(a) Before accepting a load of liquid waste, a transporter shall determine the nature of the liquid waste and whether the transporter’s equipment is sufficient to properly handle the transportation without spillage, leaks or release of toxic, odorous or harmful gasses. Upon delivery of the waste to the disposer, the transporter shall inform the disposer of the nature of the waste.
(b) A transporter pumping waste from a liquid waste facility shall remove 100% of the contents of such facility. However, in the case of septic tanks, a small residual of sludge may be left for seeding purposes.
(c) A transporter operating under a city permit shall not transport hazardous waste or class 1 nonhazardous industrial solid waste in a vehicle registered under the permit.
(d) A transporter operating under a city permit shall not commingle hazardous waste or class 1 nonhazardous industrial solid waste with liquid waste.
(e) A transporter shall not mix incompatible wastes within the same container. A transporter shall not use the same container or pumping equipment to collect or transport liquid waste which is incompatible with previously handled waste, without first emptying and cleaning the container and equipment. A transporter may mix wastes with different characteristics if the disposer to which the waste is being transported is authorized to store, process or dispose of such mixed wastes.
(f) A transporter shall handle and dispose of grease trap wastes or grit trap wastes commingled with septage at an authorized, licensed, disposal site. This waste shall not be disposed of in a publicly owned treatment works.
(g) A transporter shall not operate a vehicle that fails to meet the requirements of § 12.5-706(i).
(h) A transporter shall allow the director and any peace officer to inspect vehicles registered under a permit, upon their request.
(i) A transporter shall allow the director and any peace officer to obtain samples of liquid waste from the transporter’s vehicle, upon their request.
(j) A transporter shall not empty liquid wastes into a generator’s solid waste receptacles.
(k) A transporter operating under a city permit shall use a manifest system book consisting of five-part trip tickets, purchased from the director for a fee established by the city council, in the following manner.
(1) Each manifest system book shall be used exclusively for a single vehicle.
(2) A transporter will complete one trip ticket for each individual collection, with the exception of chemical toilet companies servicing their own units. Such companies shall be exempt from trip ticket requirements, but shall be required to submit to the director a monthly total of volumes disposed of and the locations of such disposal, no later than the tenth day of the month following the month in which the disposal occurred.
(3) The transporter shall sign the original part of a trip ticket and request the generator to do the same at the time of liquid waste collection. The transporter shall not remove liquid waste from the generator’s premises until the generator signs the trip ticket. The transporter shall leave the first copy (yellow) of the trip ticket with the generator.
(4) The transporter shall have the disposer sign the original part of the trip ticket at the time the waste is disposed of, and shall leave the second copy (pink) of the trip ticket with the disposer.
(5) The transporter shall retain the third copy (green) of the trip ticket for the transporter’s own records.
(6) The transporter shall return the fourth copy of the trip ticket to the generator within 15 days after the waste is received at the disposal facility.
(7) The transporter shall deliver to the director all completed original trip tickets no later than the tenth day of the month following the month in which they were completed.
(8) The transporter shall retain its copies of all trip tickets for a period of five years, and shall make such copies available to the director, upon request, for inspection at all reasonable times.
(l) A person commits an offense if the person engages in the transportation of liquid waste and fails to comply with any provision of this section.
(Ord. 12274, § 1, passed 11-28-1995)