2005 Vermont Code - § 8014. — Enforcement of final orders; collection actions

§ 8014. Enforcement of final orders; collection actions

(a) The secretary may seek enforcement of a final administrative order or a landfill extension order in the superior or district court or before the environmental court.

(b) If a penalty is assessed and the respondent fails to pay the assessed penalty within the time prescribed, the secretary may bring a collection action in any superior or district court.

(c) The secretary may contract with private collection agencies, or with attorneys engaged for similar purposes, for the collection of penalties or other monetary awards owed pursuant to assurances of discontinuance, final administrative orders, emergency administrative orders, or judgments after hearing or other judicial rulings. The secretary may agree to pay private collection agencies or attorneys a fixed rate for services rendered or a percentage of the amount actually collected by the agencies or attorneys and remitted to the secretary. Notwithstanding 32 V.S.A. § 502, the secretary may charge against collections an agreed-upon fixed rate or percentage of collections, for the purpose of making payments to private collection agencies or attorneys. (Added 1989, No. 98, § 1; amended 1991, No. 202 (Adj. Sess.), § 6, eff. May 27, 1992; amended 1993, No. 232 (Adj. Sess.), § 38, eff. March 15, 1995; 1999, No. 155 (Adj. Sess.), § 8.)