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A BILL to amend and reenact sections two and three, article twenty- three, chapter seventeen of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended; to amend and reenact article twenty-four of said chapter; to amend and reenact section eight, article eleven, chapter twenty of said code; to amend article fifteen, chapter twenty-two of said code by adding thereto a new section, designated section twenty-one; and to amend chapter twenty-four-a of said code by adding thereto a new article, designated article two-a, all relating generally to waste tires; prohibiting collection, accumulation or storage of waste tires in salvage yards; providing for exceptions; defining terms; establishing legislative findings and policy regarding urgent need for remediation of waste tire piles; creating definitions; prohibiting placing, depositing or abandoning waste tires on public or private property; creating exceptions for waste tire monofills, solid waste facilities and other businesses authorized to accept or process waste tires; providing for enforcement as illegal open dump; authorizing the division of highways to administer funds for waste tire remediation; authorizing the commissioner of the division of highways to contract with public and private entities to carry out the requirements of the act; powers and duties of the commissioner; authorizing promulgation of rules; time disposal at division of highways county headquarters; collection fee for tires; providing for the disposal of waste tires; levying temporary tire disposal tax to be collected by tax commissioner; creating tire remediation/environmental cleanup fund; authorizing proceeds of waste tire sales to be deposited into fund; providing for a performance review; authorizing remedies; making property owner responsible for waste tires on property; assessing costs of remediation; creating lien to recover cost of remediation; authorizing injunctive relief; establishing authority of commissioner of bureau for public health; providing for liberal construction; licensing and manifest requirements; authorizing disposal of waste tires collected in a remediation effort in solid waste facilities; providing that waste tires from remediation not subject to tipping fees or tonnage limits; requiring solid waste facilities to accept waste tires; authorizing reasonable fees; providing that waste tires from remediation or cleanup projects may only be deposited in a solid waste facility when there is no other alternative available; requiring tire retailers to accept a waste tire for each new tire sold; authorizing disposal fee; requiring purchaser to leave waste tires with retailer or sign waiver; posting of signs; prohibiting accumulation of waste tires without a permit; prohibiting disposal of waste tires except at facility with valid permit; prohibiting transportation of waste tires to facility without permit; prohibiting open burning of tires; requiring persons transporting waste tires for compensation to have a certificate of convenience and necessity; reporting requirements; and authorizing public service commission to promulgate rules.
That sections two and three, article twenty-three, chapter seventeen of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended and reenacted; that article twenty-four of said chapter be amended and reenacted; that section eight, article eleven, chapter twenty of said code be amended and reenacted; that article fifteen, chapter twenty-two of said code be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section twenty- one; and that chapter twenty-four-a of said code be amended by adding thereto a new article, designated article two-a, all to read as follows:
(a) "Abandoned salvage yard" means any unlicenced salvage yard or any salvage yard that was previously licensed but upon which the license has not been renewed for more than one year.
(e) "Owner or operator" includes an individual, firm, partnership, association or corporation or the plural combination thereof.
(f) "Residential community" means an area wherein in which five or more occupied private residences are located within any one thousand foot radius.
(h) "Salvage yard" means any place which is maintained, operated or used for the storing, keeping, buying, selling or processing of salvage, or for the operation and maintenance of a motor vehicle graveyard: Provided, That a salvage yard shall not accept, store or process more than one hundred waste tires unless it has all of the permits necessary to operate a monofill, waste tire processing facility or solid waste facility. Any salvage yard which currently has on its premises more than one hundred waste tires not on a vehicle shall establish a plan in conjunction with the division of environmental protection for the proper disposal of the waste tires.
(i) "Waste tire" means any continuous solid or pneumatic rubber covering designed to encircle the wheel of a vehicle but which has been discarded, abandoned or is no longer suitable for its original, intended purpose nor suitable for recapping, or other beneficial use, as defined in section two, article twenty-four, chapter seventeen of this code, because of wear, damage or defect. A tire is no longer considered to be suitable for its original intended purpose when it fails to meet the minimum requirements to pass a West Virginia motor vehicle safety inspection. Used tires located at a commercial recapping facility or tire dealer for the purpose of being reused or recapped are not waste tires.
