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Utah Code Title 19. Environmental Quality Code § 19-6-507. Flow control for solid waste prohibited--Exceptions

Current as of May 05, 2022 | Updated by FindLaw Staff

(1) Except as provided in Subsection (2), a public entity may not require solid waste discarded or rejected within the public entity's jurisdiction to be stored, recovered, or disposed of at a solid waste management facility owned or operated by a public entity.

(2) A public entity may require solid waste discarded or rejected within the public entity's jurisdiction to be stored, recovered, or disposed of at a solid waste management facility owned or operated by a public entity if:

(a) the solid waste is municipal residential waste;

(b) no more than one landfill that may take the solid waste exists within:

(i) the public entity's jurisdiction;  and

(ii) 125 miles outside the public entity's jurisdiction, as measured from the landfill's primary entrance by following the shortest route of ordinary travel by motor vehicle;  or

(c) the solid waste management facility owned or operated by the public entity receives less than 75 tons of solid waste per day.

(3) A requirement described in Subsection (1) that is:

(a) in effect on January 1, 2008 is void as of January 1, 2013;  and

(b) adopted on or after January 2, 2008 and in effect on May 4, 2008 is void as of May 5, 2008.

(4) A person engaged in solid waste management that is aggrieved by a violation of this section may seek judicial review of the violation in a court of competent jurisdiction.

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