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MS Code § 17-17-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Solid Wastes Disposal|§ 17-17-1. Short title

 This chapter shall be known as the "Solid Wastes Disposal Law of 1974."
MS Code § 17-17-2 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Solid Wastes Disposal|§ 17-17-2. Administration and enforcement transferred to Commission on Environmental Quality and Department of Environmental Quality

 The administration and enforcement of the Solid Wastes Disposal Law of 1974 are hereby transferred from the State Board of Health to the Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality and the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality. All personnel, records, property, equipment and funds allocated to the State Board of Health exclusively for the administration and enforcement of the Solid Wastes Disposal Law of 1974, as amended, are hereby transferred to and placed under the supervision and control of the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality.
MS Code § 17-17-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Solid Wastes Disposal|§ 17-17-5. Local governing bodies to provide for collection and disposal of garbage and rubbish; contracts; regulation of sanitary landfills; annexation

  After December 31, 1992, the board of supervisors and/or municipal governing body shall provide for the collection and disposal of garbage and the disposal of rubbish. The board of supervisors and/or municipal governing body may provide such collection or disposal services by contract with private or other controlling agencies, and the service may include house-to-house service or the placement of regularly serviced and controlled bulk refuse receptacles within reasonable distance from the farthest affected household, and the wastes disposed of in a manner acceptable to the department and within the meaning of this chapter. The board of supervisors and/or municipal governing body may enter into contracts related in any manner to the collection and transportation of solid wastes for a term of up to six (6) years; however, for such contracts executed on or after July 1, 2019, the board of supervisors and/or municipal governing body may have the option to extend the contract by mutual consent of the parties in one-year increments up to four (4) additional years without advertising for proposals, as long as rate adjustments remain consistent with the existing contract and the total term of the contract does not exceed ten (10) years. The board of supervisors and/or municipal governing body may enter into contracts related in any manner to the generation and sale of energy generated from solid waste, and contracts for treatment, processing, distribution, recycling, elimination or disposal of solid wastes for a term of up to thirty (30) years. The municipal governing body of any municipality is authorized to regulate the disposal of garbage and rubbish in sanitary landfills, as provided in Section 21-19-1, Mississippi Code of 1972.   In the event an unincorporated area which is annexed by a municipality is being provided collection and disposal of garbage and rubbish under contract with private or other controlling agencies, the municipality shall annex the area subject to the contract for the remainder of the term of the contract, but not to exceed five (5) years.
MS Code § 17-17-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Solid Wastes Disposal|§ 17-17-7. Garbage disposal

 Garbage and rubbish containing garbage shall be disposed of by sanitary landfill, approved incineration, composting, or by other means now available or which may later become available as approved by the department and under the supervision and control of a governmental, private or other agency acting within the provisions of this chapter.
MS Code § 17-17-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Solid Wastes Disposal|§ 17-17-9. Burning of garbage, etc.

 No garbage, or rubbish containing garbage or other putrescible materials, or hazardous wastes shall be burned except in approved incinerators meeting the necessary temperature requirements and air pollution controls as now established or may later be established. The open burning of rubbish shall be permitted only under controlled circumstances where sanitary landfill and landfill is not feasible, and not in proximity to sanitary landfill or landfill operations where spread of fire to these operations may be a hazard in the opinion of the controlling agency.
MS Code § 17-17-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Solid Wastes Disposal|§ 17-17-11. Hauling of solid waste

 Trucks or other vehicles engaged in the business of hauling solid waste shall be so covered, secured or sealed that there will be no loss during haulage to cause littering of streets and highways or cause a nuisance or hazard to the public health.
MS Code § 17-17-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Solid Wastes Disposal|§ 17-17-13. Exemption

 Nothing in this chapter shall prevent an individual or firm from disposing of solid waste from his own household or business upon his own land, provided such wastes are not hazardous as defined in Section 17-17-3(i) and provided such household or business is located and situated in the State of Mississippi   Provided, however, this exemption shall not operate to prevent the conduct of any waste disposal site investigation or inventory required by applicable state or federal law, rule or regulation, and further shall not operate to exclude from the regulatory provisions of this chapter any solid waste determined by the department to have characteristics that constitute an endangerment to the environment or the public health, safety or welfare, or any site used for the disposal of such solid waste.
MS Code § 17-17-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Solid Wastes Disposal|§ 17-17-15. Disposal of hazardous wastes

