§ 21-1230.7. Unlawful concealment of hazardous waste.  


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  • Any person commits the offense of unlawful concealment of hazardous waste who knowingly and willfully subjects any other person, including but not limited to peace officers, emergency responders or clean-up crews, to the potential for immediate or long-term risk to their health or safety by exposure to chemical wastes, by knowingly and willfully:

    1.  Concealing or causing other persons to conceal the unlawful abandonment or disposal of hazardous waste;

    2.  Concealing or causing other persons to conceal that hazardous waste is being transported; or

    3.  Misrepresenting or causing other persons to misrepresent the type of hazardous waste being transported.

Added by Laws 1992, c. 363, § 7, emerg. eff. June 4, 1992.  Amended by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 344, eff. July 1, 1993.