The administration and enforcement of the Solid Wastes Disposal Law of 1974 are hereby transferred from the State Board of Health to the Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality and the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality. All personnel, records, property, equipment and funds allocated to the State Board of Health exclusively for the administration and enforcement of the Solid Wastes Disposal Law of 1974, as amended, are hereby transferred to and placed under the supervision and control of the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities
Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal
§ 17-17-9. Burning of garbage, etc.
§ 17-17-11. Hauling of solid waste
§ 17-17-17. Unauthorized dumps as public nuisance per se
§ 17-17-29. Penalties; injunction; recovery of cost of remedial action; disposition of fines
§ 17-17-31. Provisions supplemental
§ 17-17-37. Property rights in solid wastes
§ 17-17-43. Procedures applicable to hearings before commission and permit board
§ 17-17-45. Appeal to chancery court
§ 17-17-48. Legislative intent as to regulation of radioactive waste disposal facilities
§ 17-17-51. Facilities licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
§ 17-17-55. Hazardous Waste Facility Site Revolving Fund; purpose of fund; rules and regulations