(a)  No person, firm, corporation, partnership, or association shall engage in the business of pumping, cleaning, and/or transporting septage, industrial wastes, or oil waste unless a license is obtained from the department of environmental management.

Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 23-19.4-1

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • in writing: include printing, engraving, lithographing, and photo-lithographing, and all other representations of words in letters of the usual form. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-16
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6

(b)  Any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association who desires to engage in such a business shall submit in writing in such form as is required by the department, an application for a license to engage therein.

History of Section.
P.L. 1970, ch. 238, § 1; P.L. 1978, ch. 131, § 4; G.L. 1956, § 23-49-1; P.L. 1979, ch. 39, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 23-19.4-1.