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RI Gen L § 23-19-13.2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-19 - Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation|Section 23-19-13.2 - Disposal of infectious and pathological waste.

§ 23-19-13.2. Disposal of infectious and pathological waste.(a) No resource recovery system or facility made available by the corporation shall accept or burn any infectious or human or animal pathological waste from any hospital, clinic, medical laboratory, nursing home, medical examiner, or teaching hospital. Any facility violating this provision shall be fined not less than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000). The fine shall be paid to the city or town in which the facility is located.(b) Any person who shall knowingly and willfully perform any act or shall conspire with any person, hospital, clinic, medical laboratory, medical examiner, or teaching hospital to perform any act in violation of the provisions of this section shall be fined not less than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000).History of Section.P.L. 1985, ch. 453, § 1; P.L. 1988, ch. 587, § 1; P.L. 1989, ch. 241, § 1; P.L. 1989, ch. 244, § 1.
RI Gen L § 23-19-13.3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-19 - Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation|Section 23-19-13.3 - Prohibiting business due to conviction of certain acts.

§ 23-19-13.3. Prohibiting business due to conviction of certain acts.Any person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of collecting and/or disposing of solid waste, which has been convicted of violating any statute relating to bribery, fraud, or bid-rigging in this state or in any other state in this country, shall for a period of three (3) years from the date of conviction, be prohibited from doing business in this state.History of Section.P.L. 1989, ch. 506, § 1.
RI Gen L § 23-19-13.4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-19 - Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation|Section 23-19-13.4 - Host community assessment committee - Definition - Funding - Powers and duties.

§ 23-19-13.4. Host community assessment committee — Definition — Funding — Powers and duties.(a) All applicants shall within seven (7) days from the date of the filing for a solid waste disposal license, notify the chief elected official or the chief executive officer of the municipality in which the facility is proposed to be sited of the filing for a solid waste disposal license. Within thirty (30) days of the date of the notice, the municipality may submit to the director a request for an amount not to exceed seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for the establishment of a local host community assessment committee which shall negotiate with the applicant a host community agreement that includes a host community benefit package. The host community agreement may address, but shall not be limited to, traffic concerns, hours of operation, highway improvements and litter control. The agreements may be over-ridden in the case of emergency by the director. The host community agreement may provide for benefits to the municipality, either monetary or nonmonetary which are in addition to the payments required by subsection (b). The request shall be in writing and shall state reasons for the requested amount. Within twenty (20) days of the receipt of the written request of the municipality, the director shall determine the amount payable by the applicant for establishment of the local host community assessment committee based upon the reasons stated in the request. The director shall notify the applicant and the municipality of the determination and the terms and conditions of payment. The failure of the applicant to comply shall be considered a withdrawal of the application.(b) All public solid waste landfill and waste to energy facilities shall be required to pay to the municipality at minimum a per annum fee of one dollar ($1.00) per ton of solid waste disposed at the site or seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000), whichever is greater. The director may, by regulation, determine and impose disposal fees for other solid waste facilities.History of Section.P.L. 1989, ch. 508, § 6, P.L. 1989, ch. 514, § 8.
RI Gen L § 23-19-13.5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-19 - Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation|Section 23-19-13.5 - Interim rates.

§ 23-19-13.5. Interim rates.The municipal tipping fee charged by the resource recovery corporation shall be as follows:(1) Thirty-two dollars ($32.00) per ton from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2015, for any municipality that recycles between zero percent (0%) and twenty-four and ninety-nine hundredths percent (24.99%) of its solid waste at the Corporation's material recycling facility ("MRF") in Johnston.(2) Thirty-one dollars ($31.00) per ton from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2015, for any municipality that recycles between twenty-five percent (25%) and twenty-nine and ninety-nine hundredths percent (29.99%) of its solid waste at the Corporation's ("MRF") in Johnston.(3) Thirty dollars ($30.00) per ton from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2015, for any municipality that recycles between thirty percent (30%) and thirty-four and ninety-nine hundredths percent (34.99%) of its solid waste at the Corporation's ("MRF") in Johnston.(4) Twenty-nine dollars ($29.00) per ton from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2015, for any municipality that recycles thirty-five percent (35%) or more of its solid waste at the Corporation's ("MRF") in Johnston.(5) The Corporation shall issue a rebate not later than September 1 of each year to those municipalities qualifying for a year-end tipping fee adjustment according to the municipality's actual recorded tonnage delivered to the MRF in Johnston, and in accordance with the provisions of the municipality's current-year signed solid waste and recycling services agreement with the corporation.(6) The corporation shall provide a rate plan with its proposed budget to be submitted to the state on or before October 1, 2014, in accordance with § 23-19-37.History of Section.P.L. 2010, ch. 23, art. 10, § 4; P.L. 2011, ch. 151, art. 3, § 2; P.L. 2014, ch. 145, art. 6, § 1.
RI Gen L § 23-19-13.6 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-19 - Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation|Section 23-19-13.6 - Cover materials not permitted.

