Title 23, Title 23 and Safety

Any city or town council may order the owner or occupant of any premises in the city or town to remove at his or her own expense any nuisance, refuse, solid waste, source of filth, or filth, found on these premises, within twenty-four (24) hours, or any other time as the council …

(a) The notice shall be in writing signed by the city or town clerk or designee and served upon the owner or occupant in accordance with subdivision (1) or (2) as follows: (1) The notice shall be served upon: (i) An individual by delivering a copy of the notice to him or her pers…

If the owner or occupant fails to comply with the order, the city or town council may cause the nuisance, source of filth, refuse, solid waste, or filth to be removed; and all expenses incurred by the city or town shall be paid by the owner, occupant, or other person who caused o…

The city or town councils of the several cities and towns may pass any ordinances, not inconsistent with chapter 1 of title 10, as they may deem most effectual for the prevention, suppression, or abatement of any nuisance as is described in §§ 11-30-1 or 11-30-2, or the councils …

The city and town councils of the several cities and towns when satisfied upon examination that any cellar, rooms, tenement, or building in its city or town, occupied as a dwelling place, has become, by reason of the number of occupants or want of cleanliness or other cause, unfi…

The town council of any town, or the city council of any city, may establish any regulations as they may deem proper in reference to cattle or other animals coming from outside this state by railroad, for the health and safety of the cattle and other animals, for preventing the o…

(a) No person, firm, corporation, partnership, or association shall engage in the business of pumping, cleaning, and/or transporting septage, industrial wastes, or oil waste unless a license is obtained from the department of environmental management. (b) Any person, firm, corpor…

Upon an application being approved, the department of environmental management shall issue a license to the applicant for a reasonable fee to cover the costs of administration. All licenses shall expire on June 30 of each year unless sooner suspended or revoked, and shall be rene…

The director of the department of environmental management shall have full power to make orders regulating the methods and equipment employed in the cleaning operations, the disposal of waste, and for the enforcement of this chapter.

Any person who willfully fails to comply with the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100) or by imprisonment for not more than thirty (30) days or both.

All compliance orders of the director of the department of environmental management and their enforcement, and all hearings and appeals by a person aggrieved by an order of the director, including his or her failure to issue a license authorized by this chapter, shall be in accor…

(a) No parcel of real property that is not readily accessible to a public sewer system shall be advertised or represented as being for sale or other transfer or conveyance as a “buildable”, or “developable” property, so called, unless the seller shall first apply for and receive …

(a) Prior to advertising or representing any parcel of property as being for sale or other transfer or conveyance as a “buildable” or “developable” property, so called, the seller shall cause a registered professional engineer or registered professional land surveyor to submit an…

Except as agreed to between the parties to a sale, the cost of the tests and determinations shall be borne by the buyer in the event that the sale is consummated. If the sale is not consummated for the reason that the department can make no certification, the cost of the tests an…

The department of environmental management shall keep the records of all percolation tests, ground water table elevation determinations performed, and also a record of all other required information for a period of at least fifteen (15) years. The director of environmental manage…

The requirements of this chapter shall not apply to any conveyance if the deed contains an express condition that the parties to it covenant that no building will be erected on this land during ownership by the grantee which will require sanitary sewage disposal, and a statement …

All of the requirements of this chapter may be expressly waived in writing by all parties to a conveyance, provided the written waiver is executed by all parties to the sale and the waiver is filed with the department of environmental management prior to the transfer of the prope…

Anyone found guilty of falsifying data or presenting misleading information to the department of environmental management shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

Any person aggrieved or injured by the purchase of real property based on tests or data which are false or misleading, shall have the right to bring a court action within two (2) years after the fact becomes known to him or her, to rescind the sale and to be reimbursed the purcha…

On July 21, 1992, this section shall affect existing approvals, renewals, tests, determinations, and/or data as follows: (1) All persons possessing valid, existing approvals that are based upon tests, determinations and/or data which will be more than five (5) years old at the ti…

Upon June 20, 1995, this section shall be applicable to all existing and future approvals of individual sewage disposal system applications, renewals, tests, determinations and/or data. Tests, determinations and/or data shall be considered valid for a period of five (5) years fro…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Used Oil Recycling Act”.

