NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 311

SENATE BILL 367

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE 13-B OF THE GENERAL STATUTES TO PROVIDE THEREIN FOR SOLID WASTE RECYCLING AND RESOURCE RECOVERY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Article 13-B of Chapter 130 of the General Statutes is amended by changing the title thereof to "Solid Waste Management."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 130-166.16 is amended by adding the following definitions and renumbering the definitions in alphabetical order:

" 'Natural resources' ‑ all materials which have useful physical or chemical properties which exist, unused, in nature.

'Recycling' ‑ the process by which recovered resources are transformed into new products in such a manner that the original products lose their identity.

'Resource recovery' ‑ the process of obtaining material or energy resources from solid waste.

'Solid Waste Management' ‑ the purposeful, systematic control of the generation, storage, collection, transport, separation, processing, recycling, recovery and disposal of solid waste."

Sec. 3.  G.S. 130-166.17 is rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 130-166.17.  Solid waste unit in Department of Human Resources. — For the purpose of promoting and preserving an environment that is conducive to public health and welfare, and preventing the creation of nuisances and the depletion of our natural resources, the Department of Human Resources shall maintain an appropriate administrative unit to promote sanitary processing, treatment, disposal, and overall management of solid waste and the greatest possible recycling and recovery of the resources of the State, and the Department shall employ and retain such qualified personnel as may be necessary."

Sec. 4.  G.S. 130-166.18 is amended by deleting therefrom each time it appears the word "disposal" and substituting in lieu thereof the word "management."

Sec. 5.  This act shall become effective September 1, 1975.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of May, 1975.