ECL 37-0119 · Title 1. Substances Hazardous to the Environment
Prohibition against certain uses of trichloroethylene
Text — Law content up to date as of October 30, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation)
* § 37-0119. Prohibition against certain uses of trichloroethylene.
1. No person shall use trichloroethylene as a vapor degreaser, an intermediate chemical to produce other chemicals, a refrigerant, or an extraction solvent or in any other manufacturing or industrial cleaning process or use.
2. For purposes of this section:
(a) "Extraction solvent" means a solvent used to separate a specific substance from a mixture.
(b) "Refrigerant" means a chemical that is used as a heat carrier in a cooling mechanism and that changes from liquid to gas and back again in the refrigeration cycle.
(c) "Trichloroethylene" means a chemical with the Chemical Registry Abstract Services Number of 79-01-6.
(d) "Vapor degreaser" means a substance boiled to a vapor that condenses onto metal parts, causing beading and dripping, and that removes contaminants from the parts.
3. Severability. The provisions of this section shall be severable and if any portion thereof or the applicability thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of this section and the application thereof shall not be affected thereby.
* NB There are 2 § 37-0119's
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- Law content up to date as of October 30, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation)
- Official file
- https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/laws/ENV37-0119
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- gen_ny_statutes.py 2026-11-10: the Senate's Open Legislation law tree (GET /api/3/laws/<ID>?full=true) read in document order; the Senate's PDF of the whole law (GET /pdf/laws/<ID>?full=true), read with PDFium, prints the same words in the same order
- The Senate's note "There are 2 § 37-0119's": the Legislature enacted more than one unit under that number; each is printed.
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