2010 New York Code
ENV - Environmental Conservation
Article 23 - MINERAL RESOURCES
Title 3 - (23-0301 - 23-0313) GENERAL PROVISIONS
23-0301 - Declaration of policy.

§ 23-0301. Declaration of policy.
    It  is  hereby  declared  to be in the public interest to regulate the
  development, production and utilization of natural resources of oil  and
  gas  in  this state in such a manner as will prevent waste; to authorize
  and to provide  for  the  operation  and  development  of  oil  and  gas
  properties  in such a manner that a greater ultimate recovery of oil and
  gas may be had, and that the correlative rights of all  owners  and  the
  rights of all persons including landowners and the general public may be
  fully  protected,  and to provide in similar fashion for the underground
  storage  of  gas,  the  solution  mining   of   salt   and   geothermal,
  stratigraphic and brine disposal wells.