No salvage yard or any part thereof of a salvage yard shall be established, operated or maintained without a state license. The commissioner shall have has the sole authority to issue such a state license and he or she shall charge therefore a fee of two hundred dollars for the license payable annually in advance. The commissioner shall not issue a license to any salvage yard that contains more than one hundred waste tires which are not mounted on wheels on vehicles or machines unless the salvage yard has received a license, permit or approval from the division of environmental protection for storage, use or processing of waste tires or has entered into an agreement with the division of environmental protection for the proper disposal of the waste tires. All licenses issued under this section shall expire on the first day of January following the date of issuance. A license may be renewed from year to year upon paying the commissioner the sum of two hundred dollars for each such renewal. All such renewal license fees collected under the provisions of this article shall be deposited in the special fund provided for in section ten of this article.
(a) The Legislature affirmatively finds and declares that the location and number of waste tires, as defined in section two of this article, are directly related to the efficiency of travel, by citizens, visitors and of commerce, along public highways in West Virginia. In particular, the Legislature recognizes that waste tires are widespread in location and in number throughout the state; waste tires physically touch and concern public highways, including, but not limited to, state roads, county roads, park roads, secondary routes and orphan roads; waste tires reach and exist within rights-of-way owned by the state, which are adjacent to public highways and used by the division of highways to maintain and service said the highways; the state orphan roads program within the division of highways faces obstacles to complete development due to the location and number of waste tires; the existence of waste tires along and near public highways increases the likelihood of motor vehicle accidents, personal injury, property damage, death and destruction along public highways, all of which interferes with the efficiency of public highways; the existence of waste tires along and near public highways is sometimes accompanied by other hazards such as junk equipment, junk motor vehicle parts, litter, rodents and other animal life, all of which appreciably increase the likelihood of motor vehicle accidents, personal injury, property damage, death and destruction and, in turn, adversely impacts the proper maintenance and efficiency of public highways for citizens, visitors and the flow of commerce; removal of waste tires would increase the efficiency of travel along public highways by citizens, visitors and of commerce.
(b) The Legislature recognizes and declares that waste tires are a public nuisance and hazard to both adults and children and therefore are dangerous; that waste tires serve as harborage and breeding places for rodents, mosquitoes, fleas, ticks and other insects and pests injurious to the public health, safety and general welfare; that waste tires collected in large piles pose an excessive risk to public health, safety and welfare from disease and fire; that the environmental, economic and societal damage resulting from fires in waste tire piles can be avoided by removing the piles; that tire pile fires cause extensive pollution of the air and surface and ground water for miles downwind and downstream from the fire; that abatement of this pollution is costly; that the accumulation and storage of any waste tires or parts of waste tires on private or public property, including but not limited to highways, creates a condition tending to reduce the value of private property and to promote blight and deterioration which if permitted to remain will continue to destroy the natural beauty of this state and have adverse economic and social effects; that waste tires constitute an unattractive nuisance creating a hazard to the health and safety of minors; that waste tires are nearly always discarded or abandoned on public highways, rights-of-way or within sight of the highway rights-of-way and on private property within a reasonable proximity to public highways, and when located there the cost of controlling or abating the visual pollution is a cost of maintenance of public highways; that the visual pollution elsewhere located may be controlled or abated by funds made available for that purpose from sources other than those contemplated by section fifty-two, article VI of the West Virginia constitution; that all visual pollution is a deterrent to economic development; and that it is in the public interest and welfare to provide for a program to eliminate the unsightly practice of discarding or abandoning waste tires.
(c) In view of these findings the Legislature declares it to be the public policy of the state of West Virginia to eliminate the present danger resulting from discarded or abandoned waste tires and to eliminate the visual pollution resulting from waste tire piles, and that in order to provide for the public health, safety and welfare, quality of life, and to reverse the adverse impacts to the proper maintenance and efficiency of public highways, it is necessary to enact legislation to those ends by providing expeditious means and methods for effecting the disposal of waste tires. The Legislature further finds and declares that the presence of discarded or abandoned waste tire or any part of a waste tire, on private or public property, including but not limited to highways is a public nuisance injurious to the public health, safety and general welfare of the citizens of this state and adversely impacts the proper maintenance and efficiency of public highways which shall be abated by the methods provided in this article.
