LCO No. 5528 1 of 2
General Assembly Raised Bill No. 1011
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 5528
Referred to Committee on PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Introduced by:
(PD)
AN ACT CONCERNING MU NICIPAL NOTICE TO SOLID WASTE
COLLECTORS AND CONTI NUANCE OF SERVICE BY SUCH SOLID
WASTE COLLECTORS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2019) (a) In any municipality 1
where a solid waste collector has arrangements, contractual or 2
otherwise, with residents of such municipality for the provision of 3
trash collection and disposal services, the chief executive officer of 4
such municipality shall give notice of not less than sixty days to such 5
solid waste collector in the event such municipality will (1) begin 6
directly providing such trash collection and disposal services to the 7
residents of such municipality, or (2) contract with another solid waste 8
collector for the provision of such services to such residents. 9
(b) For not less than one year after the date on which such notice is 10
given, (1) the municipality shall be prohibited from providing such 11
trash collection and disposal services, (2) any solid waste collector with 12
which such municipality subsequently contracts for the provision of 13
such services shall be prohibited from providing such services, and (3) 14 Raised Bill No. 1011
LCO No. 5528 2 of 2
a solid waste collector with arrangements, contractual or otherwise, 15
with residents of such municipality for the provision of such services 16
as of the date on which such notice is given may continue to provide 17
such services. 18
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2019 New section
Statement of Purpose:
To require (1) a municipality to give notice of at least sixty days to any
solid waste collector operating in such municipality prior to any action
taken by such municipality to provide its own trash collection and
disposal services, including contracting with another solid waste
collector to provide such service, and (2) that, for one year after any
such action, any solid waste collector with existing arrangements for
the provision of such services be permitted to continue to provide such
service.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline,
except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is
not underlined.]