SECTION 18
Please find attached a section of the Florida Statutes, latest edition, concerning the
handling and disposal of waste or used oil.
Please read and acknowledge this reading on the CONTRACTOR SUBMITTAL form.
Revised as of 01/01/2011
403.751 Prohibited Actions; used oil. (1) (a)
No person may collect, transport, store, recycle, use, or dispose of used
oil in any manner in which endangers the public health or welfare.
(b)
No person may discharge used oil into sewers, drainage systems, septic
tanks, surface or ground waters, watercourses, or marine waters.
[c]
No person may mix or commingle used oil with solid waste that is to be
disposed of in landfills or directly dispose of used oil in landfills on Florida
unless approved by the Department.
(d)
Any person who unknowingly disposes into a landfill any used oil which
has not been properly segregated or separated from other solid wastes by
the generator is not guilty of violation under this act.
(e)
No person may mix or commingle used oil with hazardous substances that
make it unsuitable for recycling or beneficial use.
(2)
Used oil shall not be used for road oiling, dust control, weed abatement,
or other similar uses that have the potential to release used oil into the
environment.
History. -s. 58, ch.84-338; s.26, ch.88-130.