(d) Therefore, the Legislature finds and declares that removal of waste tires is directly related to the efficiency of public highways; removal of waste tires represents a legitimate state interest; removal of waste tires requires sufficient funding; removal of waste tires as contemplated in this article amounts to maintenance of public highways within the meaning of section fifty- two, article VI of the West Virginia constitution; and funding for removal of waste tires, as contemplated in this article, is directly related to the maintenance and efficiency of public highways.
(1) "Beneficial use" means the use or reuse of whole waste tires or tire derived material which are reused in constructing retaining walls, rebuilding highway shoulders and subbase, building highway crash attenuation barriers, feed hopper or watering troughs for livestock, other agricultural uses approved by the division of environmental protection, playground equipment, boat or truck dock construction, house or building construction, go-cart, motorbike or race track barriers, or similar types of beneficial applications: Provided, That waste tires may not be reused as fencing, as erosion control structures, along stream banks or river banks or reused in any manner where human health or the environment, as determined by the director of the division of environmental protection, is put at risk.
(4) "Motor vehicle dealer" means any business engaged in the sale of new automobiles, trucks, trailers, motorcycles, agricultural equipment, motorized recreational vehicles and motorized industrial vehicles in the state of West Virginia.
(5) "Motor vehicle" means an automobile, truck, trailer, motorcycle, agricultural equipment, motorized recreational vehicle and motorized industrial vehicles: Provided, That off road industrial vehicles utilized in earth moving activities are excluded.
(6) "New tire" means a tire which is not used or retreaded, and is being sold on the market for the first time.
(7) "Person" includes a natural person, corporation, firm, partnership, association or society.
(8) "Remediate or Remediation" means to remove all tires located above grade at a site and may also include, at the discretion of the division, the removal of the solid waste incidental to the removal of waste tires at a site: Provided, That remediation does not include clean up of hazardous waste.
(9) "Retailer of new tires" means a person who engages in the retail sale of a new tire in any quantity for any use or purpose by the purchaser other than for resale.
(10) "Tire hauler" means a person engaged in the business of transporting waste tires for hire or consideration. Tire hauler does not include a person who hauls waste tires generated by their own business activity.
(11) "Used tires" means a tire that has been removed from a wheel following a period of use and has been determined by its owner to have reuse potential as a tire.
(12) "Waste tire" means any continuous solid or pneumatic rubber covering designed to encircle the wheel of a vehicle but which has been discarded, abandoned or is no longer suitable for its original, intended purpose nor suitable for recapping, or other beneficial use because of wear, damage or defect. A tire is no longer considered to be suitable for its original intended purpose when it fails to meet the minimum requirements to pass a West Virginia motor vehicle safety inspection. Used tires located at a commercial recapping facility or tire dealer for the purpose of being reused or recapped are not waste tires.
(13) "Waste tire monofill or monofill" means an approved solid waste facility where no solid waste except waste tires are placed for the purpose of long term storage for eventual retrieval for marketing purposes.
(14) "Waste tire processing facility" means a solid waste facility or manufacturer that accepts waste tires generated by sources other than the owner or operator of the facility for processing by such means as cryogenics, pyrolysis, pyroprossing cutting, splitting, shredding, quartering, grinding or otherwise breaking down waste tires for the purposes of disposal, reuse, recycling and or marketing.
§17-24-3. Waste tires prohibited in certain places; penalty.
(a) No person shall, within this state, place, deposit or abandon any waste tire or part of a waste tire upon the right-of- way of any public highway or upon any other public property nor deposit or abandon any waste tire or part of a waste tire upon any private property unless it is at a licensed monofill, solid waste facility or at any other business authorized by the division of environmental protection to accept, process, manufacture or re- manufacture waste tires; Provided, That the commissioner may temporarily accumulate as many waste tires as he or she considers necessary at any location or locations necessary to effectuate the purposes of this article.
