Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2156

  • Secretary: means the secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2004
  • Solid waste: means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include or mean solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges which are point sources subject to permits under La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2153

No landowner shall be held responsible, by an order of the secretary or the courts, for removal or the cost of removal of solid waste which has been disposed of on his land by the act of a third party without his knowledge or consent or by a fortuitous event.  The burden of proof shall rest with the landowner.  The provisions of this Section shall not apply to any land located within the corporate limits of a municipality.  

Acts 1988, No. 950, §1, eff. July 27, 1988.