[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of County Commissioners of
Worcester County 5-29-1984 as Bill No. 84-5. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this Subtitle, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Any person, firm or corporation who or which, for consideration,
transports solid waste to a solid waste facility and shall include
municipalities but shall not include persons hauling their solid waste
generated by such persons.
A license issued pursuant to this Subtitle.
Any solid waste facility owned or operated by the County
Commissioners.
Any landfill, dump or other area designated, operated or
utilized by the County Commissioners for the deposit of solid wastes.
All putrescible and nonputrescible waste materials which
are not gaseous or liquid. The term includes garbage, trash, rubbish,
ashes, incinerator residue, wastewater treatment residue, street cleanings,
dead animals, demolition and construction debris, household appliances,
automobile bodies, offal, paunch manure and solid wastes from commercial
or industrial activities.
(a)
Commercial hauler license required. It shall
be unlawful after July 1, 1984, for any commercial hauler to haul
to or deposit solid waste in a public landfill without a commercial
hauler license issued pursuant to this Subtitle.
(b)
Commissioners issue licenses. Commercial hauler
licenses shall be obtained from the County Commissioners.
(c)
Commissioners regulate activities. The County
Commissioners shall, by resolution, adopt regulations governing the
issuance of licenses hereunder, regulating the activities of commercial
haulers and generally implementing this Subtitle.
(a)
Term. Licenses shall be issued for a period
of one year.
(b)
Forms. Applications shall be made upon forms
provided by the County Commissioners.
(c)
Application fees. Applications fees shall
be as provided by resolution of the County Commissioners.
(d)
License fees. License fees shall be as provided
by resolution of the County Commissioners.
(e)
Exemptions. The Commissioners may exempt municipalities
and governmental agencies from application and license fees.
(f)
Denial of licenses. Licenses shall be issued
to all applicants, except that a license may be denied after notice
and hearing on the following grounds:
(g)
Display of license. All vehicles of commercial
haulers shall display such emblem as required by the County Commissioners.
(h)
Reporting requirements. Commercial haulers
shall file such reports as required by the County Commissioners.
(a)
Notice and hearing. A commercial hauler license
may be revoked or suspended by the County Commissioners after notice
and hearing.
At least thirty days prior written notice and a hearing before
the County Commissioners shall satisfy the notice and hearing requirements
of this Subtitle.
[Amended 11-10-1987 by Bill No. 87-5]
Any person who violates the provisions of this Subtitle or any
rule or regulation adopted pursuant hereto shall be guilty of a civil
infraction.
(a)
Scavenging prohibited. It is prohibited to
scavenge in or from any public landfill or to extract, collect, gather
or remove any material, matter or waste of whatsoever kind, nature
or description therefrom except as may be specifically authorized
by resolution of the County Commissioners.
(b)
Compliance with operating procedures. It is
hereby prohibited for any person to place, deposit, dump or leave
any solid waste material, matter or waste of whatsoever kind, nature
or description in or at any public landfill which is prohibited therefrom
under the current operating procedures of such public landfill.
(c)
Waste areas designated. Persons depositing
materials, debris, solid waste or other matter in any public landfill
shall deposit such matter in the appropriate areas as designated for
such matter under the current operating procedures of the specific
public landfill.
(d)
Out-of-county wastes prohibited. No solid
waste collected outside of Worcester County shall be deposited in
any public landfill.
(e)
Hazardous wastes prohibited. It is unlawful
to deposit, dump or unload any hazardous waste of any kind, including
biological, radioactive or chemical, as may from time to time be defined
as such by resolution of the County Commissioners or by any state
law or regulation, in any public landfill in Worcester County.