98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
HB5666

 

Introduced , by Rep. Anthony DeLuca

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
New Act
65 ILCS 5/11-19-1  from Ch. 24, par. 11-19-1
415 ILCS 15/13 new

    Creates the Illinois Solid Waste Hauling and Recycling Program Act. Provides that any person who engages in the business of collecting or hauling garbage, municipal waste, recyclable material, landscape waste, brush, or other refuse operating in specified counties or municipalities shall offer the collection of recyclable materials from any commercial business, commercial property, or institutional facility. Provides that recyclable materials collected by a hauler within a county shall not be deposited into a landfill or incinerator unless all reasonable efforts have been made by the hauler to sell those recyclable materials to a processor or end user. Provides that counties and municipalities may require haulers operating within their boundaries to obtain license decals. Requires recycling centers or recycling center operators to report to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. Provides that the new requirements apply only to contracts for collecting or hauling of garbage, municipal waste, recyclable material, landscape waste, brush, or other refuse entered into, renewed, or extended on or after the effective date of the Act. Provides that a home rule unit may not regulate haulers in a manner less restrictive than the regulation of haulers under the Act. Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that the contract provisions of the Act are subject to the provisions of the Illinois Solid Waste Hauling and Recycling Program Act, and apply only to contracts or franchises regulated by the Illinois Solid Waste Hauling and Recycling Program Act awarded prior to the effective date, provided that the contract is not modified to cover additional categories of refuse, waste, or material. Amends the Solid Waste Planning and Recycling Act. Provides that the Act is subject to the provisions of the Illinois Solid Waste Hauling and Recycling Program Act. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
5Illinois Solid Waste Hauling and Recycling Program Act.
 
6    Section 5. Definitions. As used in this Act, unless the
7context clearly indicates otherwise:
8    "Agency" means the Illinois Environmental Protection
9Agency.
10    "Applicant" means any Person applying for a solid waste
11hauling license under this Act.
12    "County" means a county in Illinois having a population of
133,000,000 or more, and any county that is contiguous to that
14county.
15    "General construction or demolition debris" has the
16meaning ascribed to that term in Section 3.160 of the
17Environmental Protection Act.
18    "Hauler" means any person who engages in the business of
19collecting or hauling garbage, municipal waste, recyclable
20material, landscape waste, brush, or other refuse on a
21continuous and regular basis, and makes multiple scheduled
22collections per month within a county.
23    "Landscape waste" means all accumulations of grass or

 

 

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1shrubbery cuttings, leaves, tree limbs, and other materials
2accumulated as the result of the care of lawns, shrubbery,
3vines, and trees.
4    "Municipal waste" means garbage, general household
5institutional and commercial waste, industrial lunchroom or
6office waste, and landscape waste. "Municipal waste" also
7includes "garbage", "refuse", and "ashes", as those terms are
8defined in Section 11-19-2 of the Municipal Code.
9    "Municipality" means a municipality, as defined in Section
101 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution, that is located
11either partially or wholly within the boundaries of a county as
12defined in this Section.
13    "Person" means any business, public or private
14corporation, partnership, association, government agency,
15municipality, unit of local government, or other legal entity.
16    "Recycling" means a method, technique, or process designed
17to remove any contaminant from waste so as to render that waste
18reusable, or any process by which materials that would
19otherwise be disposed of or discarded are collected, separated,
20or processed and returned to the economic mainstream in the
21form of raw materials or products.
22    "Recycling center" means a site or a facility that accepts
23only segregated, nonhazardous, nonspecial, homogenous,
24nonputrescible materials, such as dry paper, glass, cans or
25plastics for subsequent use in the secondary materials market.
26    "Recyclable material" means material that is separated

 

 

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1from municipal waste for the purpose of recycling, including,
2but not limited to, ferrous metal cans, aluminum containers,
3glass, plastics including HDPE or PET containers and plastics
4#3 through #7, newsprint, corrugated paper, junk mail,
5magazines, office paper, and boxboard.
 
