§ 23-19-40. Utilization of buffer zone — Restrictions.
(a) Legislative Purpose.
(1) A buffer zone is an area between two (2) different land uses. The purpose of this section is to specifically prohibit using certain areas of the central landfill buffer zone for the expansion of any waste operations.
(2) The statutes which created the buffer zone contain no specific prohibitions on its use. This section is intended to add specific restrictions to the portion delineated in subsection (b)(1). It is not intended as authorization for waste operations in other areas of the buffer zone.
(b) Buffer Zone.
(1) The Rhode Island resource recovery corporation and/or any successor, transferee, or assignee of the corporation and/or any other governmental entity or agency which conducts a solid waste management disposal business, is prohibited from using any real property situated in that triangular shaped area bounded by Central Avenue on the south and Reservoir Avenue on the east, whether already owned or hereafter acquired, for any extension of the entire operational portion of the central landfill, as defined in § 23-19-34, for any other type of waste operation, or for the opening or operation of any recycling or incineration operations.
(2) Any undeveloped real property in the area delineated in subsection (b)(1), that is presently owned or later acquired by the solid waste management corporation or by any successor, transferee or assignee of the corporation, or by any other governmental entity or agency which conducts a solid waste management or disposal business, shall be converted to and after this maintained as a vegetated area in its natural or in an altered vegetative state; provided, however, that a vegetated area may include public recreational facilities.
History of Section.P.L. 1993, ch. 221, § 1; P.L. 2001, ch. 86, § 80; P.L. 2001, ch. 316, § 1.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
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 23-19-7. - 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 23-19-13. - Municipal participation in state program.
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 23-19-13.5. - 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 23-19-24. - 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 23-19-40. - Utilization of buffer zone — Restrictions.