2017 New York Laws
ENV - Environmental Conservation
Article 25 - Tidal Wetlands
Title 1 - General Provisions and Public Policy
25-0103 - Definitions.

25-0103. Definitions.
1. "Tidal wetlands" shall mean and include the following:
(a)  those areas which border on or lie beneath tidal waters, such as,
  but not limited to, banks, bogs, salt marsh, swamps, meadows,  flats  or
  other  low  lands  subject to tidal action, including those areas now or
  formerly connected to tidal waters;
(b) all banks, bogs, meadows, flats and tidal marsh  subject  to  such
  tides,  and  upon  which  grow or may grow some or any of the following:
  salt hay (Spartina patens and Distichlis spicata), black  grass  (Juncus
  Gerardi),   saltworts   (Salicornia   ssp.),   sea   lavender  (Limonium
  carolinianum),  tall  cordgrass   (Spartina   pectinata   and   Spartina
  cynosuroides),   hightide   bush   (Iva   frutescens),  cattails  (Typha
  angustifolia and Typha latifolia), groundsel  (Baccharis  halmilifolia),
  marsh  mallow (Hybiscus palustris) and the intertidal zone including low
  marsh cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora).
2.  "Commissioner"  shall  mean  the  commissioner  of   environmental
  conservation.
3.   "Pollution"  shall  mean  the  presence  in  the  environment  of
  conditions or contaminants in quantities or characteristics which are or
  may be injurious to human, plant, or marine  life,  wildlife,  or  other
  animal  life,  or  to property, or which unreasonably interfere with the
  comfortable  enjoyment  of  life  and  property  throughout  such  tidal
  wetlands as may be affected thereby.
4.  "Person" shall mean any individual, public or private corporation,
  political subdivision, government agency, department or  bureau  of  the
  state,   bi-state  authority,  municipality,  industry,  co-partnership,
  association, firm, trust, estate or any other legal entity whatsoever.
5. "Municipality" shall mean a village, town, city or county.