General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 21H Solid Waste Facilities
- Massachusetts General Laws - Legislative determination and declaration of purpose - Chapter 21H, Section 1
(a) It is hereby determined that: (1) There is a critical need to eliminate, mitigate and prevent the nuisances and adverse public health effects associated...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 21H, Section 2
As used in this chapter, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings: “Assessment”, a project to investigate, monitor,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Financial assistance to public bodies - Chapter 21H, Section 3
(a) The department may provide financial assistance to public bodies for up to one hundred per cent of the costs of the clean up of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Discovery and assessment of solid waste pollution; liability for costs; adjudicatory hearings; judicial review - Chapter 21H, Section 4
The department is hereby authorized and directed to establish a program for (i) the discovery and assessment of pollution, or threats of pollution, caused by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Testing and control of hazardous emissions from refuse burning facilities - Chapter 21H, Section 5
The department shall on a continual basis determine in cooperation with the department of public health (1) whether the air emissions and the ash residue...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Acid gas scrubbers - Chapter 21H, Section 6
All resource recovery facilities and other solid waste incinerators shall operate with acid gas scrubbers, or such other technology providing equal or greater protection to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Implementation of IMERC standards by department - Chapter 21H, Section 6A
The department shall participate in the implementation of IMERC standards established at the Northeast Waste Management Officials Association to assist in carrying out the requirements...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notification of mercury-added products offered for final sale, use or distribution in commonwealth - Chapter 21H, Section 6B
(a) No mercury-added product shall be offered for final sale or use or distributed in the commonwealth without notification in writing by the manufacturer of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Restrictions on use and sale of mercury-added vehicle switches; plan for removal and recycling of mercury-added components in end-of-life vehicles - Chapter 21H, Section 6C
(a) No person shall sell or offer to sell or distribute a motor vehicle manufactured on or after January 1, 2007, containing 1 or more...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of mercury-added thermostats and other mercury-added products - Chapter 21H, Section 6D
(a) No person shall sell or offer to sell or distribute a mercury-added thermostat in the commonwealth. (b) No person shall sell or offer to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sale or distribution of mercury switch or mercury relay; exceptions - Chapter 21H, Section 6E
(a) No person shall sell or offer to sell or distribute a mercury switch or mercury relay, individually or as a product component. This prohibition...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Exemptions from prohibitions in Secs. 6D and 6E; applications; fees - Chapter 21H, Section 6F
(a) The department, at its discretion and in consultation with the executive office of economic development and the department of public health, may allow for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Purchase of elemental mercury, mercury compounds and mercury-added equipment and materials by schools - Chapter 21H, Section 6G
No school in the commonwealth shall purchase for use in a primary or secondary classroom elemental mercury, mercury compounds or mercury-added instructional equipment and materials,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Disclosure requirements for mercury-added formulated product manufacturers - Chapter 21H, Section 6H
Every manufacturer of a mercury-added formulated product shall, upon a written request from a health care facility, disclose in writing the mercury content of any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Disposal of mercury-added products; education program; discharge of mercury into water; scrap recycling of multi-component products containing mercury - Chapter 21H, Section 6I
(a) No person, household, business, school, healthcare facility or state or municipal government shall knowingly dispose of a mercury-added product in any manner other than...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of mercury-added products; collection plan; mercury-added lamps - Chapter 21H, Section 6J
(a) No person shall sell or offer to sell or distribute a mercury-added product in the commonwealth unless the manufacturer has created and filed with...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Labeling requirements for mercury-added products - Chapter 21H, Section 6K
(a) No person shall sell a mercury-added product unless the product is labeled by the manufacturer pursuant to this section. The label, constructed of materials...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Collection of mercury-added products by solid waste collectors - Chapter 21H, Section 6L
A solid waste collector shall refuse to collect the contents of a solid waste container that the collector knows or reasonable should know contains 1...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Preference for purchase of products not containing mercury by state procurement officer, university system and agencies - Chapter 21H, Section 6M
The state procurement officer, the state university system and state agencies shall give preference to the purchase of equipment, supplies and other products that do...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations - Chapter 21H, Section 6N
The department shall adopt rules and regulations as may be necessary for the implementation of this chapter.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Composting programs - Chapter 21H, Section 7
The department, in consultation with the department of food and agriculture, shall establish a program to provide for recycling through composting of leaves and other...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 21H, Section 8
Any person who violates any provision of this chapter, or any rule or regulation, order, permit, or approval issued or adopted under the provisions of...
Last modified: September 11, 2015