West Virginia Code 22-16-14 – Liability of owner or operator
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Nothing in this article relieves the owner, operator or permittee of a landfill of the legal duties, obligations or liabilities incident to the ownership or operation of a landfill, except that the performance by the director of any of the activities set forth in subsection (b), section three of this article relieves the operator from the requirement to perform such activities.
Terms Used In West Virginia Code 22-16-14
- Director: means the director of the Division of Environmental Protection or such other person to whom the director has delegated duties or authority pursuant to sections six or eight, article one of this chapter. See West Virginia Code 22-16-2
- Landfill: means any solid waste facility for the disposal of solid waste on land, and also means any system, facility, land, contiguous land, improvements on the land, structures or other appurtenances or methods used for processing, recycling or disposing of solid waste, including landfills, transfer stations, resource recovery facilities and other such facilities not herein specified. See West Virginia Code 22-16-2
- Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
- Permittee: means a person who has or should obtain a permit for a commercial solid waste facility that is a landfill. See West Virginia Code 22-16-2