[Adopted 12-7-1973]
Whenever in this article the following terms are used, they
shall have the following meanings:
The Board of Selectmen of the Town of Lyme.
The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection or
his authorized agent.
The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
The local governing body having legal jurisdiction over solid
waste management within its corporate limits.
Solid waste collection from the residents of the Town of
Lyme.
Any town, city, or borough within the State of Connecticut.
Useless, unwanted or discarded solid materials, not excluding
semisolid and liquid materials other than sewage collected and treated
in a municipal sewerage system, but shall not include scrap metals
held for reuse or resale by a scrap metal dealer.
The Board of Selectmen, Town of Lyme, is appointed as the local
governing body having legal jurisdiction over the management of solid
wastes within its corporate boundaries.
[Amended 12-10-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-4]
The Board of Selectmen shall make provisions for the safe and
sanitary disposal of all solid wastes which are generated within its
boundaries, including septic tank pumpings and solid wastes from commercial
and industrial sources but excluding industrial wastes which are toxic,
hazardous to handle or may cause contamination of groundwater and
surface water. Such disposal may be in areas within its own boundaries
or arrangements may be made for disposing of these wastes in any other
municipality. The method of disposal of toxic or hazardous wastes
shall be approved by the Commissioner.
The Board of Selectmen may make contracts for the exercise of
its corporate powers with respect to the collection, transportation,
volume reduction and disposal of its solid wastes for a period not
exceeding 20 years.
The invalidity of any word, clause, sentence, section, part
or provision of this article shall not affect the validity of any
other part which can be given effect without such invalid part or
parts.