§ 23-19-13.6. Cover materials not permitted.(a) No resource recovery system or facility made available by the corporation shall use the following as material to cover compacted solid waste at a sanitary landfill:(1) Construction and demolition debris, whole, shredded, or pulverized, including wood (including painted, treated, and coated wood and wood products), land-clearing debris, wall coverings, plaster, drywall, plumbing fixtures, non-asbestos insulation, roofing shingles, and other roof coverings; or(2) Organic materials, including materials that contain carbon-to-carbon bonds and are biodegradable, such as paper, wood, food waste, leaves, and yard waste. Organic materials may be used only as a final landfill cover with approval of the department of environmental management.(b) Any facility violating the provisions of this section shall be fined not less than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000). The fine shall be paid to the city or town in which the facility is located.History of Section.P.L. 2012, ch. 487, § 1; P.L. 2018, ch. 12, § 1; P.L. 2018, ch. 20, § 1.
RI Gen L § 23-19-15 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-19 - Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation|Section 23-19-15 - Short term notes.

§ 23-19-15. Short term notes.(a) Money borrowed by the corporation for the purpose of providing temporary financing of a project or projects or combination of projects pending the issuance of bonds or other notes shall be evidenced by notes or other obligations.(b) The principal and interest of all notes or other obligations of the corporation issued under the provisions of this section shall be payable from the following:(1) From the proceeds of bonds subsequently issued; or(2) From the proceeds of subsequent borrowings which comply with the provisions of this section; or(3) From general revenues of the corporation, the lien on which may be equal and proportionate with, but not superior to, that securing outstanding bonds or bonds subsequently issued.(c) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, all the notes shall be deemed to be negotiable instruments under the laws of the state subject only to the provisions for registration contained therein.(d) The notes or other obligations or any issue thereof shall be in a form and contain any other provisions that the corporation may determine, and the notes or resolutions or proceedings authorizing the notes or other obligations or any issue thereof may contain, in addition to any provisions, conditions, covenants, or limitations authorized by this chapter, any provisions, conditions, covenants, or limitations which the corporation is authorized to include in any resolution or resolutions authorizing bonds or notes or in any trust indenture relating bonds or notes.(e) The corporation may issue notes or other obligations in a manner either publicly or privately on terms that it may determine to be in its best interests.(f) The notes or other obligations may be issued under the provisions of this chapter without obtaining the consent of any department, division, commission, board, body, or agency of the state, without any other proceedings or the happening of any conditions or things other than those proceedings, conditions, or things which are specifically required by this chapter, and by the provisions and resolutions authorizing the issuance of the notes or obligations.History of Section.P.L. 1978, ch. 305, § 13; G.L. 1956, § 23-46.1-15; P.L. 1979, ch. 39, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 23-19-15; P.L. 1982, ch. 262, § 3.
RI Gen L § 23-19-18 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-19 - Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation|Section 23-19-18 - Trust funds.

§ 23-19-18. Trust funds.All money received pursuant to the authority of this chapter, whether as provided from the sale of bonds or notes or as revenues, receipts, or income, shall be trust funds to be held and applied solely as provided in the proceedings under which the bonds or notes are authorized. Any officer with whom or any bank or trust company with which moneys shall be deposited as trustee, shall hold and apply the trust funds for the purposes for which the bonds or notes are authorized, subject to the applicable provisions of this chapter, the proceedings authorizing the bonds or notes, and the trust agreement securing the bonds or notes, if any.History of Section.P.L. 1978, ch. 305, § 15; G.L. 1956, § 23-46.1-18; P.L. 1979, ch. 39, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 23-19-18; P.L. 2001, ch. 86, § 80.
RI Gen L § 23-19-20 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-19 - Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation|Section 23-19-20 - Pledge of the state.

