HB1407eng 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HB1407 Engrossed LRB095 08399 CMK 28572 b

AN ACT concerning used tires.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Small Retailer Tire Disposal Act.

Section 5. Definitions. For purposes of this Act:

"Agency" means the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.

"Small retailer" means a person who sells no more than 500 tires, at retail, each year.

Section 10. Collection. The Agency shall arrange for used tires to be collected from small retailers. A used tire collection site must be available in each county of the State on at least a quarterly basis. Any small retailer in the county of the collection site may deposit at the collection site, free of charge, any used tires collected by that small retailer during the previous 3 months. The Agency shall transport the collected used tires from the collection site and discard the used tires as provided in Title XIV of the Environmental Protection Act. Collection sites established under this Section shall be available only to small retailers.

Section 15. Notice. The Agency shall publish notice of the location, date, and time of a collection in the newspaper of greatest circulation in the county of the collection site. Notice under this Section shall be published at least 2 consecutive weekends before the date of the collection.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, 2007.