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After notice and hearing the director may suspend for up to six months or may revoke a permit if the director determines that:
(a) The permit holder, a partner of the permit holder, a principal in the permit holder’s business, permit holder’s manager or operator, or an officer of permit holder:
(1) Has within the five years preceding the date of the hearing been convicted of a misdemeanor that is punishable by confinement and/or by a fine exceeding $500, and which relates directly to the duty or responsibility in operating a liquid waste transportation business; or
(2) Has been convicted of a felony which relates directly to the duty or responsibility in operating a liquid waste transportation business.
(b) The permit holder failed to comply with any of the permit conditions stated in § 12.5-709;
(c) The permit holder or an employee failed to use the manifest system book in compliance with this article, or to maintain manifests for five years, or to allow the director to inspect the manifests;
(d) The permit holder or an employee improperly disposed of liquid waste;
(e) The permit holder or an employee commingled liquid waste with hazardous waste or class 1 nonhazardous industrial solid waste in a city-permitted vehicle;
(f) The permit holder or an employee refused or failed to allow the director or a peace officer to inspect a liquid waste transportation vehicle or obtain liquid waste samples from such vehicle;
(g) The permit holder or any employee thereof, within the 12 months preceding the hearing, was convicted of violating this article; or
(h) The permit holder’s liquid waste transporter registration issued by the commission expired, or was suspended or revoked.
(Ord. 12274, § 1, passed 11-28-1995)
(a) A generator shall have liquid waste removed from its liquid waste facilities only by a transporter holding a valid permit issued by the director to do so.
(b) Prior to liquid wastes being removed from its premises a generator shall determine whether the disposer who will be disposing of the waste is permitted or approved for such by the commission.
(c) A generator shall determine whether its liquid waste contains hazardous waste or class 1 nonhazardous industrial solid waste, and shall not have hazardous wastes, class 1 nonhazardous industrial solid waste, or hazardous wastes or class 1 nonhazardous industrial solid wastes combined with liquid wastes removed from its premises by a transporter operating under a city permit.
(d) Prior to a transporter leaving a generator’s premises with a load of liquid waste, a generator shall sign the original of a city trip ticket prepared by the transporter.
(e) A generator shall keep a copy of all city trip tickets for liquid waste collected from its premises, for a period of five years, and shall make such trip ticket copies available to the director for inspection at all reasonable times.
(f) A generator shall install or provide liquid waste facilities on its premises of such type and size as specified by the director.
(g) A generator shall maintain its liquid waste facilities as follows:
(1) Liquid waste facilities shall be maintained in continuous, proper working condition;
(2) Pumping out of wastes:
a. Grease traps located upon the premises of food establishments shall be 100% pumped out a minimum of every 90 days, and at all other times as necessary to maintain their effectiveness. The director may order a generator to have its grease traps pumped out more frequently than every 90 days if the director determines such is necessary for the protection of the sanitary sewer.
b. Grit traps shall be 100% pumped out a minimum of once per year, and at all other times as necessary to maintain their effectiveness. The director may order a generator to have its grit traps pumped out more frequently than once per year if the director determines such is necessary for the protection of the sanitary sewer.
c. Septic tanks shall be pumped out as often as necessary to maintain their effectiveness, and shall be inspected a minimum of once per year. The tanks shall be 100% pumped out except for a small residual of sludge left for seeding purposes.
(4) Liquid waste facilities shall be inspected for seepage into the surrounding media whenever the trap has been pumped. The generator shall repair, replace or install apparatus and equipment as necessary to ensure the proper operation and function of the liquid waste facilities.
(h) A generator shall supervise the servicing of the generator’s liquid waste facilities, and shall ensure that they are completely emptied by the transporter during such servicing.
(i) A generator shall maintain records of liquid waste facility inspections for three years, and shall make such records available to the director for inspection at all reasonable times.
(j) A generator shall report all spills occurring during collection to the director within 24 hours.
(k) A generator shall immediately clean up or cause to be cleaned up all spills of liquid waste and shall have the waste properly disposed of by a transporter.
(l) A person commits an offense if the person is a generator of liquid waste and fails to comply with any provision of this section or any order of the director authorized by this section.
(m) A person commits an offense if the person is a generator of liquid waste and allows liquid waste that emits noxious odors or offensive odors, or that is creating an unsanitary condition or which is injurious to the public health to accumulate upon premises under the person’s control.
(Ord. 12274, § 1, passed 11-28-1995)
(a) A disposer shall sign the original of a city trip ticket prepared by a transporter operating under a city permit for all liquid waste received on the disposer’s premises from such transporter.
(b) The disposer shall note any significant discrepancies on each copy of the trip ticket.
(1) Trip ticket discrepancies are differences between the quantity of type of waste designated on the trip ticket, and the quantity or type of waste a disposer actually received.
(2) Significant discrepancies in type are obvious differences which can be discovered by inspection or waste analysis. Significant discrepancies in quantity are:
a. For bulk weight, variations greater than 10% in weight; and
b. For liquid waste, any variation greater than 15% in gallons.
(c) A person commits an offense if the person disposes of liquid waste in violation of subsection (a) or (b) of this section.
(d) In order to retain city approval of its disposal site, a disposer shall comply with subsections (a) and (b) of this section, and shall:
(1) Maintain all valid federal, state and local permits required to operate a disposal site;
(2) Comply with all federal, state and local laws pertaining to the operations of the disposal site;
(3) Accept only those classes of liquid waste authorized under federal, state and local laws; and
(4) Dispose of liquid waste in accordance with federal, state and local laws.
(Ord. 12274, § 1, passed 11-28-1995)
(a) A permit holder shall immediately notify the director in writing when the liquid waste transportation business is sold or ceases to operate.
(b) In addition to the written notification required in subsection (a) above, the permit holder shall immediately deliver to the director:
(1) All completed original trip tickets in permit holder’s possession;
(2) All unused trip tickets in permit holder’s possession; and
(3) Permit holder’s permit.
(c) The permit holder shall remove the city registration number from all liquid waste transportation vehicles upon the sale or cessation of operation of the liquid waste transportation business.
(d) A person commits an offense if the person has a permit to transport liquid waste and violates any provision of this section.
(e) A permit shall be invalid upon the sale or cessation of operation of a liquid waste transportation business.
(Ord. 12274, § 1, passed 11-28-1995)
All permits issued by the director to liquid waste transporters pursuant to the predecessor of this article shall remain valid until their expiration or until their revocation pursuant to the ordinance under which they were issued.
(Ord. 12274, § 1, passed 11-28-1995)
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