dangerous to life or health as determined by   the commissioner, the local health officer  or  local  board  of  health   pursuant  to  sections  thirteen  hundred,  thirteen hundred-a, thirteen   hundred three and thirteen hundred four of this chapter.
NY Pub Health L § 1301 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 13 - Nuisances and Sanitation Title 1 - General Provisions; Control and Abatement 1301 - Nuisances; Examination and Abatement by Order of Governor; Expenses.

§  1301.  Nuisances;  examination  and abatement by order of governor;   expenses.  1. Whenever required by the governor, the commissioner  shall   make  an  examination  concerning  nuisances  or questions affecting the   security of life and health  in  any  locality,  and  shall  report  the   results  thereof  to  the  governor,  within  the time prescribed by him   therefor.2. The  report  of  every  such  examination,  when  approved  by  the   governor,  shall  be  filed in the office of the secretary of state, and   the governor may declare the matters  public  nuisances,  which  may  be   found  and  certified  in any such report to be nuisances, and may order   them to be changed, abated or removed as he may direct.3. Every such order shall be presumptive evidence of the existence  of   such  nuisance;  and  the  governor may, by a precept under his hand and   official seal, require the district attorney, sheriff and other officers   of the county where such nuisance is maintained, to take  all  necessary   measures  to  execute such order and cause it to be obeyed, and the acts   of any such county officer  in  the  abatement  of  any  such  nuisance,   reasonable  or  necessary  for  such  abatement,  shall  be  lawful  and   justifiable and the order of the governor  a  sufficient  protection  to   such officer.4.  The  expense  of  such abatement shall be paid by the municipality   where the nuisance occurs, and shall  be  a  debt  recoverable  by  such   municipality  of  all  persons,  maintaining  it  or  assisting  in  its   maintenance, and a lien  and  charge  upon  the  lands  upon  which  the   nuisance is maintained, which may be enforced by a sale of such lands to   satisfy the same.
NY Pub Health L § 1302 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 13 - Nuisances and Sanitation Title 1 - General Provisions; Control and Abatement 1302 - Nuisances; Local Boards of Health; Duty to Assist Commissioner.

§   1302.   Nuisances;   local   boards  of  health;  duty  to  assist   commissioner.  1. Whenever requested by the commissioner, the  board  of   health of any health district may appoint one of its members to act with   and  assist  the commissioner during the investigation or examination of   any nuisance, or  for  the  purpose  of  determining  whether  a  public   nuisance exists.2.  Such  representative  may  take  part in such examination, but the   final determination of the questions involved shall rest solely with the   commissioner.
NY Pub Health L § 1303 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 13 - Nuisances and Sanitation Title 1 - General Provisions; Control and Abatement 1303 - Nuisances; Local Boards of Health; General Powers and Duties.

§  1303. Nuisances; local boards of health; general powers and duties.   1. Every local board of health and local health  officer  shall  receive   and  examine  into  all  complaints  made  by  any inhabitant concerning   nuisances, or causes of danger or injury to life and health  within  the   health  district,  and  may  enter  upon or within any place or premises   where nuisances or conditions dangerous to life and health or which  are   the  cause  of  nuisances  existing  elsewhere  are known or believed to   exist, and by its members or other persons designated for that  purpose,   inspect and examine the same.2. The local board of health or local health officer having the powers   of  a  local  board  of  health  shall  furnish  the  owners, agents and   occupants of the premises with a written statement of  the  results  and   conclusions  of  any examination conducted pursuant to the provisions of   sections one thousand three hundred three to one thousand three  hundred   five, inclusive, of this chapter.3. Every local board of health shall order the suppression and removal   of  all nuisances and conditions detrimental to life and health found to   exist within the health district.4. Whenever the commissioner shall by notice to the presiding  officer   of  any local board of health, direct him to convene such local board to   take certain definite  proceedings  concerning  which  the  commissioner   shall  be  satisfied that the action recommended by him is necessary for   the public good, and is within the jurisdiction of such board of health,   such presiding officer shall convene such local board of  health,  which   shall take the action directed.
NY Pub Health L § 1304 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 13 - Nuisances and Sanitation Title 1 - General Provisions; Control and Abatement 1304 - Nuisances; Local Health Officers; General Powers.