§ 23-19-20. Pledge of the state.The state does hereby pledge to and agree with the holders of any notes or bonds issued under this chapter and with those parties who may enter into contracts with the corporation, that the state will not limit or alter the rights vested in the corporation to fulfill the terms of any agreements made with the holders of any notes or bonds issued under this chapter or in any way impair the rights and remedies of the holders and other parties until the notes and bonds together with their interest, with interest on any unpaid installments of interest, and all costs and expenses in connection with any action or proceeding by or on behalf of the holders and other parties, are fully met and discharged and the contracts are fully performed on the part of the corporation. The corporation is authorized to include this pledge and agreement of the state in any agreement with the holders of the notes or bonds or contracts.History of Section.P.L. 1974, ch. 176, § 1; P.L. 1978, ch. 305, § 17; G.L. 1956, § 23-46.1-20; P.L. 1979, ch. 39, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 23-19-20; P.L. 2001, ch. 86, § 80.
RI Gen L § 23-19-21 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-19 - Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation|Section 23-19-21 - Credit of state not pledged.

§ 23-19-21. Credit of state not pledged.Obligations issued under the provisions of this chapter shall not be deemed to constitute a debt or liability or obligation of the state or of any political subdivision of the state or a pledge of the faith and credit of the state or of any political subdivision, but shall be payable solely from the revenues or assets of the corporation. Each obligation issued under this chapter shall contain on its face a statement to the effect that the corporation shall not be obligated to pay the principal of the obligation nor the interest on it except from the revenues or assets pledged to the payment of the principal of or the interest on the obligation, and that neither the faith and credit nor the taxing power of the state or of any political subdivision is pledged to the payment of the principal of or the interest on the obligation.History of Section.P.L. 1974, ch. 176, § 1; P.L. 1978, ch. 305, § 18; G.L. 1956, § 23-46.1-21; P.L. 1979, ch. 39, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 23-19-21; P.L. 2001, ch. 86, § 80.
RI Gen L § 23-19-22 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-19 - Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation|Section 23-19-22 - Notes and bonds as legal investments.

§ 23-19-22. Notes and bonds as legal investments.The notes and bonds of the corporation shall be legal investments in which all public officers and public bodies of this state, its political subdivisions, all municipalities and municipal subdivisions, all insurance companies and associations and other persons carrying on an insurance business, all banks, bankers, banking institutions including savings and loan associations, building and loan associations, trust companies, savings banks and savings associations, investment companies and other persons carrying on a banking business, all administrators, guardians, executors, trustees, and other fiduciaries, and all other persons whatsoever who are now or may hereafter be authorized to invest in bonds or in other obligations of the state, may properly and legally invest funds, including capital, in their control or belonging to them. The notes and bonds are also made securities which may properly and legally be deposited with and received by all public officers and bodies of the state or any agency or political subdivision of the state and all municipalities and public corporations, for any purpose for which the deposit of bonds or other obligations of the state is now or may hereafter be authorized by law.History of Section.P.L. 1974, ch. 176, § 1; P.L. 1978, ch. 305, § 18; G.L. 1956, § 23-46.1-22; P.L. 1979, ch. 39, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 23-19-22.
RI Gen L § 23-19-23 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-19 - Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation|Section 23-19-23 - Repealed.

§ 23-19-23. Repealed.History of Section.P.L. 1974, ch. 176, § 1; P.L. 1978, ch. 305, § 18; G.L. 1956, § 23-46.1-23; P.L. 1979, ch. 39, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 23-19-23; P.L. 1980, ch. 226, §§ 17, 23; P.L. 1982, ch. 414, § 10; P.L. 1983, ch. 233, § 1; P.L. 1989, ch. 542, § 49; P.L. 2001, ch. 86, § 80; P.L. 2006, ch. 26, § 1; P.L. 2006, ch. 52, § 1; Repealed by P.L. 2013, ch. 307, § 1, effective July 1, 2013; P.L. 2013, ch. 346, § 1, effective July 15, 2013.
RI Gen L § 23-19-24.1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-19 - Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation|Section 23-19-24.1 - Solid waste diversion - Economic impact and strategies reporting.

§ 23-19-24.1. Solid waste diversion — Economic impact and strategies reporting.(a) On or before January 1, 2018, the corporation shall submit to the governor, the senate president, and the speaker of the house, a study of the economic impact of Rhode Island recycling-related industries. The study shall include, but not be limited to, direct and indirect jobs created, direct and indirect economic impacts, and the potential economic benefits of achieving the state's fifty percent (50%) diversion goal.(b) On or before January 1, 2018, the corporation shall submit to the governor, the senate president, and the speaker of the house, a report that provides strategies to achieve the state's fifty percent (50%) diversion goal, including the following:(1) A review and update of the state's current diversion rate;(2) Identification of problematic waste streams and sources and recommendations on handling those waste streams and sources;(3) Evaluation of current programs and their effectiveness and recommendations for changes to those programs.History of Section.P.L. 2016, ch. 421, § 1; P.L. 2016, ch. 422, § 1.
RI Gen L § 23-19-25 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-19 - Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation|Section 23-19-25 - Authorization to accept appropriated moneys.

