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Current Status Bill Number:View additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.3881 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:19990408 Primary Sponsor:Witherspoon All Sponsors:Witherspoon, Edge and Keegan Drafted Document Number:l:\council\bills\ggs\22271dc99.doc Residing Body:House Current Committee:Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs Com 20 HANR Subject:Industrial solid waste landfills, commercial; location distances; Water and Sewer, Hazardous and Nuclear Waste History Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ ______________________________________ _______ ____________ House 19990408 Introduced, read first time, 20 HANR referred to Committee Versions of This Bill
TO AMEND SECTION 44-96-325, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL SOLID WASTE LANDFILLS, SO AS TO INCREASE THE DISTANCE A COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL SOLID WASTE LANDFILL MUST BE LOCATED FROM A RESIDENCE, HOSPITAL, CHURCH, OR PUBLICLY-OWNED RECREATIONAL PARK FROM ONE THOUSAND FEET TO THREE THOUSAND FEET.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 44-96-325 of the 1976 Code, as added by Act 100 of 1997, is amended to read:
"Section 44-96-325. A commercial industrial solid waste landfill or an expansion permitted after the effective date of this section shall not be located within one three thousand feet of a residence, hospital, church, or publicly-owned recreational park areas. For the purpose of this section only, the term 'commercial industrial solid waste landfill' means an industrial solid waste landfill which accepts industrial solid waste from more than one generator of industrial solid waste."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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