  Hazardous wastes shall not be handled or disposed of along with or in the same site or adjoining site as ordinary wastes unless specifically approved as exempted waste by the department. These shall be disposed of by special incinerators, separate landfills, or other means dictated by the particularities of the hazardous waste involved, as determined by the department or other responsible agency. The department may, in its discretion, maintain a field office at any treatment or disposal facility that receives hazardous wastes directly or indirectly from more than one (1) generator. However, the department shall maintain a field office at any commercial off-site multiuser hazardous waste incinerator designed to incinerate multiple nonhomogeneous types of wastes, and the cost of operating such field office shall be borne by the owner of such commercial hazardous waste incinerator. The field office, when required, shall be located in adequate accommodations provided by the facility owner and shall be staffed with department regulatory personnel as deemed necessary by the department. In exercising its discretion to determine the need for a field office, regulatory staff and support equipment, the department shall consider, at a minimum, the type and amount of hazardous waste received and also the type of facility. All fees shall be established by the department and shall be in addition to any other fees provided by law. The fee prescribed by the department shall be in an amount not less than the actual operating expenses of the permanent field office and shall be in addition to any other fees required by law.   In addition to considering all applicable state and federal laws and regulations, the Mississippi Pollution Control Permit Board shall not issue a permit for the establishment or operation of a commercial hazardous waste landfill for the disposal of hazardous waste (as defined by Section 17-17-3, Mississippi Code of 1972), in the State of Mississippi until the Environmental Protection Agency makes a final determination, pursuant to the Federal Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984, P.L. No. 98-616, that each waste to be placed in such landfill is suitable for land disposal.
MS Code § 17-17-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Solid Wastes Disposal|§ 17-17-17. Unauthorized dumps as public nuisance per se

 The formation of unauthorized dumps is hereby declared to be a public nuisance per se, menacing public health and unlawful, and any person who forms an unauthorized dump shall be punished as provided in Section 17-17-29. Existing dumps shall be eliminated by removal or on-site burial.
MS Code § 17-17-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Solid Wastes Disposal|§ 17-17-19. Vermin control

 Rodents and insects of public health importance, as rats, flies, mosquitoes and the like shall be controlled in a manner satisfactory to the health department; and the closing out or conversion to sanitary landfill operations of existing open dumps shall, where deemed necessary by the health officer, be accompanied by an adequate rat eradication program to prevent the spread of rodents to nearby properties.
MS Code § 17-17-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Solid Wastes Disposal|§ 17-17-31. Provisions supplemental

 The provisions of this chapter are supplemental and in addition to Section 21-19-1 and Sections 19-5-17 through 19-5-27, Mississippi Code of 1972.
MS Code § 17-17-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Solid Wastes Disposal|§ 17-17-33. Participation in regional solid waste disposal, recycling, and recovery systems authorized

 Counties, municipal and private companies are hereby authorized to participate in applicable approved regional solid waste disposal, recycling and recovery systems.
MS Code § 17-17-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Solid Wastes Disposal|§ 17-17-35. Entry and inspection of generating, treating, storage, transportation and disposal equipment, facilities, etc.

 Authorized employees or representatives of the department shall be authorized to enter and inspect generating, treating, storage, transportation and disposal equipment, facilities or sites to determine proper treatment, storage, transportation and/or disposal. Employees and/or representatives of the department shall be authorized to enter and inspect at any time vehicles transporting or disposing of wastes as outlined in this section.
MS Code § 17-17-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Solid Wastes Disposal|§ 17-17-37. Property rights in solid wastes

 The solid wastes involved shall become the lawful property of the local governments and/or commercial enterprises involved at the point of collection and in the absence of contractual provisions to the contrary, shall become the property of the operator of an approved system upon delivery to such operator whether delivery be at a transfer station or at a processing plant.
MS Code § 17-17-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Solid Wastes Disposal|§ 17-17-39. Construction or operation of authorized solid waste disposal systems or facilities not impaired

 Nothing in Sections 17-17-33 through 17-17-41 shall be construed to prohibit local governments from the construction or operation of approved sanitary landfills, or of any other heretofore or hereafter approved solid waste disposal system, it being the intent of Sections 17-17-33 through 17-17-41 that their provisions shall be supplementary to, and not restrictive of, any previously authorized solid waste disposal system, facility or operation, nor of any other such system, facility or operation which may be authorized in the future.
MS Code § 17-17-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Solid Wastes Disposal|§ 17-17-41. Construction or operation of recycling plants or sale or gift of solid wastes not prohibited

 Nothing in Sections 17-17-33 through 17-17-41 shall be construed to prohibit private enterprise or other agencies from the construction or operation of recycling plants or to prohibit the sale or gift of solid wastes to private enterprise or other agencies by local governments.
MS Code § 17-17-43 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Solid Wastes Disposal|§ 17-17-43. Procedures applicable to hearings before commission and permit board

 The procedures whereby the commission or an employee thereof may obtain a hearing before the commission on a violation of any provision of Sections 17-17-1 through 17-17-41 and Section 17-17-47 or of a regulation or of any order of the commission or whereby any interested person may obtain a hearing on matters within the jurisdiction of the commission or a hearing on any order of the commission shall be as prescribed in Sections 49-17-31 through 49-17-41.   Further, all proceedings before the permit board of the bureau of pollution and control shall be conducted in the manner prescribed by Section 49-17-29.
MS Code § 17-17-45 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Solid Wastes Disposal|§ 17-17-45. Appeal to chancery court

 In addition to any other remedies that might now be available, any person or interested party aggrieved by an order of the commission or of the permit board of the bureau of pollution control shall have the right to perfect an appeal to the appropriate chancery court in the manner set forth in Sections 49-17-41 and 49-17-29.
MS Code § 17-17-47 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Solid Wastes Disposal|§ 17-17-47. Exclusive authority of State Oil and Gas Board as to regulation of oil field waste products

