Tennessee Code 68-213-103 – Approval of landfill area location
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 68-213-103
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Department: means the department of environment and conservation. See Tennessee Code 68-213-102
- Governing body: means the governing body of every county in this state. See Tennessee Code 68-213-102
- Landfill area: means any land area selected for the purpose of solid waste disposal or solid waste material. See Tennessee Code 68-213-102
- Person: means any and all persons, natural or artificial, including any individual, firm or association, and municipal or private corporation organized or existing under the laws of this state or any other state, and any governmental agency or county of this state. See Tennessee Code 68-213-102
- Solid waste: means garbage, refuse, and other discarded solid materials, including solid waste materials resulting from industrial, commercial and agricultural operations, and all garbage, refuse or other discarded solid materials from individual homes, apartments, multiple dwellings, trailers or other living quarters, and from community activities, but does not include solids or dissolved material in domestic sewage or other significant pollutants in water resources, such as silt, dissolved or suspended solids in industrial waste water effluents, dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or other common water pollutants. See Tennessee Code 68-213-102
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
No landfill area for the disposal of solid waste materials in this state shall be constructed and no contract between any person or persons for the purpose of constructing or utilizing the same shall be completed or executed unless the location of the landfill area shall have been approved by the department and the governing body of the area in which the site is located. Should the department or the governing body disapprove of the site, no further action shall be taken in regard to the construction of a landfill area at that site.