§ 23-18.9-1. Responsibility for refuse disposal. (a)(1) Each city and town is required to make provision for the safe and sanitary disposal of all refuse which is generated within its boundaries, including refuse from commercial and industrial sources, but excluding refuse from sources owned or operated by the state or federal governments, hazardous waste as […]
§ 23-18.9-10. Penalties. (a) Criminal penalties. (1) Any person who constructs a solid waste management facility or construction and demolition (C&D) debris processing facility or installs equipment in the facility or expands the facility without first obtaining approval of the plans and specifications for the facility, or any person who operates the facility without obtaining […]
§ 23-18.9-11. Prosecution of violations — Relief in equity or by prerogative writ. (a) All prosecutions for the criminal violation of any provision of this chapter, or any rule or regulation made by the director in conformance with this chapter, shall be by indictment or information. The director, without being required to enter into any […]
§ 23-18.9-12. Records required. (a) Every private landfill operator shall keep a written record of the vehicles which unload cargo at the landfill. The record shall contain the date, the time, and the registration of the vehicle. The landfill operator shall upon request make the written record available for inspection by the department of environmental […]
§ 23-18.9-13. Notice of solid waste disposal. Whenever the director issues a notice of violation and order pursuant to this chapter that disposal of solid waste has occurred onto or into real property or in any landfill not permitted under the provisions of this chapter, the director shall cause the notice or a summary of […]
§ 23-18.9-14. Testing and analysis of air and water — Environmental management district. (a) Applicability. This section applies to all solid waste management facilities/activities regulated pursuant to this chapter that are undertaken within and in the vicinity of an area known as the environmental management district, located in the town of Johnston and the city […]
§ 23-18.9-15. Town of Richmond — Refuse disposal. The town of Richmond shall be empowered to promulgate reasonable rules and regulations governing tree stump disposal in the town of Richmond. History of Section.P.L. 2003, ch. 242, § 1.
§ 23-18.9-16. Beneficial reuse of solid waste. (a) The director may approve proposals for the environmentally beneficial reuse of solid waste in a municipality in order to save natural resources by providing alternative materials for projects that would otherwise use new materials and preserve landfill space by removing materials from the waste stream that would […]
§ 23-18.9-17. Food waste ban. (a) On and after January 1, 2016, each covered entity and each covered educational institution shall ensure that the organic-waste materials that are generated by the covered entity or at the covered educational facility are recycled at an authorized composting facility or anaerobic digestion facility or by another authorized recycling […]
§ 23-18.9-18. Reporting requirements. Each covered entity or covered educational institution shall keep a written record of the amount of solid waste it generates and the amount of organic waste material it recycles at composting or anaerobic digestion facilities. The covered entity or covered educational institution, upon request, shall make the written records available for […]
§ 23-18.9-2. Repealed.
§ 23-18.9-3. Grants-in-aid. (a) Funds annually appropriated by the general assembly for the purposes of this chapter shall not exceed forty cents ($.40) per capita as determined from the latest available federal census of population for the state. (b) Sixty-two and one-half percent (62.5%) of the total shall be apportioned to each community in the […]
§ 23-18.9-4. Restricted use of state financial assistance by local communities. (a) Any state financial assistance granted to a local community under the terms of this chapter shall be used solely in the design, construction, maintenance, and operation of refuse disposal facilities; provided, that the funds are used for the maintenance and operation of only […]
§ 23-18.9-5. Disposal of refuse at other than a licensed facility. (a) No person shall dispose of solid waste at other than a solid waste management facility licensed by the director, except as otherwise provided in this chapter. (b) The phrase “dispose of solid waste”, as prohibited in this section, refers to the depositing, casting, […]
§ 23-18.9-6. Repealed.
§ 23-18.9-7. Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall, where the context permits, be construed as follows: (1) “Beneficial reuse material” means a processed, nonhazardous, solid waste not already defined as recyclable material by this chapter and by regulations of the Rhode Island department of environmental management that the director has determined […]
§ 23-18.9-8. Licenses. (a)(1) No person shall operate any solid waste management facility or construction and demolition (C&D) debris processing facility or expand an existing facility unless a license is obtained from the director except as authorized by this section. The director shall have full power to make all rules and regulations establishing standards to […]
§ 23-18.9-8.1. Criteria for public and private licenses. (a) The director shall grant licenses only to those public facilities that the director determines meet all relevant criteria by regulation to protect human health and the environment and that are reasonably required to dispose of wastes generated within this state. All public projects shall meet the […]
§ 23-18.9-9. Application, approval and fees for licenses. (a)(1) Any person who desires to construct and/or operate a solid waste management facility or expand an existing facility shall apply to the director for all licenses and/or permits to do so; provided, however, that the application shall state all licenses and/or permits for which application is […]
§ 23-18.9-9.1. Disposal of solid waste over drinking water sources. (a) The general assembly recognizes and declares that disposal of solid waste on or in the ground overlying underground drinking water sources is not an environmentally sound solid waste management practice, and that such disposal could threaten the public health with contamination of existing and […]
