Current through Pa Acts 2024-53, 2024-56 through 2024-92
Section 1975 - Municipal Waste Processing and Disposal in County Facilities.(a) The commissioners of any county shall have the power to operate or provide for the operation of municipal waste processing and disposal facilities, including municipal waste landfills, resource recovery facilities and recycling facilities, and to enter into agreements or contracts with any person, corporation or political subdivision for the disposal of municipal waste in the facilities constructed and maintained by the county, and to charge and receive fees for such service.(b) A county may acquire by gift, lease, purchase by current revenues, borrowing or incurring indebtedness or eminent domain real property within the county for the purpose of constructing any facilities under subsection (a) or other buildings necessary to operate the facilities. In every case where private property is taken by eminent domain, the county shall acquire the entire title, either in fee or otherwise, held by the owner or owners of the property or of any interest therein.(c) As used in this section, the terms "municipal waste landfill," "recycling facility" and "resource recovery facility" shall have the same meanings as given to those terms in the act of July 28, 1988 ( P.L. 556, No.101), known as the "Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling and Waste Reduction Act."Amended by P.L. TBD 2018 No. 154, § 57, eff. 12/24/2018.1955, Aug. 9, P.L. 323, § 1975.