§  1304.  Nuisances; local health officers; general powers.  The local   health officer of a health district having no local board of health  and   each  county  health  commissioner shall have authority equal to a local   board of health to investigate and  abate  public  nuisances  which  may   affect health.
NY Pub Health L § 1305 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 13 - Nuisances and Sanitation Title 1 - General Provisions; Control and Abatement 1305 - Nuisances; Abatement by Local Boards of Health.

§  1305.  Nuisances;  abatement  by  local  boards of health.   1. The   owners, agents and occupants  of  any  premises  shall  permit  sanitary   examinations  and  inspections  to be made pursuant to the provisions of   this article.2. If the owner or occupant of any premises whereon  any  nuisance  or   condition  deemed  to  be detrimental to the public health exists or the   cause of the existence elsewhere, fails to  comply  with  any  order  or   regulation  of  any  local board or health officer having the power of a   local board of health for  the  suppression  and  removal  of  any  such   nuisance or other matter, in the judgment of the board or health officer   detrimental  to the public health, made, served or posted as required in   this article, such board or its agents or employees may enter  upon  the   premises  to  which  such  order  or regulation relates, and suppress or   remove such nuisance or other matter.
NY Pub Health L § 1306 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 13 - Nuisances and Sanitation Title 1 - General Provisions; Control and Abatement 1306 - Nuisances; Abatement Expenses.

§  1306. Nuisances; abatement expenses.  1. The expense of suppression   or removal of a nuisance or conditions detrimental to  health  shall  be   paid  by  the  owner  or  occupant of the premises, or by the person who   caused or maintained such nuisance or other matters, and  the  board  of   health  of  the  municipality or county wherein the premises are located   may maintain an action in the name of  the  municipality  or  county  to   recover  such  expense, and the same when recovered shall be paid to the   treasurer of the municipality or county, or if it has  no  treasurer  to   its  chief  fiscal  officer,  to  be  held  and used as the funds of the   municipality or county.2. Whenever the suppression or removal of such nuisance or  conditions   detrimental  to  health demand the immediate expenditure of money, every   local board of health, local health officer of a health district  having   no  board of health or county health commissioner shall be authorized to   use for such purpose any money in the hands of the board, or may call on   the governing body of the municipality or county as the case may be  for   such  money.  All such moneys so expended shall be immediately repaid to   the fund or source whence they were received on the recovery of the same   by action or otherwise from the persons responsible for the expenses  of   suppression or removal.
NY Pub Health L § 1308 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 13 - Nuisances and Sanitation Title 1 - General Provisions; Control and Abatement 1308 - Powers and Duties of Local Boards of Health.

§  1308. Powers and duties of local boards of health.  It shall be the   duty of local boards of health to enforce the  public  health  law,  the   state  sanitary code and local sanitary codes whether promulgated by the   county or any of the political subdivisions within said county. A  local   board of health is hereby authorized to make an ex parte application for   a  temporary  restraining order and upon sufficient proof to satisfy it,   the court may grant such an order, where there is a violation within the   jurisdiction of the local  board  of  health  which  requires  immediate   relief.
NY Pub Health L § 1309 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 13 - Nuisances and Sanitation Title 1 - General Provisions; Control and Abatement 1309 - City of New York; Exceptions.

§  1309. City of New York; exceptions.  The provisions of sections one   thousand three hundred three to one thousand three hundred seven of this   chapter, inclusive, shall not apply to the city of New York.
NY Pub Health L § 1310 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 13 - Nuisances and Sanitation Title 1 - General Provisions; Control and Abatement 1310 - Removal of Canine Wastes in Cities With a Population of Four Hundred Thousand or More Persons and in the Cities of Yonkers and Albany.

