2006 Alabama Code - Section 22-30-15.1 — Penalty for violation of safety and hazardous materials regulations.

Subject to Section 22-30-21, the department, acting through the commission, is authorized to promulgate regulations establishing such standards, applicable to transporters of hazardous waste identified or listed under this chapter, as may be necessary to protect human health or the environment. Such standards shall include but not be limited to the following:

(1) Unless exempted from regulation by this chapter or rules promulgated under authority of this chapter, obtaining a permit from the department;

(2) Completing the manifest form in conjunction with the generator;

(3) Assuring that all hazardous wastes are transported to the permitted or interim status hazardous waste treatment, storage facility or disposal facility or alternate facility designated on the manifest or, if rejected by such facility, returned to the generator;

(4) Maintaining records of hazardous waste transported, and their source and delivery points; and

(5) Transporting such waste only if properly labeled.

(Acts 1978, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 129, p. 1843, §15; Acts 1984, No. 84-50, §1; Acts 1987, 87-807, p. 1590, §11.)