(A) Any person who owns, leases, operates or controls any facility or equipment, whether by railway, air, land or water, or vehicles including private, governmental or commercial, from which a discharge of hazardous materials has occurred or threatened to occur in the city, shall be liable jointly and severally to the city for any expenses incurred by the city in connection with preventing, cleaning up or disposing of or attempting to prevent, clean up or dispose of any such discharge or threatened discharge. This provision shall not release the owner of the hazardous material from a simultaneous liability for cleanup or disposal.
(B) Any person who owns, leases, operates or controls any facility, equipment or vehicles from which a discharge of hazardous materials has occurred outside of the city and which permeates or discharges in any part of the city shall be liable jointly and severally to the city for any expenses incurred by the city in connection with preventing, cleaning up or disposing of or attempting to prevent, clean up or dispose of any such discharge. This provision shall not release the owner of the hazardous material from a simultaneous liability for cleanup or disposal.
(Prior Code, § 18-42) (Ord. 91-59, passed 9-3-1991; Ord. 2015-56, passed 10-5-2015)