(b) No person, except those persons who have received and maintain a valid permit or license from the state for the operation of a solid waste facility, waste tire monofill, waste tire processing facility or other such permitted activities, shall accumulate more than one hundred waste tires for beneficial use without obtaining a license or permit from the division of environmental protection.
(c) Any person who violates any provision of this section is guilty of creating an open dump and subject to enforcement actions or prosecution under the provisions of article fifteen, chapter twenty-two of this code.
(a) The division of highways shall administer all funds made available to the division for remediation of waste tire piles and for the proper disposal of waste tires removed from waste tire piles. The commissioner of the division of highways may: (i) Propose for legislative promulgation in accordance with article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code, emergency and legislative rules necessary to implement the provisions of this article; and (ii) administer all funds appropriated by the Legislature to carry out the requirements of this article, and any other funds from whatever source including, but not limited to, federal, state or private grants.
(b) The commissioner also has the following powers:
(1) To apply and carry out the provisions of this article and the rules promulgated under this article; and
(2) To investigate from time to time the operation and effect of this article and of the rules promulgated under this article and to report his or her findings and recommendations to the Legislature and the governor.
(c) The provisions of articles two-a and four, chapter seventeen of this code and the policy, rules, practices and procedures under these articles shall be followed by the commissioner in carrying out the purposes of this article.
(d) On or before the first day of June, two thousand one, the commissioner shall determine the location, approximate size and potential risk to the public of all waste tire piles in the state and establish, in descending order, a waste tire remediation list.
(e) The commissioner may contract with the department of health and human resources and/or the division of corrections to remediate or assist in remediation of waste tire piles throughout the state. Utilization of available department of health and human resources and the department of corrections work programs shall be given priority status in the contract process as long as the programs prove a cost effective method of remediating waste tire piles.
(f) Waste tire remediation shall be stopped and the division of environmental protection notified upon the discovery of any potentially hazardous material at a remediation site. The division of environmental protection shall respond to the notification in accordance with the provisions of article eighteen, chapter twenty- two of this code.
§17-24-5. Tire disposal at division of highways county headquarters; collection fee for tires.
(a) Any resident of this state may take passenger car and light truck waste tires to a division of highways county headquarters for disposal. The division shall establish a station at each county headquarters for the receipt of these waste tires.
(b) The division shall pay a collection fee of one dollar for each tire to any person who brings tires to the station. The collection fee shall be paid from the tire remediation/environmental cleanup fund created in section eight of this article. The division shall mark each tire it accepts at a station in such a manner that the same tire cannot be used to obtain more than one collection fee.
§17-24-6. Disposal of waste tires.
(a) The division may sell waste tires collected during remediation of waste tire piles or collected under section five of this article at public auction or to a waste tire monofill, waste tire processing facility or business authorized by the division of environmental protection to accept, store, use or process waste tires.
§17-24-7. Temporary tire disposal tax.
(a) There is hereby levied and imposed upon every sale of a new tire by retailers of new tires and new motor vehicle dealers, in addition to all other taxes and fees now imposed by law, a temporary tax of three dollars on each new tire sold. The amount of the tax shall be added to the sales price paid by the ultimate consumer, and shall constitute a part of that price and be collectable as a part of the price. For persons in the business of selling new motor vehicles, this tax applies to the cost of tires on or with each vehicle at the time of sale. This temporary tax shall expire and shall no longer be collected after the commissioner certifies to the Legislature that the remediation of all waste tire piles that were determined by the commissioner to exist on the first day of June, two thousand one, has been completed.
(b) The temporary tire tax levied under this section shall be collected by the tax commissioner in the same manner that the consumers sales and service tax is collected under chapter eleven of this code and deposited in the tire remediation fund created under section eight of this article: Provided, That the exemptions contained in chapter eleven do not apply to the temporary tire tax. The provisions of sections four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten, article nine, chapter eleven of this code apply to the temporary tire tax.
§17-24-8. Creation of tire remediation environmental cleanup fund; proceeds from sale of waste tires; performance review.