  Notwithstanding any other provisions contained in this chapter, the State Oil and Gas Board shall continue to exercise the exclusive authority to make rules and regulations and issue permits governing the noncommercial disposal of oil field waste products and shall continue to exercise the exclusive authority to regulate Class II underground injection wells in accordance with the provisions of Section 53-1-17; provided, however, that to the extent that such oil field exploration and production waste products may likewise constitute hazardous wastes under the provisions of this chapter, such rules and regulations shall be subject to the approval of the commission in order to insure that they are consistent with the requirements of this chapter and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (Public Law 94-580).   The commission shall have the exclusive authority to regulate the commercial disposal of oil field exploration and production waste products subject to limitations set out in subsection (1) of this section.
MS Code § 17-17-48 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Solid Wastes Disposal|§ 17-17-48. Legislative intent as to regulation of radioactive waste disposal facilities

 It is the intent of this Legislature that the Mississippi Energy and Transportation Board shall have jurisdiction over state nuclear waste policy, activities and siting, including the long-term or temporary storage and/or disposal of high-level radioactive and transuranic waste, in accordance with the provisions of Sections 17-17-48 through 17-17-51 and Chapter 49 of Title 57, Mississippi Code of 1972.
MS Code § 17-17-51 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Solid Wastes Disposal|§ 17-17-51. Facilities licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

 Nothing in Sections 17-17-48 through 17-17-51 or in Chapter 49 of Title 57, Mississippi Code of 1972 prohibits or is intended to prohibit the shipment, receipt, use or on-site storage of nuclear fuel assemblies to a facility licensed by the nuclear regulatory commission, or the transportation from the facility of spent nuclear fuel assemblies to a licensed reprocessing plant or to a licensed away-from-reactor storage facility.   Provided further, that nothing in Sections 17-17-48 through 17-17-51 or in Chapter 49 of Title 57, Mississippi Code of 1972 prohibits or is intended to prohibit the on-site storage of low-level radioactive waste that is generated at a facility licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
MS Code § 17-17-55 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Solid Wastes Disposal|§ 17-17-55. Hazardous Waste Facility Site Revolving Fund; purpose of fund; rules and regulations

 There is hereby created within the State Treasury a revolving fund to be known as the "Hazardous Waste Facility Site Revolving Loan Fund," which shall be administered by the Department of Economic and Community Development, for the purpose of making loans to municipalities or counties in which commercial hazardous waste facilities permitted pursuant to Section 49-17-28 et seq. are located. Such loans shall be made for the purpose of constructing roads, railroads, utilities or the purchase and development of lands for industrial purposes. Any municipality or county within which such a facility is sited may make application for a loan from the Hazardous Waste Facility Site Revolving Loan Fund, and the Department of Economic and Community Development is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt and put into effect all reasonable rules and regulations that it may deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this section, which shall include, without limitation, the following:   Procedures for applying for the loans;   Selection criteria for evaluating if a proposed facility meets Mississippi's needs and for choosing between various loan applications;   Procedures for funding and retiring loans; and   Procedures to be followed if default occurs in the repayment of loans.   In addition, the Department of Economic and Community Development is empowered to designate that any part or all of those funds to be disbursed pursuant to Section 17-17-53(2)(c) be paid directly against the principal balance of any loan outstanding hereunder.
MS Code § 17-17-57 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Solid Wastes Disposal|§ 17-17-57. Immunity of persons rendering aid in accidents involving discharge of hazardous materials

  For the purposes of this section, the following words shall have the meaning ascribed herein unless the context clearly requires otherwise:   "Discharge" shall include leakage, seepage or other release of any hazardous material.   "Hazardous materials" shall include all materials and substances which are now or hereafter designated or defined as hazardous by any state or federal law or by regulation of any state or federal agency.   "Person" shall include any individual, partnership, corporation, association or other entity.     Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, no person who in good faith and in the exercise of reasonable care, and not in anticipation or expectation of receiving compensation therefor, renders assistance or advice in mitigating or attempting to mitigate the effects of an actual or threatened discharge of hazardous materials, or in preventing, cleaning up or disposing of or in attempting to prevent, clean up or dispose of any such discharge, shall be subject to civil liabilities or penalties as a result of any act committed in good faith and in the exercise of reasonable care or omission in good faith and in the exercise of reasonable care by such person in rendering emergency assistance, or advice.   Nothing in subsection (2) of this section shall be construed to limit the liability of any person for any act not directly related to the assistance or advice in mitigating or attempting to mitigate the effects of an actual or threatened discharge of hazardous materials, or in preventing, cleaning up or disposing of or in attempting to prevent, clean up or dispose of any such discharge.   The immunities provided in subsection (2) of this section shall not apply to any person whose act or omission caused in whole or in part such actual or threatened discharge and who would otherwise be liable therefor.   Nothing in subsection (2) of this section shall be construed to limit or otherwise affect the liability of any person for damages resulting from such person's gross negligence, or from such person's reckless, wanton or intentional conduct.