Section 71-4401. Definitions

As  used  in  this title, the following terms shall have the following
  meanings:
    1. "Regulated medical waste" means regulated medical waste as  defined
  in title 15 of article 27 of this chapter.
    2. "Pound" means an avoirdupois pound.
    3.  "Gallon"  means  a  unit  of  liquid capacity equal to two hundred
  thirty-one cubic inches or four quarts.
    4. "Environment" means any water, water vapor, any land including land
  surface or subsurface, air, fish, wildlife, biota, and all other natural
  resources.
    5. "Release"  means  any  pumping,  pouring,  emitting,  emptying,  or
  leaching,  directly  or indirectly, of a substance so that the substance
  or any related constituent thereof, or any degradation product of such a
  substance  or  of  a  related  constituent  thereof,   may   enter   the
  environment, or the disposal of any substance.
    6.  "Disposal"  means  the  discharge,  deposit,  injection,  dumping,
  spilling, leaking or placing of any substance so that such substance  or
  any  related  constituent  thereof  may  enter  the  environment, or the
  abandonment of any substance.
    7. "Abandonment" means the intentional relinquishment or forsaking  of
  all  possession  or  control  of any substance. In any prosecution under
  this title, it is an affirmative defense to an allegation of abandonment
  that the defendant surrendered possession or control of  such  substance
  to  another party who knowingly and voluntarily consented to assume such
  possession or control.
    8. "Intentionally,  knowingly,  recklessly  and  criminal  negligence"
  shall  have  the  same meanings as defined in section 15.05 of the penal
  law.
    9. "Criminal transaction" shall have the same meaning  as  defined  in
  section 40.10 of the criminal procedure law.