Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 65-3424a

  • Disposal: means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking or placing of any solid waste into or on any land or water so that such solid waste or any constituent thereof may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any water. See Kansas Statutes 65-3402
  • Person: means individual, partnership, firm, trust, company, association, corporation, individual or individuals having controlling or majority interest in a corporation, institution, political subdivision, state agency or federal department or agency. See Kansas Statutes 65-3402
  • Retailer: means any business that: (1) Is registered for purposes of the Kansas retailers sales tax act and provides drycleaning, or drycleaning and laundry, services to final consumers; or (2) has provided a drycleaning, or drycleaning and laundry, facility with a resale exemption certificate and is responsible for charging and collecting retailers' sales tax from final consumers of drycleaning or laundry services. See Kansas Statutes 65-34,142
  • Secretary: means the secretary of health and environment. See Kansas Statutes 65-3402
  • Solid waste: means garbage, refuse, waste tires as defined by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 65-3402
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201

No person shall:

(a) Maintain an illegal waste tire accumulation;

(b) transfer ownership of waste tires to any person unless the recipient: (1) Has been issued a permit by the secretary pursuant to Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-3407, and amendments thereto, or Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-3424b, and amendments thereto; (2) intends to use the waste tires for a beneficial use; or (3) is a tire retailer who collects waste tires from the public or other tire retailers in the ordinary course of business;

(c) deposit waste tires in a landfill as a method of ultimate disposal, except that the secretary may authorize, by rules and regulations or by permits issued pursuant to Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-3407, and amendments thereto: (A) The final disposal of processed waste tires at permitted municipal solid waste landfills and permitted waste tire monofills; (B) the final disposal of contaminated whole, unprocessed waste tires at permitted municipal solid waste landfills and permitted waste tire monofills; (C) the use of waste tires in their original state as part of or supplemental to a proven and approved leachate collection system at a landfill; (D) the use of waste tires which have been cut into two or more parts as daily cover material for a landfill; or (E) the final disposal of small numbers of whole, unprocessed waste tires in landfills if such tires are intermingled with other solid waste and retrieval of such tires would be hazardous; or

(d) receive money in exchange for waste tires unless: (A) The person holds a permit issued by the secretary pursuant to Kan. Stat. Ann. §§ 65-3407 or 65-3424b, and amendments thereto; or (B) the person is a tire retailer who collects waste tires from the public or from other tire retailers in the ordinary course of business.