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a. The following terms, as used in this section, shall have the following meanings:
1. A "dwelling" is any building or structure or portion thereof which is occupied in whole or in part as the home, residence or sleeping place of one or more human beings.
2. A "private dwelling" is any building or structure designed and occupied for residential purposes by not more than two families. Private dwellings shall also be deemed to include a series of one-family or two-family dwelling units each of which faces or is accessible to a legal street or public thoroughfare, if each such dwelling unit is equipped as a separate dwelling unit with all essential services, and if each such unit is arranged so that it may be approved as a legal one-family or two-family dwelling.
3. A "multiple dwelling" is a dwelling which is either rented, leased, let or hired out, to be occupied, or is occupied, as the residence or home of three or more families living independently of each other. A multiple dwelling shall also include residential quarters for members of personnel of any hospital staff which are not located in any building used primarily for hospital use, but any building which was erected, altered or converted prior to July first, nineteen hundred fifty-five, to be occupied by such members or personnel or is so occupied on such date shall not be subject to the requirements of the housing maintenance code only so long as it continues to be so occupied if there are local laws applicable to such building and such building is in compliance with such local laws. A multiple dwelling does not include (i) a hospital, convent, monastery, asylum or public institution; or (ii) a fireproof building used wholly for commercial purposes except for not more than one janitor's apartment and not more than one penthouse occupied by not more than two families.
4. The term "putrescible solid waste" shall mean solid waste containing organic matter having the tendency to decompose with the formation of malodorous by-products.
b. Food waste disposals for the discharge of putrescible food wastes from dwelling units may be installed in private dwellings and multiple dwellings, provided that:
1. all putrescible food wastes discharged to a sanitary sewer or to a combined storm and sanitary sewer are discharged in fluid form and at a reasonably uniform rate so as to prevent clogging or stoppage of the drain line, sanitary sewer or combined storm and sanitary sewer;
2. the installation of such food waste disposals is approved by the department of buildings and is in compliance with applicable provisions of the administrative code.
(Am. L.L. 2023/067, 5/29/2023, eff. 6/28/2023)
Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at L.L. 1995/074 and L.L. 1997/071.
It shall be unlawful to use any connection with, opening into, or gutter leading into, any sewer or drain, either public or private, for the conveyance or discharge, directly or indirectly, into such sewer or drain, of any volatile flammable liquid, gas or vapor. A volatile, flammable liquid is any liquid that will emit a flammable vapor at a temperature specified in rules of the department.
(Am. L.L. 2017/097, 5/30/2017, eff. 6/29/2017)
a. It shall be unlawful to discharge waste water into any sewer at a temperature higher than that prescribed by the commissioner of environmental protection.
b. It shall be unlawful to use a connection with or opening into any sewer or drain for the conveyance or discharge of steam or hot water at a temperature above that prescribed by such commissioner into such sewer or drain, or to discharge steam, or permit it to escape into any sewer, drain, or public street, from any stopcock, valve or other opening in any steam pipe or main.
c. The commissioner of environmental protection, upon the expiration of five days after notice, shall discontinue the discharge of steam or hot water from any connection, cancel the permit for such connection and close up and remove the same, if the discharge of steam or hot water therefrom shall not have been discontinued.
a. For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
Allowable runoff. The term "allowable runoff" means runoff authorized by the rules of the department of environmental protection to enter storm sewers, provided that such rules shall be consistent with the proper maintenance and purpose of such storm sewers and with the state pollutant discharge elimination system (SPDES) permit for municipal separate storm sewer systems of New York city, SPDES No. NY-0287890 or its successor.
Storm sewer. The term "storm sewer" means a sewer, the primary purpose of which is to carry stormwater.
b. No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged, directly or indirectly, into any storm sewer any substance other than stormwater or allowable runoff. Rules governing allowable runoff may require practices and procedures related to such discharges in furtherance of this section. Such rules may also require approval by the department of such discharges.
c. For purposes of this section, indirect discharges include but are not limited to discharges to any street, gutter, or other conveyance that could reasonably lead to a storm sewer.
(L.L. 2017/097, 5/30/2017, eff. 6/29/2017)
a. Notice to public service corporations. Whenever any sewer, culvert, water main or pipe is to be constructed, altered or repaired in any street in which the pipes, mains or conduits of public service corporations are laid, the contractor therefor shall give notice thereof in writing to such corporations, at least forty-eight hours before breaking ground therefor. Such provision shall be included in every contract for constructing, altering or repairing any sewer or culvert, water main or pipe, in any street in which the pipes, mains or conduits of public service corporations shall be laid at the time of making such contract.
b. Public service corporations shall protect their property. Public service corporations whose pipes, mains or conduits are about to be disturbed by the constructing, altering or repairing of any sewer, culvert, water main or pipe, shall, on the receipt of the notice provided for in the preceding subdivision, remove or otherwise protect and replace their pipes, mains and conduits, and all fixtures and appliances connected therewith or attached thereto, where necessary, under the direction of the commissioner of design and construction in accordance with chapter fifty-five of the charter, unless otherwise directed by the mayor pursuant to such chapter.
Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at L.L. 1993/104 and L.L. 1995/077.
a. As used in this section:
1. The term "private sewer or drain" shall mean any private sewer or drain located in public property or in any public or private street or streets and emptying into the public sewer system, but shall not include a curb-to-sewer connection as defined in section 24-512 of the code or a house sewer connection.
2. The term "private street" shall mean a privately owned street in which the public has a right of user not subject to revocation by the owner thereof.
b. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, it shall be the duty of the department of environmental protection to control, maintain, supervise and repair, and to inspect periodically, private sewers or drains as defined in subdivision a hereof, provided, however, that the department shall have no obligation or duty to replace or reconstruct any such sewer or drain. The cost of such control, maintenance, supervision, repair and inspection shall be borne by the city, within the amounts duly appropriated therefor.
c. Right of entry.
1. The commissioner of environmental protection, his or her deputies and any other officers and employees of the department of environmental protection, when authorized by such commissioner, may enter upon public or private property and bring in necessary equipment at reasonable hours, for the purpose of exercising the powers or performing the duties of the department under this section. Refusal to permit such entry or equipment shall be punishable as provided in section 24-524 of this chapter.
2. The owner of any parcel of real property connected to the public sewer system, as a condition precedent to the continuance of such connection, and the owner of any parcel of real property who makes application or causes an application to be made on his or her behalf for connection with the public sewer system, as a condition precedent to the granting of permission for such connection, shall be deemed to have consented and agreed that the commissioner of environmental protection and his or her deputies and such other officers or employees of the department of environmental protection as are authorized by such commissioner may, without fee or hindrance, enter the premises connected with the sewer system, or any part thereof and bring in any necessary equipment at proper or reasonable hours for the purpose of exercising the powers and duties of such department prescribed by this section.
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