§ 44-93-160 — Fees on commercial treatment of infectious waste; reports; penalties.

(A) There is a fee on the treatment of infectious waste in this State equal to thirty dollars a ton for the first one thousand five hundred tons in a month and eight dollars a ton in excess of one thousand five hundred tons a month on the pretreatment weight of infectious waste to be imposed upon facilities required to be permitted pursuant to this chapter. (B) The owner or operator of a facility required to be permitted pursuant to this chapter treating infectious waste shall submit, not later than the tenth day of each month, to the Department of Health and Environmental Control: (1) a report detailing the total weight of infectious waste received for treatment during the preceding month and its point of origin; (2) a check made payable to the department for the fee due for the preceding month; (3) in case of failure to file a return on or before the date prescribed by law or failure to pay a fee on or before the date prescribed by law, there must be added a penalty of twenty-five percent of the amount of fee due. The department may revoke a permit to operate for failure to pay any fees, penalties, or interest required by law. Upon payment the department may reinstate the permit to an operator of a permitted treatment facility treating infectious waste in this State. The penalty provided by this item may be reduced or waived by the department for reasonable cause. (C) A person treating infectious waste who fails to remit the fee or penalty as provided by law must be charged interest at the rate of one percent a month. Interest must be calculated on the full amount of the fee or portion of it, exclusive of penalties, from the time the fee or penalty was due and paid in its entirety.

Legislative History

HISTORY: 1989 Act No. 134, SECTION 1; 1990 Act No. 612, Part II, SECTION 6A; 1994 Act No. 497, Part II, SECTION 30B; 1997 Act No. 155, Part II, SECTION 78A.