2020 Senate Bill 949

Mandate riparian property environmental contamination risk assessments

Introduced in the Senate

June 2, 2020

Introduced by Sen. Rosemary Bayer (D-12)

To mandate that all owners of docks, wharfs, piers, jetties or seawalls used for commercial or industrial purposes submit an assessment of environmental contamination every five years, prepared by a paid environmental consultant who is a licensed professional engineer, and do this every three years if the property is deemed “high risk” for environmental contamination.

Referred to the Committee on Environmental Quality