71-4401 - Definitions.

§ 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.