Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1703 – Purposes
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Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1703
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Resource conservation: means the reduction of amounts of solid waste which is generated and the reduction of overall resource consumption. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1705
- Resource recovery: means the recovery of materials or substances that still have useful physical or chemical properties after serving a specific purpose and can be reused or recycled for the same or other purposes and the conversion of waste to energy. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1705
- Solid waste: means useless, unwanted or discarded, nonhazardous solid materials with insufficient liquid content to be free flowing, including, but not limited to, rubbish, garbage, scrap materials, junk, refuse, inert fill material and landscape refuse. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1705
The purposes of each district formed under this chapter are to construct, maintain, operate or otherwise provide for a system of solid waste management for domestic, commercial and industrial solid waste and, in conjunction, to foster resource conservation and resource recovery for public purposes and for the health, welfare, comfort and convenience of the inhabitants of the district. It is anticipated that, in the furtherance of the purpose and declaration of policy of this Act, each district may contract and otherwise act in conjunction with a variety of public, private and municipal firms, corporations and persons. [PL 1983, c. 820, §2 (NEW).]
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PL 1983, c. 820, §2 (NEW).