95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB1407


 
Introduced 2/21/2007, by Rep. Jim Sacia
 
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    Creates the Small Retailer Tire Disposal Act. Provides that the Environmental Protection Agency shall arrange for used tires to be collected from small retailers in the State. Provides that a collection site must be available in each county of the State on at least a quarterly basis. Provides that the Agency shall publish notice of the location, date, and time of a collection in the newspaper of greatest  circulation in the county of the collection site for at least 2 consecutive weekends before the date of the collection.
















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    AN ACT concerning used tires.

 
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    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
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represented in the General Assembly:


 
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    Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Small 
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Retailer Tire Disposal Act.
 
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    Section 5. Definitions.  For purposes of this Act:
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    "Agency" means the Illinois Environmental Protection 
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Agency.
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    "Small retailer" means a person who sells no more than 500 
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tires, at retail, each year.
 
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    Section 10. Collection. The Agency shall arrange for used 
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tires to be collected from small retailers. A used tire 
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collection site must be available in each county of the State 
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on at least a quarterly basis.  Any small retailer in the county 
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of the collection site may deposit at the collection site, free 
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of charge, any used tires collected by that small retailer 
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during the previous 3 months. The Agency shall transport the 
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collected used tires from the collection site and discard the 
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used tires as provided in Title XIV of the Environmental 
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Protection Act. Collection sites established under this 
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Section shall be available only to small retailers.
 
 


 






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    Section 15. Notice. The Agency shall publish notice of the 
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location, date, and time of a collection in the newspaper of 
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greatest  circulation in the county of the collection site. 
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Notice under this Section shall be published at least 2 
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consecutive weekends before the date of the collection.
 

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    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, 
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2007.