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Tex. Health & Safety Code § 361.002

POLICY; FINDINGS

Known as the Solid Waste Disposal Act

The act spans §§ 361–361 (309 sections).

Applied in 12 court decisions — leading case Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission v. Sierra Club (2002)

Most recently applied in City of Laredo, Texas v. Laredo Merchants Association (June 2018)

Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff

How often courts cite this section

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citing decisions per year

Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

(a) It is this state's policy and the purpose of this chapter to safeguard the health, welfare, and physical property of the people and to protect the environment by controlling the management of solid waste, including accounting for hazardous waste that is generated.

(b) The storage, processing, and disposal of hazardous waste at municipal solid waste facilities pose a risk to public health and the environment, and in order to protect the environment and to provide measures for adequate protection of public health, it is in the public interest to require hazardous waste to be stored, processed, and disposed of only at permitted hazardous industrial solid waste facilities.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.