§  1310.  Removal of canine wastes in cities with a population of four   hundred thousand or more persons  and  in  the  cities  of  Yonkers  and   Albany.   Notwithstanding   any  contrary  provision  of  law,  rule  or   regulation, in cities with a population of four hundred thousand or more   persons and in the cities of Yonkers and Albany, it shall be the duty of   each dog owner or person having possession, custody or control of a  dog   to  remove  any  feces  left  by his or her dog on any sidewalk, gutter,   street or other  public  area.  Any  violation  of  this  section  shall   constitute  a  violation  punishable by a fine or a civil penalty of not   more than two hundred fifty dollars. For the purposes of  enforcing  the   provisions  of  this  section,  appearance  tickets  may  be  issued  by   sanitation officers, dog enumerators, or  wardens  and  by  any  persons   authorized  to issue tickets for parking violations. Notwithstanding any   other provision of law to the contrary, in the city of  New  York,  such   appearance  tickets may be returnable to the environmental control board   which shall  have  the  power  to  impose  the  civil  penalties  herein   provided. The provisions of this section shall not apply to a guide dog,   hearing dog or service dog accompanying any person with a disability, as   defined  in  subdivision twenty-one of section two hundred ninety-two of   the executive law.
NY Pub Health L § 1311 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 13 - Nuisances and Sanitation Title 1 - General Provisions; Control and Abatement 1311 - Hand Washing Facilities at Certain Public Establishments Featuring Animals.

§  1311.  Hand  washing  facilities  at  certain public establishments   featuring animals. 1.  All  public  establishments  including,  but  not   limited  to,  carnivals,  fairs  and  amusement parks, as such terms are   defined in section eight hundred seventy-c of the labor law, farms,  and   farmers'  markets,  as such term is defined in section two hundred sixty   of the agriculture and markets  law,  which  feature  displays  of  live   animals  that  patrons  may reasonably be expected to come into physical   contact with for the purpose  of  touching,  holding  or  petting  shall   provide hand washing or hand cleansing facilities for such patrons. Hand   washing  or  hand  cleansing  facilities  may  be temporary or permanent   fixtures and shall include one  or  more  of  the  following:  soap  and   running  water;  anti-bacterial fluids, foams or gels; or anti-bacterial   or antiseptic wipes or towels.2. Signs shall be conspicuously posted and shall state in a clear  and   legible  typeface,  the following: "Animals may carry germs and bacteria   that can cause disease  to  people.  It  is  strongly  recommended  that   persons  wash  or cleanse their hands after touching, holding or petting   the animals." Such signs shall also indicate where the hand  washing  or   hand cleansing facility is located.3.  The  commissioner  may  make  rules guarding against the spread of   bacteria and viruses at public establishments that  feature  animals  as   provided  in  subdivision one of this section, to persons employed at or   to patrons of such establishments where such establishments are  located   outside  the city of New York, and where such establishments are located   within the city of New York, the commissioner of public  health  of  the   city of New York may make and enforce such rules.
NY Pub Health L § 1320 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 13 - Nuisances and Sanitation Title 2 - Noxious Weeds and Growths 1320 - Noxious Weeds and Growths; Declaration of Nuisance.

§  1320.  Noxious  weeds  and  growths;  declaration of nuisance.   1.   Whenever in any health district there shall be growing on  any  property   therein  any  ragweed or other species of weed, plant or growth which is   noxious or detrimental to the public health,  or  the  seed,  pollen  or   other  emanation  therefrom,  when  carried through the air or otherwise   dispersed, is noxious or detrimental to the  public  health,  the  local   board  of  health of any such health district may take and file upon its   records what  it  shall  regard  as  sufficient  proof  to  authorize  a   declaration  that  the  existence  of  any  such growth is a nuisance or   danger to the public health, and may thereupon enter the same  upon  its   records  as  a  nuisance  and order the same to be removed, destroyed or   otherwise abated on any property wherever found.2. The local board of health may also take and file among its  records   what it shall regard as sufficient proof to authorize a declaration that   at  any  season  or  period  of  the  year there exists a particular and   imminent danger to the public health by reason of the approaching period   of pollination of any such growth and may enter such determination  upon   its record.
NY Pub Health L § 1321 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 13 - Nuisances and Sanitation Title 2 - Noxious Weeds and Growths 1321 - Noxious Weeds and Growths; Notice to Abate; Enforcement.