(a) There is hereby created in the state treasury a special revenue fund known as the "tire remediation/environmental cleanup fund". All moneys appropriated, deposited or accrued in this fund shall be used exclusively for remediation of waste tire piles as required by article twenty-four, chapter seventeen of this code. The fund shall consist of the proceeds from the sale of waste tires; fees collected by the division of tax as provided for in section six of this article; any federal, state or private grants; legislative appropriations; loans; and any other funding source available for waste tire remediation. Any balance remaining in the fund at the end of any state fiscal year shall not revert to the state treasury but shall remain in this fund and be used only in a manner consistent with the requirements of this article.
(b) No further collections or deposits shall be made after the commissioner certifies to the governor and the Legislature that the remediation of all waste tire piles that were determined by the commissioner to exist on the first day of June, two thousand, and one has been completed.
(c) The joint committee on government operations shall, pursuant to authority granted in article ten, chapter four of this code, conduct a preliminary performance review of the division's compliance with the waste tire remediation mandated in this article; whether the purposes of this article have been met and whether it is appropriate to terminate this program. In conducting the preliminary performance review, the committee shall follow the guidelines established in article ten, section ten, chapter four of this code. A preliminary review shall be completed on or before the first day of January, two thousand three.
§17-24-9. Remediation; liability for remediation and court costs.
(a) Any person who has prior or subsequent to the effective date of this act illegally disposed of waste tires or has waste tires illegally disposed on his or her property liable for:
(b) The division shall notify any person who owns real property or rights to property where a waste tire pile is located that remediation of the waste tire pile is necessary. The division shall make and enter an order directing the person or persons to remove and properly dispose of the waste tires. The division shall set a time limit for completion of the remediation. The order shall be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested or by a law-enforcement officer.
(c) If the remediation is not completed within the time limit, or the person cannot be located, or the person notifies the division that he or she is unable to comply with the order, the division may expend funds, as provided in this article, to complete the remediation. Any amounts expended shall be promptly repaid by the person or persons responsible for the waste tire pile. Any person owing remediation costs and or damages is liable at law until such time as all costs and or damages are fully paid.
(d) Authorized representatives of the division have the right, upon presentation of proper identification, to enter upon any property for the purpose of conducting studies or exploratory work to determine the existence of adverse effects of a waste tire pile, to determine the feasibility of the remediation or prevention of such adverse effects and to conduct remediation activities provided for in this article. The entry is an exercise of the police power of the state and for the protection of public health, safety and general welfare and is not an act of condemnation of property or trespass on property. Nothing contained in this section eliminates any obligation to follow any process that may be required by law.
(f) Liens created by this section shall be duly recorded in the office of the clerk of the county commission in the county where the real property is located, be liens of equal dignity, rank and priority with the lien on the premises of state, county, school and municipal taxes for the amount thereof upon the real property served. The division enforce the liens in a civil action to recover the money due for remediation costs and damages plus court fees and costs and reasonable attorney's fees.
(h) Any proceeds from any sale of property obtained as a result of execution of a lien or judgment under this section for remediation costs, excluding costs of obtaining judgement and perfecting the lien, shall be deposited into the waste tire remediation fund of the state treasury.
§17-24-10. Injunctive relief; additional remedy.
(a) In addition to all other remedies provided for in this article, the attorney general of this state, the prosecuting attorney of any county where any violation of any provision of this article occurs, or any citizen, resident or taxpayer of the county where any violation of any provision of this article occurs, may apply to the circuit court, or the judge thereof in vacation, of the county where the alleged violation occurred, for an injunction to restrain, prevent or abate the maintenance and storage of waste tires in violation of any provision of this article, or the violation of any other provision of this article. In seeking an injunction, it is not necessary for the director or any state agency seeking an injunction under section to post bond.
§17-24-11. Authority of commissioner of bureau of public health.
Although the director is primarily responsible for remediation of waste tire piles under the provisions of this article, the commissioner of the bureau of public health may enforce the public health laws in any instance where the commissioner of the bureau of public health determines there is an imminent and substantial endangerment to the public health.
§17-24-12. Licensing and manifest requirements.
(a) No person may operate as a retailer of new tires, waste tire processing facility, monofill operator, tire hauler or other business that sells, transports, stores, disposes or process waste tires in this state without obtaining a license from the division. The purpose of this license is to assure that all businesses participating in the flow of tires from new to waste tires are identified and comply with the provisions of this article.
