(1) A county or waste management district may employ an enforcement representative to ensure compliance with applicable administrative regulations of the cabinet relating to construction and operation of solid waste management facilities. The local government representative shall have the authority to inspect loads of solid waste and prevent any loads, which fail to comply with administrative regulations, from being disposed of at the solid waste management facility. The local government representative shall possess at least minimum qualifications required of representatives of the cabinet performing similar functions.
(2) The cabinet shall adopt administrative regulations for local government inspection of solid waste management facilities and enforcement procedures. The administrative regulations shall include but not be limited to, requiring local enforcement representatives to report violations of state solid waste management facilities laws and administrative regulations immediately to the cabinet and requiring the cabinet to respond to the report within forty-eight (48) hours of its receipt.

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 109.042

  • Cabinet: means the Energy and Environment Cabinet. See Kentucky Statutes 109.012
  • Local government: means a city, county, urban-county government, charter county government, consolidated local government, or unified local government or a solid waste management district created pursuant to KRS Chapter 109. See Kentucky Statutes 109.012
  • Solid waste: means any garbage, refuse, sludge, and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining (excluding coal mining waste, coal mining by-
    products, refuse and overburden), agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include those materials including but not limited to sand, soil, rock, gravel, or bridge debris extracted as part of a public road construction project funded wholly or in part with state funds, recovered material, post-use polymers or recovered feedstocks as those terms are defined in KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 109.012
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Waste management district: means any county or group of counties electing to form under the provisions of KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 109.012

(3) A county or waste management district which elects to implement a local inspection and enforcement program for solid waste management facilities may finance the program from the license fees provided for in KRS § 68.178.
Effective: February 26, 1991
History: Amended 1991 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 12, sec. 31, effective February
26, 1991. — Created 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 45, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1988.

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