Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2423

  • Assistant secretary: means the assistant secretary to whom a given function or responsibility has been allocated by this Subtitle or delegated by the secretary. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2004
  • Person: means an individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, corporation (including a government corporation), partnership, association, state, municipality, commission, political subdivision of a state, an interstate body, or the federal government or any agency of the federal government. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2412
  • Recycling: means any process by which nonhazardous solid waste, or materials which would otherwise become solid waste, are collected, separated, or processed and reused or returned to use in the form of raw materials or products. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2412
  • Secretary: means the secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2004
  • Violation: means a failure to comply with the requirements of this Subtitle, the rules issued under this Subtitle, and conditions of permits under this Subtitle. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2004

A.  No person engaged in the business of recycling may purchase or have in his possession aluminum materials consisting of official highway signs or signals that provide traffic information, control, or directions or highway guard rails unless such purchase or possession is accompanied by an act of sale from the public entity which owns such materials.

B.  Any person found to be in violation of this Section may be liable for a civil penalty, to be assessed by the secretary, the assistant secretary for the office of environmental compliance, or the court, of not more than five hundred dollars.

Acts 1990, No. 682, §1; Acts 1999, No. 303, §1, eff. June 14, 1999.