The legislature finds that over two million gallons (2,000,000 gals.) of used oil are generated each year in the state, less than half of which is presently reclaimed; that used oil is an increasingly valuable and scarce resource that can and should be recycled; and that legislat…

It shall be the policy of the state to encourage the collection and recycling of oil to the maximum extent possible, by means which are economically feasible and environmentally sound, in order to conserve irreplaceable petroleum resources, preserve, and enhance the quality of hu…

As used in this chapter: (1) “Director” means the director of the department of environmental management; (2) “Person” means any individual, private or public corporation, partnership, cooperative, association, estate, municipality, political or jurisdictional subdivision, or gov…

No person shall collect, transport, transfer, store, recycle, use, or dispose of used oil by discharge to sewers, drainage systems, surface or ground water, watercourses, or marine waters, or by incineration or deposit on land, unless in accordance with the Hazardous Waste Manage…

The director shall conduct a public education program to inform the public of the need for and the benefits of collecting and recycling used oil in order to conserve resources and preserve the environment. As part of this program, the director shall: (1) Require persons regularly…

The director shall designate Rhode Island state motor vehicle inspection facilities and any other facilities it deems appropriate which are safe and conveniently located and which agree to serve as collection facilities for the deposit of used oil, at no cost to a person making t…

A person may represent any product made in whole or in part from used oil to be substantially equivalent to a product made from new oil for a particular end use, if substantial equivalency has been determined in accordance with rules prescribed by the federal trade commission und…

All officials of this state shall encourage the purchase of recycled oil products represented as substantially equivalent to products made from new oil in accordance with § 23-19.6-8 of this chapter.

This chapter shall be known as and may be cited as the “Hazardous Waste Management Facilities Act”.

(a) If on or after ninety (90) days following the establishment of a local assessment committee or issuance of state permits required under the Hazardous Waste Management Act, chapter 19.1 of this title, whichever is later, the developer or the chief elected official of the host …

Insofar as the terms and conditions of a siting or impact agreement address mitigation of impacts also subject to the provisions of the Hazardous Waste Management Act, chapter 19.1 of this title, these terms and conditions shall become attached to and enforceable as conditions of…

Siting and impact agreements in their entirety and all documents and records related to these agreements shall be open to public inspection at a convenient location during normal business hours, and shall be subject to other provisions of chapter 2 of title 38.

No compensation or financial benefits, other than taxes on real or personal property, received by a host or neighboring community under a siting or impact agreement, shall be included in the calculation of any state aid or assistance to the community.

If the provisions of this chapter are inconsistent with the provisions of any other law or ordinance, general, special or local, the provisions of this chapter shall be controlling.

(a) The provisions of this chapter shall be interpreted and construed liberally in aid of its declared purpose. If any provisions of this chapter, or of any rule or regulation issued under this chapter, is held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remainder of the ch…

The general assembly recognizes and declares that the people of the state desire to promote high standards of human health and a clean and wholesome environment; that industries within the state generate hazardous wastes in the course of their operations and have difficulty in ob…

The following words and phrases have the meanings ascribed to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) “Chief elected official” means the mayor, elected city or town administrator or, in the absence of these officials, the city or town council pres…

(a) Hazardous waste management facilities, other than landfills and underground injection wells, shall be a permitted use on any locus zoned for industrial use involving manufacturing processes. (b) Cities and towns shall not change the zoning designation of any locus zoned for i…

(a)(1) No hazardous waste management facility shall be located or operated in any community nor shall any local permit for construction or substantial alteration of the facility be issued unless there is in force a siting agreement between the host community and the developer and…

(a) For purposes of negotiating siting and impact agreements, local assessment committees shall be constituted by host and any neighboring communities no later than forty-five (45) days after the issuance of necessary state permits for construction or substantial alteration of a …

(a) Reasonable costs incurred by the host community for the purpose of discharging its powers and duties under this chapter including, but not limited to, conducting studies or assessments, hiring expert witnesses, conducting negotiations, and participating in arbitration, shall …

(a) The local siting agreement shall specify the terms, conditions, and provisions under which a hazardous waste management facility shall be sited, constructed, operated, maintained and/or altered, including, but not limited to, the following terms, conditions, and provisions: (…

(a)(1) A neighboring community, as defined in § 23-19.7-3(12), may, upon a showing of probable and significant adverse impact, in accordance with the standards procedures enumerated under subsections (c) and (d), enter into an impact agreement with a hazardous waste management fa…

This chapter may be cited as the “Hazardous Waste Cleanup Good Samaritan Act”.