6    Section 10. Collection of recyclable materials.
7    (a) Each hauler operating in a county or municipality shall
8offer, either as part of basic service, or alternatively as an
9additional service, the collection of recyclable materials
10from any commercial business, commercial property, or
11institutional facility within that county or municipality.
12Haulers shall provide information on how and what materials to
13recycle at least once every other year to customers with
14recycling service. Haulers shall provide a written offer to
15provide recycling services to commercial businesses, owners or
16operators of commercial property, and institutional facilities
17that are not recycling. Those offers shall be made at least
18once during the term of the contract or at least once every 2
19years, whichever is shorter. The hauler's written offer shall
20include a request that the commercial business, owner or
21operator of the commercial business, or institutional facility
22respond to the hauler's request to provide recycling services
23in writing.
24    (b) Recyclable materials collected by a hauler within a
25county shall not be deposited into a landfill or incinerator

 

 

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1unless all reasonable efforts have been made by the hauler to
2sell those recyclable materials to a processor or end user.
3    (c) Ownership of recyclable materials set out for
4collection shall remain with the commercial business,
5commercial property owner, or institutional facility that set
6out the material for collection until the material is removed
7by the hauler.
 
8    Section 15. Compliance.
9    Nothing in this Act shall exempt a hauler from obtaining a
10license or permit required by other applicable laws or
11regulations. The hauler shall at all times operate in
12compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.
13    In the event of a conflict between this Act and any other
14law, including, but not limited to, the Solid Waste Planning
15and Recycling Act, the Counties Code, and the Illinois
16Municipal Code, this Act shall control.
 
17    Section 20. Recyclable materials reporting. Beginning
18January 15, 2015, and each January 15 and July 15 thereafter, a
19recycling center, a recycling center operator, or a facility
20that accepts exclusively general construction or demolition
21debris pursuant to Section 22.38 of the Act must provide a
22report to the Agency, on forms provided by the Agency, that
23includes: (i) the site name, the owner of the recycling center
24or general construction or demolition debris facility, and the

 

 

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1semi-annual period for which the summary applies; and (ii) the
2total quantity of recyclable materials or general construction
3or demolition debris received during the preceding semi-annual
4period, in tons or cubic yards.
 
5    Section 25. Applicability.
6    (a) Nothing in this Act shall apply to a contract or
7franchise, entered into prior to the effective date of this
8Act, for collecting or hauling garbage, municipal waste,
9recyclable material, landscape waste, brush, general
10construction or demolition debris, or other refuse, waste, or
11material from non-residential locations, nor to any such
12contracts that have been amended, extended, or renewed either
13before or after the effective date of this Act.
14    (b) The provisions of this Act apply only in a county
15having a population of 3,000,000 or more, and in any county
16that is contiguous to that county. However, nothing in this Act
17shall apply to a municipality having a population of 2,000,000
18or more.
19    (c) On or after the effective date of this Act, no
20municipality, other than as described in subsection (d) of this
21Section, shall have the authority to award a contract or
22franchise for collecting or hauling garbage, municipal waste,
23recyclable material, landscape waste, brush, or general
24construction or demolition debris or other refuse, waste, or
25material from non-residential locations.

 

 

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1    (d) The provisions of subsection (c) of this Section shall
2not apply to a contract or franchise that, prior to the
3effective date of this Act, was awarded by a municipality
4pursuant to the provisions of Section 11-19-1 of the Municipal
5Code, nor to any such contracts that have been extended or
6renewed either before or after the effective date of this Act,
7provided that the contract is not modified to cover additional
8categories of refuse, waste, or material.
 
9    Section 30. Home Rule. A home rule unit may not regulate
10haulers in a manner less restrictive than the regulation of
11haulers by the State under this Act. This Act is a limitation
12under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the
13Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home rule
14units of powers and functions exercised by the State.
 
