Section 1102. Violation; injunction and abatement  


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  • 1. If any inspection
      discloses a violation of any rule or regulation promulgated pursuant  to
      section one thousand one hundred of this chapter relating to a temporary
      or permanent source or act of contamination, the person, officer, board,
      or  commission  having  the  management and control of the potable water
      supply of the municipality, state or United  States  institution,  park,
      reservation  or  post,  and in the city of New York, the commissioner of
      environmental protection, and the board of water supply of the  city  of
      New  York,  or the corporation furnishing such supply shall cause a copy
      of the rule  or  regulation  violated  to  be  served  upon  the  person
      violating  the  same,  with  a  notice  of such violation. If the person
      served does not comply immediately with the rule or regulation violated,
      such person, officer, board, corporation or commission, except in a case
      concerning the violation of a rule or regulation relating to a temporary
      or permanent source or act of contamination affecting the potable  water
      supply  of  the  city  of  New  York, shall notify the department of the
      violation.
        2. (a) Upon being notified of any violation as  herein  provided,  the
      department  shall  examine  immediately  into such violation; and if the
      department finds such rule or regulation  to  have  been  violated,  the
      commissioner  shall  order  the  local  board  of  health  of the health
      district wherein the violation or noncompliance occurs, to  convene  and
      enforce compliance with such rule or regulation.
        (b)  If  the  local board of health of the health district wherein the
      violation or noncompliance occurs, fails to enforce  the  order  of  the
      commissioner   within  ten  days  after  its  receipt,  the  corporation
      furnishing such water supply  or  the  municipality,  state,  or  United
      States  or state or United States institution, park, reservation or post
      deriving its water  supply  from  the  waters  to  which  such  rule  or
      regulation relates, or the commissioner, or the local board of health of
      the health district wherein the water supply protected by these rules is
      used,  or  any  person interested in the protection of the purity of the
      water supply, may maintain an action in a court of record which shall be
      tried in the county where the cause of action arose against such person,
      for the recovery of the penalties incurred by such violation, and for an
      injunction restraining the person violating such rule or regulation from
      the continued violation thereof.
        3. (a) If the person served with notice of violation does  not  comply
      within five days with the rule or regulation violated, in case such rule
      or  regulation  relates  to  a  temporary  or permanent source or act of
      contamination affecting the potable water supply  of  the  city  of  New
      York,  the commissioner of environmental protection of said city, or the
      board of water supply of the city of New  York,  may  summarily  enforce
      compliance  with  such  rule  or  regulation  and may summarily abate or
      remove the cause of the violation of such  rule  or  regulation  or  the
      nuisance  so  created,  and  to that end may employ such force as may be
      necessary and proper; provided, however, that no building or improvement
      shall be removed, disturbed or destroyed by  the  said  commissioner  of
      environmental  protection  or the said board of water supply until he or
      they  shall  cause  measurements  to  be  made  of  the  buildings   and
      photographs  of  the  exterior  views  thereof,  which  measurements and
      photographs shall be at the disposition  thereafter  of  the  owners  or
      their  attorneys,  and failure to exercise such right of abatement shall
      not be deemed a waiver thereof.
        (b) Failure to comply within five days with such  rule  or  regulation
      shall  further entitle the city of New York to maintain an action in any
      court having jurisdiction thereof for  the  recovery  of  the  penalties
      incurred  by  such  violation  in  an  amount  authorized by section one
    
      thousand  one  hundred  three  of  this  title  and  for  an  injunction
      restraining  the  person  from  violating  such  rule  or regulation, or
      creating or continuing such nuisance. The  remedy  by  abatement  herein
      provided for shall not be construed to be exclusive.