1. The report of the public authorities having by law charge of the sewer system of every municipality in the state, from which sewer system sewage was being discharged into any of the waters of the state on May 7, 1903, transmitted by the board of health of the municipality within which any sewer outlet of the said sewer system is located to the commissioner and filed by him in his office, shall constitute the evidence of exemption from the prohibition of section 17-1701.

2. No sewer system shall be exempt from the prohibition of said section against the discharge of sewage into the waters of the state for which a satisfactory report shall not have been filed in the office of the commissioner in accordance with chapter 468 of the laws of 1903.

* NB Expired September 1, 1973