Laws of New York (Last Updated: November 21, 2014) |
ADC New York City Administrative Code(NEW) |
Title 24. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND UTILITIES |
Chapter 1. AIR POLLUTION CONTROL |
Subchapter 6. EMISSION STANDARDS |
Section 24-141. Emission of air contaminant (including odorous air contaminant) or water vapor; detriment to person, property or plant and animal life
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No person shall cause or permit the emission of air contaminant, including odorous air contaminant, or water vapor if the air contaminant or water vapor causes or may cause detriment to the health, safety, welfare or comfort of any person, or injury to plant and animal life, or causes or may cause damage to property or business, or if it reacts or is likely to react with any other air contaminant or natural air, or is induced to react by solar energy to produce a solid, liquid or gas or any combination thereof which causes or may cause detriment to the health, safety, welfare or comfort of any person, or injury to plant and animal life, or which causes or may cause damage to property or business. (a) The prohibition of this section includes, but is not limited to, emission of the following air contaminant: (1) Air contaminant that contain cadmium, beryllium, mercury or any compounds thereof; (2) Air contaminant containing asbestos, except where such an air contaminant is emitted from the brake lining of a motor vehicle during normal use. (b) The prohibition of this section includes, but is not limited to, emissions of odorous air contaminant from the following sources: (1) Aircraft engines, (2) Ammonia, bleaching powder or chlorine manufacture, (3) Asphalt manufacture or refining, (4) Blood processing, (5) Bag cleaning, (6) Coal tar products manufacture, (7) Compost heaps, (8) Crematory, (9) Creosote treatment or manufacture, (10) Diesel engines, (11) Disinfectants manufacture, (12) Distillation of bones, coal or wood, (13) Dyestuff manufacture, (14) Fat rendering, (15) Fertilizer manufacture and bone grinding, (16) Fish processing, (17) Glue, size or gelatin manufacture, (18) Incineration or reduction of garbage, dead animals, offal or refuse, (19) Oiled rubber or leather goods manufacture, (20) Paint, oil, shellac, turpentine or varnish manufacture, (21) Paper and pulp manufacture, (22) Petroleum refining, (23) Plastic or resin manufacture, (24) Processing of food stuffs, (25) Rubber manufacture, (26) Shoe-blackening manufacture, (27) Soap and detergent manufacture, (28) Slaughter-houses, (29) Sulfuric, nitric or hydrochloric acid manufacture, (30) Tanning, curing or storage of rawhides or skins, (31) Tar distillation or manufacture, (32) Tar roofing or waterproofing manufacture. (c) The prohibition of this section, however, shall not include emissions of the air contaminants in paragraph (a) when restricted to the following quantities: (1) cadmium--0.15 micrograms per cubic meter. (2) beryllium--10 nanograms per cubic meter. (3) mercury--0.1 microgram per cubic meter. (4) asbestos--27 nanograms per cubic meter.