(a) No person, including any public body, shall engage in the operation of an open dump.

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 342H-30

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
  • Director: means the director of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342H-1
  • Disposal: means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any solid waste onto any land or water so that such solid waste, or any constituent thereof, may enter the environment, be emitted into the air, or discharged into any water, including ground waters. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342H-1
  • Open dump: means a disposal site that is operating in nonconformance with applicable standards, relevant permit conditions, rules, or this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342H-1
  • Person: means any individual, partnership, firm, association, public or private corporation, federal agency, the State or any of its political subdivisions, trust, estate, or any other legal entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342H-1
  • Solid waste: means garbage, refuse, and other discarded materials, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous materials resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations, sludge from waste treatment plants and water supply treatment plants, and residues from air pollution control facilities and community activities, but does not include solid or dissolved materials in domestic sewage or other substances in water sources such as silt, dissolved or suspended solids in industrial waste water effluents, dissolved materials in irrigation return flows, or other common water pollutants, or source, special nuclear, or by-product material as defined by the federal Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (68 Stat. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342H-1
  • Solid waste management system: means a system for the storage, processing, treatment, transfer, or disposal of solid waste. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342H-1
  • Waste: means sewage, industrial and agricultural matter, and all other liquid, gaseous, or solid substance, including radioactive substance, whether treated or not, which may pollute or tend to pollute the atmosphere, lands or waters of this State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342H-1
(b) No person, including any public body, shall operate a solid waste management system without first securing approval in writing from the director.
(c) No person, including any public body, shall discard, dispose of, deposit, discharge, or dump solid waste, or by contract or otherwise arrange directly or indirectly for the disposal of solid waste in an amount equal to or greater than one cubic yard in volume anywhere other than a permitted solid waste management system without the prior written approval of the director. Each day of violation shall constitute a separate offense. This prohibition shall not be deemed to supersede any other disposal prohibitions established under federal, state, or county law, regulation, rule, or ordinance.

  Previous
Next  
 Part II Contents