§ 23-19-25. Authorization to accept appropriated moneys.The corporation is authorized to accept any money that may be appropriated from time to time by the general assembly for effectuating its corporate purposes including, without limitation, the payment of the initial expenses of administration and operation, and the establishment of reserves or contingency funds to be available for the payment of the principal of and the interest of any bonds, notes, or other obligations of the corporation.History of Section.P.L. 1974, ch. 176, § 1; P.L. 1978, ch. 305, § 18; G.L. 1956, § 23-46.1-25; P.L. 1979, ch. 39, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 23-19-25.
RI Gen L § 23-19-26 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-19 - Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation|Section 23-19-26 - Tax exemption.

§ 23-19-26. Tax exemption.(a) The exercise of the powers granted by this chapter will be in all respects for the benefit of the people of the state, for their well-being and prosperity and for the improvement of their social and economic conditions, and the corporation shall not be required to pay any tax or assessment on any property owned by the corporation under the provisions of this chapter or upon the income from that property; nor shall the corporation be required to pay any recording fee or transfer tax of any kind on account of instruments recorded by it or on its behalf; nor shall the corporation be required to pay gasoline and diesel engine fuel taxes for the fuel consumed by its vehicles and equipment and used exclusively in the performance of its on-site duties pursuant to this chapter. The corporation shall pay each municipality in which the corporation sites a facility, as a payment in lieu of taxes, a minimum fee of: (1) Two dollars ($2.00) per ton for each ton of acceptable waste processed at that facility during each operating year of that facility, or (2) five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) per operating year, whichever sum is greater. Each of the minimum sums shall escalate in accordance with the same escalation formula by which the operation and maintenance fee set forth in the service agreement covering the facility escalates; provided further, however, the corporation may direct payments in lieu of taxes to be paid to a city or town in which other properties or facilities are located. Nothing in this section shall preclude the corporation and a municipality within which a facility has been sited, from negotiating and entering into a host community agreement that provides for benefits to the municipality, either monetary or non-monetary, in addition to the payments in lieu of taxes set forth in this section.(b) Any bonds, notes, or other obligations issued by the corporation under the provisions of this chapter, the transfer, and the income from the obligations (including any profits made by their sale ), shall at all times be free from taxation by the state or any political subdivision or other instrumentality of the state, excepting inheritance, estate, and gift taxes.History of Section.P.L. 1974, ch. 176, § 1; P.L. 1978, ch. 305, § 18; G.L. 1956, § 23-46.1-26; P.L. 1979, ch. 39, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 23-19-26; P.L. 1986, ch. 522, § 2; P.L. 1992, ch. 133, art. 111, § 1.
RI Gen L § 23-19-27 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-19 - Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation|Section 23-19-27 - Severability.

§ 23-19-27. Severability.The provisions of this chapter are severable and if any provision or part of any provision shall be held invalid or unconstitutional or inapplicable to any person or circumstances, the invalidity, unconstitutionality, or inapplicability shall not affect or impair the remaining provisions of this chapter. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this chapter are repealed.History of Section.P.L. 1974, ch. 176, § 1; P.L. 1978, ch. 305, § 18; G.L. 1956, § 23-46.1-27; P.L. 1979, ch. 39, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 23-19-27.
RI Gen L § 23-19-28 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-19 - Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation|Section 23-19-28 - Violations - Sanctions - Injunctive relief.

§ 23-19-28. Violations — Sanctions — Injunctive relief.The attorney general of the state shall have the power to bring an action in the name of the state, and the corporation through its legal counsel shall have the power to bring an action in the name of the corporation in any court of competent jurisdiction for restraining orders and injunctive relief to restrain and enjoin violations or threatened violations of this chapter, or for specific performance of the obligations of any person or municipality under this chapter. Proceedings under this chapter shall be instituted and prosecuted in the name of the corporation, (1) by the attorney general or (2) by the corporation through its legal counsel. The superior court shall have the jurisdiction in equity to enforce the provisions of this chapter and any rules or regulation of the corporation under the provisions of this chapter.History of Section.P.L. 1974, ch. 176, § 1; P.L. 1978, ch. 305, § 18; G.L. 1956, § 23-46.1-28; P.L. 1979, ch. 39, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 23-19-28; P.L. 1986, ch. 522, § 2; P.L. 2005, ch. 41, § 1; P.L. 2005, ch. 56, § 1.