34A-11-10. Notification of hazardous waste activity required--Civil penalty for violation.

Any person generating, transporting, treating, storing, or disposing of a hazardous waste shall file with the secretary of agriculture and natural resources a notification of hazardous waste activities. The notification shall be in accordance with rules promulgated pursuant to chapter 1-26 by the Board of Minerals and Environment. No hazardous waste subject to this chapter may be transported, treated, stored, or disposed of unless notification has been given as required in this chapter.

A violation of this section is subject to a civil penalty not to exceed ten thousand dollars per day of violation, or for damages to the environment of this state, or both.

Source: SL 1983, ch 262, § 10; SL 1992, ch 158, § 52; SL 1993, ch 256, § 36; SL 2005, ch 10, § 27; SL 2021, ch 1 (Ex. Ord. 21-3), § 53, eff. Apr. 19, 2021.