2005 Arizona Revised Statutes - Revised Statutes §49-746  Private enterprise recycling and solid waste management

A. A municipality of this state, with a population exceeding sixty thousand, shall not prohibit or unreasonably restrain a private enterprise from delivering commercial or industrial recycling services or commercial or industrial solid waste management services within or to the municipality.

B. The municipality shall prescribe rules for the delivery of recycling services and commercial or industrial solid waste management services that promote availability of these services and promote competition in the delivery of these services.

C. It shall not be presumed to be an unreasonable restraint for a municipality to have limited the number of commercial or industrial solid waste management service companies to one company for each sixty thousand or fewer persons in order to facilitate the regulation of solid waste collection pursuant to section 49-765 provided that at least seven companies are permitted under such an ordinance.

D. For purposes of this section, the population of a municipality is deemed to be the official estimate as last determined by the department of economic security pursuant to section 41-1954.