(b) Each person licensed pursuant to this section shall document the removal, transportation and proper disposal of all waste tires in this state using a manifest form to be provided by the division. The manifest form requirements shall be incorporated in the rules promulgated under section four of this article. The division, at a minimum, shall require the manifest form to include such information as the name, physical address, mailing address, county and telephone number of the licensee and other specific information as required to track waste tires. The top original of the manifest shall be kept by the tire retailer or other originating licensee at the physical address from where the waste tires were originally transported. The tire retailer or other originating licensee must receive the completed manifest from the tire hauler within sixty days after the waste tires were transported off-site. The tire retailer or other originating licensee shall notify the division of any tire hauler or other entity that fails to complete the manifest, alters the tire retailer's portion of the manifest or fails to return the manifest within three months after the off-site transportation. The second original of the manifest shall be kept at the tire hauler's physical address. The third original of the manifest shall be kept at the waste tire processing facility's physical address. All manifests shall be kept on site for a period of three years. Any authorized representative of the division may, at reasonable times, enter onto the licensed site to inspect manifests. The licensee shall submit a copy of the manifests to the division upon request from the division.
§17-24-13. Requirements for retail sale of tires.
(1) "State law requires us to accept your (old) waste tires for recycling or proper disposal if you purchase new tires from us";
(2) "State law requires us to charge you a tax of $3.00 per tire to fund a program to cleanup illegally disposed waste tires even if you do not leave your tires with us";
(3) "Recycle your (old) waste tires";
(4) "It is a crime to burn, bury or throw away waste tires without authorization and or permits from the division of environmental protection".
§17-24-14. Construction.
The provisions of this article shall be liberally construed to accomplish the objectives and purposes of this article.
(a) Effective the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred ninety-four, it shall be It is unlawful to deposit lead-acid batteries in a solid waste facility in West Virginia; effective the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred ninety-six, it shall be it is unlawful to deposit tires in a solid waste facility in West Virginia except for waste tires collected as part of the division of highways waste tire remediation projects or other collection efforts in accordance with the provisions of article twenty-four, chapter seventeen of this code or the division of environmental protection's pollution prevention program and open dump program or other state authorized remediation or cleanup programs: Provided, That waste tires may be deposited in solid waste facilities only when the state agency authorizing the remediation or cleanup program has determined there is no reasonable alternative available.
(b) Effective the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven, it shall be It is unlawful to deposit yard waste, including grass clippings and leaves, in a solid waste facility in West Virginia: Provided, That such the prohibitions do not apply to a facility designed specifically to compost such the yard waste or otherwise recycle or reuse such the items: Provided, however, That reasonable and necessary exceptions to such the prohibitions may be included as part of the rules promulgated pursuant to subsection (c) of this section.
(d) No later than the first day of August, one thousand nine hundred ninety-five, the division of environmental protection shall promulgate rules, in accordance with chapter twenty-nine-a of this code, as amended, to implement and enforce the program for yard waste and lead-acid batteries designed pursuant to subsection (b) of this section. No later than the first day of August, one thousand nine hundred ninety-four two thousand, the division of environmental protection shall promulgate rules, in accordance with chapter twenty-nine-a of said code, as amended, to implement and enforce the program for tires designed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.
(f) In promulgating the rules required by subsections (b)
and (c) of this section, yard waste, as described in subsection (e) of this section, the division shall provide for the disposal of yard waste in a manner consistent with one or any combination of the following:
(3) Disposal by open burning where such that activity is not prohibited by this code, rules promulgated hereunder under this code or municipal or county codes or ordinances; or
(4) Disposal in a publicly or privately operated landfill, only where none of the foregoing options other options in this subsection are available. Such The manner of disposal will shall involve only small quantities of domestic yard waste generated only from the property of the participating resident or tenant.
§22-15-21 WASTE TIRE MANAGEMENT.
(a) No person, except those persons who have received and maintained a valid permit or license from the state for the operation of a solid waste facility, waste tire monofill, waste tire processing facility, or other such permitted activities, shall accumulate waste tires without obtaining a license or permit from the division: Provided, That persons who use waste tires for beneficial uses may in the discretion of the director of the division of environmental protection accumulate waste tires without a permit.
