455B.386  Notification of spills--penalty.

A person manufacturing, storing, handling, transporting, or disposing of a hazardous substance shall notify the department and the local police department or the office of the sheriff of the affected county of the occurrence of a hazardous condition as soon as possible but not later than six hours after the onset of the hazardous condition or discovery of the hazardous condition. A sheriff or police chief who has been notified of a hazardous condition shall immediately notify the department. The department, upon receiving notice of a hazardous condition, shall immediately notify the operator of any public water supply system or private water supply system which may be affected by the hazardous condition. If requested, a person shall submit within thirty days of the department's request a written report of particulars of the incident. A person violating this section is subject to a civil penalty of not more than one thousand dollars.

Section History: Early form

  [C79, 81, § 455B.115]

Section History: Recent form

  C83, § 455B.386

  84 Acts, ch 1108, § 2; 90 Acts, ch 1032, § 1

Internal References

  Referred to in § 29C.8A, 321.266, 331.653, 455J.7

Footnotes

  See also § 321.266


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