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(a) Material produced or collected outside the City of New York will not be received or accepted from any person.
(b) Material will not be received or accepted at any location unless (1) the person offering it tenders a debit card pursuant to 16 RCNY § 2-06, as applicable, for each load at the rates in effect when such material is received; and (2) unless the vehicle body and/or container clearly displays an official notice from the Department stating the cubic yard capacity of such vehicle and/or any identification number as required by the Department.
(c) Material will not be received or accepted at a Marine Unloading Plant. If the Department designates an area within the site of a Marine Unloading Plant with vehicular access through the inland or upland boundaries of the Plant site as a landfill, materials otherwise acceptable at Truck Landfills generally will be received and accepted at such a landfill.
(d) Unburnable materials will not be received or accepted at incinerators.
(e) Dangerous materials will not be received or accepted at any point, except as provided by these Rules.
(f) Burnable materials will not be received or accepted at truck landfills or marine transfer stations during any period in which the nearest incinerator is accepting burnable material.
(g) Material will be received and accepted at particular locations only while each is open for that purpose. The Commissioner shall determine when a particular location be open.
(h) Material will be received and accepted only when delivered in a vehicle displaying a decal issued for the particular vehicle by the Department of Sanitation indicating the cubic yard capacity of such vehicle and a waste conveyance truck permit or license issued for the particular vehicle in accordance with Subchapter 18 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Administrative Code of the City of New York.
(i) Roll-on/Roll-off containers whose bodies are permanently enclosed and are of a welded steel construction will be accepted at incinerators, provided that the person, permittee, or licensee offering such container complies with all rules and regulations of the Department. All other Roll-on/Roll-off containers shall not be accepted at any incinerator.
(j) Except as provided in subdivision (k) below, overweight vehicles as defined in this subdivision (j) will not be received or accepted at Department disposal facilities as follows:
(1) At Marine Transfer Stations trucks weighing over 40 tons gross will not be received or accepted for disposal of materials.
(2) At landfills and compost facilities trucks weighing over 60 tons gross will not be received or accepted for disposal of materials.
(3) At incinerators trucks weighing over 60 tons gross will not be received or accepted for disposal of materials.
(k) Any person, licensee, or permittee who shall be found to have violated any provisions of these Rules may have his dumping privileges suspended by the Commissioner for a period not to exceed 30 days. In the case of a violation of 16 RCNY § 2-02(j) the following will occur: (1) upon the first violation of such paragraph the materials may be accepted for disposal and an oral warning will be given to the driver of the overweight vehicle. Such oral warning will be followed by a written warning indicating that a second and/or any subsequent violation(s) will result in the suspension of the dumping privileges of the violating person, licensee or permittee for a period not to exceed 30 days; upon suspension, notice of the cause thereof shall be mailed to the violating person, licensee or permittee within two days thereafter (Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays excluded), and in the same notice the violating person, licensee or permittee shall be informed of the time and place at which the Commissioner or his representative will receive such explanation, excuse, or justification as the violating person, licensee or permittee may care to offer. If the violating person, licensee or permittee shall fail to avail himself of such opportunity at the time and place named, or if after considering the matter submitted by the violating person, licensee or permittee and such other matter as he may deem pertinent, the Commissioner shall be of the opinion that it is not in the public interest to reinstate the dumping privileges, he may order its continued suspension, reinstatement upon compliance with conditions named by him, or revocation effective at a time named by him or for failure to comply with the conditions named by him within the time limited by him. Notice of such decision of the Commissioner and of any revocation shall be mailed to the violating person, licensee or permittee within two days (Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays excluded), after it is made by the Commissioner.
(l) In the event that any material is offered for disposal, discharged, or otherwise disposed of at any incinerator, Marine Transfer Station, Compost Facility or Truck Landfill, the receipt of which is not authorized or permitted by these Rules, or any other applicable federal, state, or local law or rule, then the person or permittee offering such material shall be responsible for all costs and expenses incurred by the City as determined by the Commissioner in processing such material. These costs include, but are not limited to, the cost of any chemical or other analysis of such materials, the cost of segregation of such material, the cost of providing security, if necessary, the cost of removal and disposal of such material, and any other cost incurred by the City as a result of the dumping or discharge or the attempt to dump such material at any of the above enumerated facilities. The Commissioner reserves the right to direct such person to remove such material within 48 hours of written notification. In addition, in the event dumping privileges have been suspended as provided for under 16 RCNY § 2-02(k), the Commissioner may, as a condition of reinstatement of such dumping privileges, require such person to reimburse the City for such costs as provided for under this subdivision.
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