(b) No person shall dispose of waste tires in or upon any public or private land, any site or facility other than a site or facility which holds a valid permit issued by the division for that disposal or usage.
(f) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (g) of this section, each retailer is required to accept one tire of comparable size for each new tire sold at retail. The retailer may charge a disposal fee to cover the actual costs of lawful waste tire disposal. No retail tire dealer may deliver any waste tire, or part of a waste tire, to a person not authorized by the state of West Virginia to transport or accept waste tires.
(g) Any person purchasing a new tire from a retailer shall provide a used or waste tire for each tire purchased or sign a waiver, provided to the tire retailer by the division, acknowledging that he or she is retaining the waste tire and that he or she is legally responsible for proper disposal of each tire retained. These forms are to be kept by the retailer for three years. If the tire purchaser returns to the tire retailer with a signed form given to the purchaser by that retailer, the retailer shall accept up to the total number of comparable size tires as previously retained by the purchaser: Provided, That persons having winter tires changed or buying new winter tires and keeping usable summer tires for later installation are not required to provide a used or waste tire, or sign a waiver.
(H) Each tire retailer shall post in a conspicuous place a written notice, provided by the division, that bears the following statements:
(2) "State law authorizes us to charge you no more than the actual cost of disposal of your waste tires even if you do not leave your tires with us"; and
(3) "It is a crime to burn, bury, abandon or throw away waste tires without authorization and or permits from the division of environmental protection".
This notice shall be at least eight and one-half inches wide and eleven inches high.
(i) Solid waste facilities shall accept whole waste tires and may charge a reasonable fee for acceptance of waste tires. All waste tires shall be excluded from the calculation of monthly tonnage limits and from any solid waste disposal assessment fees imposed by section five-a, article eleven, chapter twenty; section eleven, article fifteen, chapter twenty-two, section four, article sixteen, chapter twenty-two and section thirty, article four, chapter twenty-two-c of this code.
(j) Solid waste facilities shall accept and dispose of whole tires from state authorized tire remediation projects. All waste tires from state authorized tire remediation projects shall be excluded from the calculation of monthly tonnage limits and from any solid waste disposal assessment fees imposed by section five-a, article eleven, chapter twenty; section eleven, article fifteen, chapter twenty-two, section four, article sixteen, chapter twenty- two and section thirty, article four, chapter twenty-two-c of this code. For state sponsored tire remediation projects, the state may negotiate with the solid waste facility for rates and charges for the disposal of waste tires regardless of the rates and charges established by the public service commission pursuant to article one, chapter twenty-four of this code: Provided, That the disposal of whole tires in a solid waste facility is allowed only when the division of highways or the division of environmental protection has determined there is no other reasonable alternative available.
(k) The division shall propose emergency and legislative rules for promulgation in accordance with article three, chapter twenty- nine-a of this code to effectuate the purposes of this section.
(a) No person may engage in the transportation of waste tires for compensation unless the person possesses a certificate of convenience and necessity from the public service commission. The vehicles and their operators are subject to the requirements of this article, article twenty-four, chapter seventeen of this code, vehicle registration requirements and safety rules promulgated by the public service commission. The requirement to obtain a certificate of convenience and necessity to operate as a motor carrier in the transportation of used tires does not apply to persons who currently possess a certificate of convenience and necessity pursuant to articles two or three of this chapter.
(c) The commission shall not exercise rate jurisdiction over carriers registered pursuant to this article.
(d) The commission may not establish exclusive territories for motor carriers in the transportation of waste tires but the carriers may operate in any or all parts of the state. Nor shall anything in this article be construed to limit the operating territory or rights of a motor carrier possessing a certificate of convenience and necessity or permit pursuant to articles two or three of this chapter.
Each common carrier or contract carrier by motor vehicle authorized to haul tires pursuant to this article or articles two or three of this chapter shall submit an annual report to the division of highways including the name, address and telephone number of the carrier, the quantity and location of waste tires collected within this state and the quantity and location where the tires were deposited.
§24A-2A-3. Rulemaking.