Rhode Island General Laws
Chapter 23-19 - Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation
Section 23-19-13.5. - Interim rates.

§ 23-19-13.5. Interim rates.
The municipal tipping fee charged by the resource recovery corporation shall be as follows:
(1) Thirty-two dollars ($32.00) per ton from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2015, for any municipality that recycles between zero percent (0%) and twenty-four and ninety-nine hundredths percent (24.99%) of its solid waste at the Corporation’s material recycling facility (“MRF”) in Johnston.
(2) Thirty-one dollars ($31.00) per ton from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2015, for any municipality that recycles between twenty-five percent (25%) and twenty-nine and ninety-nine hundredths percent (29.99%) of its solid waste at the Corporation’s (“MRF”) in Johnston.
(3) Thirty dollars ($30.00) per ton from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2015, for any municipality that recycles between thirty percent (30%) and thirty-four and ninety-nine hundredths percent (34.99%) of its solid waste at the Corporation’s (“MRF”) in Johnston.
(4) Twenty-nine dollars ($29.00) per ton from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2015, for any municipality that recycles thirty-five percent (35%) or more of its solid waste at the Corporation’s (“MRF”) in Johnston.
(5) The Corporation shall issue a rebate not later than September 1 of each year to those municipalities qualifying for a year-end tipping fee adjustment according to the municipality’s actual recorded tonnage delivered to the MRF in Johnston, and in accordance with the provisions of the municipality’s current-year signed solid waste and recycling services agreement with the corporation.
(6) The corporation shall provide a rate plan with its proposed budget to be submitted to the state on or before October 1, 2014, in accordance with § 23-19-37.
History of Section.P.L. 2010, ch. 23, art. 10, § 4; P.L. 2011, ch. 151, art. 3, § 2; P.L. 2014, ch. 145, art. 6, § 1.

Structure Rhode Island General Laws

Rhode Island General Laws

Title 23 - Health and Safety

Chapter 23-19 - Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation

Section 23-19-1. - Short title.

Section 23-19-1.1. - Mission statement.

Section 23-19-2. - Legislative findings.

Section 23-19-3. - Declaration of policy.

Section 23-19-4. - Legislative purposes of Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation.

Section 23-19-5. - Definitions.

Section 23-19-6. - Creation, membership, and terms of the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation.

Section 23-19-7. - Commissioners — Oath of office — Conflict of interest.

Section 23-19-8. - Employment of executive director and support services — Books and records.

Section 23-19-9. - Purposes of the corporation.

Section 23-19-10. - General powers and duties.

Section 23-19-10.1. - Construction of gas pipelines.

Section 23-19-10.2. - Solid waste disposal facilities — Sites — Eminent domain.

Section 23-19-10.3. - Highway construction — Eminent domain.

Section 23-19-11. - Planning requirements.

Section 23-19-11.1. - Initial resource recovery system development plan.

Section 23-19-11.2. - Improvements of the central landfill.

Section 23-19-11.3. - Central landfill — Water quality and public health.

Section 23-19-11.4. - Initial resource recovery facilities.

Section 23-19-12. - Powers of the department of health and the department of environmental management.

Section 23-19-13. - Municipal participation in state program.

Section 23-19-13.1. - Disposal of solid waste originating outside the state prohibited — Rules and regulations.

Section 23-19-13.2. - Disposal of infectious and pathological waste.

Section 23-19-13.3. - Prohibiting business due to conviction of certain acts.

Section 23-19-13.4. - Host community assessment committee — Definition — Funding — Powers and duties.

Section 23-19-13.5. - Interim rates.

Section 23-19-13.6. - Cover materials not permitted.

Section 23-19-14. - Bonds and notes of the corporation.

Section 23-19-15. - Short term notes.

Section 23-19-16. - Security for bonds or notes.

Section 23-19-17. - Capital reserve funds and appropriations.

Section 23-19-18. - Trust funds.

Section 23-19-19. - Remedies of bondholders and noteholders.

Section 23-19-20. - Pledge of the state.

Section 23-19-21. - Credit of state not pledged.

Section 23-19-22. - Notes and bonds as legal investments.

Section 23-19-23. - Repealed.

Section 23-19-24. - Reporting requirements.

Section 23-19-24.1. - Solid waste diversion — Economic impact and strategies reporting.

Section 23-19-25. - Authorization to accept appropriated moneys.

Section 23-19-26. - Tax exemption.

Section 23-19-27. - Severability.

Section 23-19-28. - Violations — Sanctions — Injunctive relief.

Section 23-19-28.1. - Procedures to enforcement.

Section 23-19-29. - Liberal construction.

Section 23-19-30. - State central landfill — Annual liquid waste or sludge analysis.

Section 23-19-31. - Recycling facility at central landfill.

Section 23-19-32. - Grants-in-aid.

Section 23-19-33. - Bonus incentive program.

Section 23-19-34. - Central landfill buffer zone.

Section 23-19-34.1. - Removal of houses — Buffer zone.

Section 23-19-35. - Central landfill — Adjoining residential property.

Section 23-19-35.1. - Use of acquired property.

Section 23-19-36. - Central landfill — Funds for acquisition.

Section 23-19-37. - Financial accountability.

Section 23-19-38. - Report of the auditor general.

Section 23-19-39. - Tipping fees — Municipal rate for city or town collected condominium solid waste.

Section 23-19-40. - Utilization of buffer zone — Restrictions.

Section 23-19-41. - Construction of references.

Section 23-19-42. - Tipping fees — Municipal rate for city or town collected regional school district solid waste.