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Ch. 102
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LAWS OF MARYLAND
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CHAPTER 102
(Senate Bill 191)
AN ACT concerning
Landfills - Financial Security Requirements
FOR the purpose of increasing the dollar amount of a surety bond,
cash deposit, or securities required of certain permit
applicants to install a landfill refuse disposal system.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Health - Environmental
Section 9-213(c)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1982 Volume)
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SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
Article - Health - Environmental
9-213.
(c) Before a permit for a landfill refuse disposal system
is issued to any nonmunicipal corporation or to any other private
organization or person, the applicant for the permit shall file
with the Department a bond on a form prescribed and furnished by
the Department. The bond shall be payable to the governing body
of the political subdivision in which the landfill is to be
located, and the obligation of the bond shall be conditioned upon
the closing and covering of the landfill in a manner that
prevents erosion, health and safety hazards, nuisances, and
pollution. The bond shall be in the amount of [$1,000] $5,000
for each acre of land for which the permit is to be applied, but
in no event less than [$25,000] $125,000. Liability under the
bond shall be for the duration of the actual operation of the
landfill and for a period of 5 years after that unless released
earlier by the Department upon receipt of assurance that the
landfill has been closed and covered in the required manner. The
bond shall be executed by the applicant and by a corporate surety
licensed to do business in this State. In lieu of having a bond
executed by a corporate surety, the applicant may elect to
deposit, with the local governing body, cash or negotiable bonds
of the federal government or of this State or any other
securities acceptable to the Department. The amount of the cash
deposit or the market value of any securities shall be at least
equal to the required sum of the bond. The local governing body
shall receive and hold any such cash or securities in the name of
the appropriate subdivision, in trust, for the purposes for which
the deposit is posted. The obligation of the applicant and of any
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