§  1321.  Noxious weeds and growths; notice to abate; enforcement.  1.   In addition to the mode of service of any notice or order of  any  local   board  of  health  authorized  by any other section of this chapter, and   during the period or season when a particular  and  imminent  danger  to   public health arising out of the pollination of weeds, plants or growths   is  determined  to  exist,  any such local board of health may order the   destruction of such weeds, plants or growths and the disposition thereof   by posting a copy of such order conspicuously on the property where such   noxious weeds, plants, or growths are found, requiring  the  destruction   or  other  disposition  thereof  as shall be directed by such order. The   posting of such order shall be sufficient notice of such  order  to  the   owner, lessee, occupant of, or principal person or persons interested in   such property, of the nuisance created by such weeds, plants or growths.2.  If any such order is not complied with, or so far complied with as   the local board of health shall regard as reasonable, within  five  days   after  service,  or  within a shorter time, which, in case of particular   and imminent danger to the public health the local board of  health  may   designate,   such   local  board  of  health  or  other  agency  of  the   municipality or county may enter upon any such property and  remove  and   destroy  any  weeds,  plants  and  growths noxious or detrimental to the   public health.3. The provisions  of  sections  thirteen  hundred  six  and  thirteen   hundred seven of this chapter shall apply respecting the expense of such   removal,  destruction  or  abatement, except where a different method of   collecting such expense is otherwise provided by law for and in  respect   to  any  health  district, then and in that event the provisions of such   law in connection therewith shall apply  in  the  case  of  such  health   district.4.  The  provisions  of  this  section and of section thirteen hundred   twenty  of  this  chapter  shall  not  operate  to  deprive  the   local   legislative  body  of  any  municipality or county of the power to enact   local laws in relation to any matter in  respect  to  which  such  power   would  otherwise  exist,  nor  shall  it limit such power. If this power   otherwise exists, any provision of this section and of section  thirteen   hundred  twenty  of  this  chapter  may  be  superseded, supplemented or   amended by local law in the same manner and to the same extent  as  such   provisions could be superseded, supplemented or amended had this section   and section thirteen hundred twenty of this chapter not been enacted.
NY Pub Health L § 1325 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 13 - Nuisances and Sanitation Title 3 - Tenement House Sanitation 1325 - Tenement Houses in Cities; Power of Commissioner.

§  1325.  Tenement  houses  in  cities;  power of commissioner. 1. The   commissioner shall have power to examine into  the  enforcement  of  the   laws relating to tenement houses in any city.2. Whenever required by the governor, the commissioner shall make such   an  examination  and  shall  report  the results thereof to the governor   within the time prescribed by him therefor.
NY Pub Health L § 1335 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 13 - Nuisances and Sanitation Title 5 - Suppression of Certain Businesses 1335 - Certain Businesses Prohibited; Application.

§  1335.  Certain businesses prohibited; application.  1. It shall not   be lawful for any person to engage in or carry on the  business  of  fat   rendering, boneboiling or the manufacture of fertilizers or any business   as  a  public  nuisance  within the corporate limits of any incorporated   city of this state, or  within  a  distance  of  three  miles  from  the   corporate  limits  of  any  incorporated  city,  provided, however, that   nothing herein contained shall prevent the  rendering  of  fresh  killed   cattle or swine.2.  This  section  shall  not  apply to the counties of Fulton, Wayne,   Tompkins, Chautauqua, Orange, Dutchess, Erie, Monroe, Oneida,  Onondaga,   New  York,  Schoharie,  Ulster,  Greene,  Cayuga,  Cattaraugus, Niagara,   Saratoga, Schenectady, Hamilton, Montgomery and Orleans.
NY Pub Health L § 1336 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 13 - Nuisances and Sanitation Title 5 - Suppression of Certain Businesses 1336 - Certain Businesses Prohibited; Enforcement; Violation.