15    Section 35. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
16changing Section 11-19-1 as follows:
 
17    (65 ILCS 5/11-19-1)  (from Ch. 24, par. 11-19-1)
18    Sec. 11-19-1. Contracts.
19    (a) Any city, village or incorporated town may make
20contracts with any other city, village, or incorporated town or
21with any person, corporation, or county, or any agency created
22by intergovernmental agreement, for more than one year and not
23exceeding 30 years relating to the collection and final

 

 

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1disposition, or relating solely to either the collection or
2final disposition of garbage, refuse and ashes. A municipality
3may contract with private industry to operate a designated
4facility for the disposal, treatment or recycling of solid
5waste, and may enter into contracts with private firms or local
6governments for the delivery of waste to such facility. In
7regard to a contract involving a garbage, refuse, or garbage
8and refuse incineration facility, the 30 year contract
9limitation imposed by this Section shall be computed so that
10the 30 years shall not begin to run until the date on which the
11facility actually begins accepting garbage or refuse. The
12payments required in regard to any contract entered into under
13this Division 19 shall not be regarded as indebtedness of the
14city, village, or incorporated town, as the case may be, for
15the purpose of any debt limitation imposed by any law.
16    (b) If a municipality with a population of less than
171,000,000 has never awarded a franchise to a private entity for
18the collection of waste from non-residential locations, then
19that municipality may not award such a franchise without
20issuing a request for proposal. The municipality may not issue
21a request for proposal without first: (i) holding at least one
22public hearing seeking comment on the advisability of issuing a
23request for proposal and awarding a franchise; (ii) providing
24at least 30 days' written notice of the hearing, delivered by
25first class mail to all private entities that provide
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1municipality that the municipality is able to identify through
2its records; and (iii) providing at least 30 days' public
3notice of the hearing.
4    After issuing a request for proposal, the municipality may
5not award a franchise without first: (i) allowing at least 30
6days for proposals to be submitted to the municipality; (ii)
7holding at least one public hearing after the receipt of
8proposals on whether to award a franchise to a proposed
9franchisee; and (iii) providing at least 30 days' public notice
10of the hearing. At the public hearing, the municipality must
11disclose and discuss the proposed franchise fee or calculation
12formula of such franchise fee that it will receive under the
13proposed franchise.
14    (b-5) If no request for proposal is issued within 120 days
15after the initial public hearing required in subsection (b),
16then the municipality must hold another hearing as outlined in
17subsection (b).
18    (b-10) If a municipality has not awarded a franchise within
19210 days after the date that a request for proposal is issued
20pursuant to subsection (b), then the municipality must adhere
21to all of the requirements set forth in subsections (b) and
22(b-5).
23    (b-15) The franchise fee and any other fees, taxes, or
24charges imposed by the municipality in connection with a
25franchise for the collection of waste from non-residential
26locations must be used exclusively for costs associated with

 

 

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1administering the franchise program.
2    (c) If a municipality with a population of less than
31,000,000 has never awarded a franchise to a private entity for
4the collection of waste from non-residential locations, then a
5private entity may not begin providing waste collection
6services to non-residential locations under a franchise
7agreement with that municipality at any time before the date
8that is 15 months after the date the ordinance or resolution
9approving the award of the franchise is adopted.
10    (d) For purposes of this Section, "waste" means garbage,
11refuse, or ashes as defined in Section 11-19-2.
12    (e) A home rule unit may not award a franchise to a private
13entity for the collection of waste in a manner contrary to the
14provisions of this Section. This Section is a limitation under
15subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois
16Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home rule units of
17powers and functions exercised by the State.
18    (f) This Section is subject to the provisions of the
19Illinois Solid Waste Hauling and Recycling Program Act, and
20applies only to: (1) contracts or franchises awarded prior to
21the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 98th General
22Assembly, and (2) such contracts that have been amended,
23extended, or renewed either before or after the effective date
24of this amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly, provided
25that the contract is not modified to cover additional
26categories of refuse, waste, or material.

 

 

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1(Source: P.A. 95-856, eff. 10-1-08; 96-1215, eff. 7-22-10.)
 
2    Section 40. The Solid Waste Planning and Recycling Act is
3amended by adding Section 13 as follows:
 
4    (415 ILCS 15/13 new)
5    Sec. 13. Illinois Solid Waste Hauling and Recycling Program
6Act. This Act is subject to the provisions of the Illinois
7Solid Waste Hauling and Recycling Program Act.
 
8    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
9becoming law.