Int 0181-1998

Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. Section 24-108 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding thereto a new subdivision g, to read as follows: (g)(1) The commissioner may inspect any vehicle transporting fuel oil, any fuel oil storage facility, and any fuel oil distribution facility within the city of New York, and may inspect any record relating to the use, origin, distribution, transportation, storage and constituents of such fuel oil. (2) The commissioner may obtain a sample of such fuel oil to test for its constituents. (3) If said fuel oil is determined to be in violation of the sulfur limitations as set forth in this code and the rules of the department, such fuel oil shall be seized, transported and stored at a facility certified to handle such fuel oil, pending notice and a hearing conducted before the environmental control board. Such seizure, transportion and storage shall be made at the expense, jointly and severally, of the owner of the fuel oil, the owner of the vehicle transporting the fuel oil at the time it was seized, the owner of the storage facility where such fuel oil was seized, and the owner of the distribution facility where such fuel oil was seized, which expense shall be determined and assessed at said hearing. �2. This local law shall take effect immediately. Referred to the Committee on Environmental Protection. Int. No. 69