Section 30. Applicability

A. This chapter applies to each owner and/or operator of a vessel transporting solid wastes or regulated medical wastes for the purposes of commercial carriage as cargo, and each owner or operator of a receiving facility. This chapter also applies to the receiving facilities and vessels transporting solid wastes or regulated medical wastes upon the navigable waters of the Commonwealth to the extent allowable under state law.

B. This chapter does not apply to a public vessel as defined under 9VAC20-170-10, the owner and operator of a public vessel, vessels transporting solid wastes or regulated medical wastes incidental to their predominant business or purposes, vessels transporting solid wastes or regulated medical wastes generated during normal operations of the vessel, solid wastes or regulated medical wastes generated during the normal operations of the vessel, and solid wastes excluded or conditionally exempted pursuant to 9VAC20-81-95 of the Solid Waste Management Regulations.

Historical Notes

Derived from Volume 19, Issue 19, eff. July 2, 2003; amended, Volume 27, Issue 22, eff. August 3, 2011.

Statutory Authority

§§ 10.1-1402 and 10.1-1454.1 of the Code of Virginia.