§ 1336. Certain businesses prohibited; enforcement; violation.  1. All   departments  of  health  or the commissioner or commissioners thereof in   any incorporated city of this state shall  have  power  to  enforce  the   provisions of section thirteen hundred thirty-five of this chapter.2.  Any  person  violating  the provisions of section thirteen hundred   thirty-five of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be guilty of   a misdemeanor.
NY Pub Health L § 1340 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 13 - Nuisances and Sanitation Title 6 - Bathing Establishments 1340 - Bathing Places; Sanitary Requirements.

§  1340.  Bathing  places;  sanitary  requirements.    1.  It shall be unlawful for any person to maintain, either  as  owner  or  lessee,  any bathing  establishment of any kind, in this state, for the accommodation of persons, for pay, or any consideration, at a  point  less  than  five hundred  feet from any sewer connection emptying therein, or thereat, so as to pollute in any way, the waters  used  by  those  using  or  hiring bathing houses at such bathing establishment.   2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of the owner, lessee or any other person maintaining any bathing establishment of any kind:  (a) to provide separate  toilet  rooms,  with  water-closets  properly provided with sanitary plumbing, constructed in a manner approved by the local  board  of  health  of  the  health  district  wherein the bathing establishment is located, and in such a way as not  to  contaminate  the waters used by the bathers; and,  (b) to thoroughly wash and disinfect, or cause to be thoroughly washed and disinfected, in a manner approved by the said local board of health, all  bathing  suits  that  have  been hired or used, before re-hiring or permitting the use of the same again.
NY Pub Health L § 1342 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 13 - Nuisances and Sanitation Title 6 - Bathing Establishments 1342 - Bathing Places; Violations; Penalties; Enforcement.

§  1342.  Bathing  places; violations; penalties; enforcement.  1. Any   person violating any of  the  provisions  of  section  thirteen  hundred   forty-one  of  this chapter, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of not less   than fifty dollars, nor more than two hundred dollars to be recovered by   the sheriff of the county in which such violation is  committed,  except   in  the city of New York, when the penalty shall be sued for in the name   of the department of health of the city of New York and collected by it.2. A separate penalty may be recovered for each day  that  any  person   subject  to  the  provisions  of  this  section  may  violate any of the   provisions of the same; but no penalty shall be recovered for any  other   violation  thereof  than  shall  have  occurred during the days when the   owner  or  lessee,  or  other  person,  maintaining  the  said   bathing   establishments, shall have kept the same open for the use of the public,   or  for  such  persons as may be the guests of any hotel with which such   bathing establishments may be connected.3. It shall be the duty of the sheriffs and constables of the  several   counties  of this state abutting upon the seashore, to see that in their   respective counties the provisions of this section are enforced, and  to   bring suit for the recovery of the penalty therein provided, unless some   other person had already brought suit for the same.
NY Pub Health L § 1345 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 13 - Nuisances and Sanitation Title 7 - Hotel Sanitation 1345 - Hotel Sanitation; Sewage; Ventilation.

§  1345.  Hotel sanitation; sewage; ventilation.  Every hotel shall be   well drained and ventilated and every hotel connected with a cesspool or   located in  any  municipality  having  a  sewer  system  shall  be  well   ventilated,   drained,  plumbed  and  connected  according  to  sanitary   principles with such cesspool or sewer system, and shall  be  kept  free   from  effluvia  arising  from sewer, drain, water-closet or other source   within the control of the owner,  manager,  agent  or  other  person  in   charge of said hotel.