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SECTION 3. Chapter 20, article 3, section 20 -40 of the Hawai`i County Code 1983 (2005 Edition, as amended), is amended to read as follows: "Section 20 -40. Explosives, radioactive wastes and other prohibited materials. (a) No person shall dump, place, or remove to any County disposal facility, including transfer stations, any prohibited materials as defined in this article or by the State department of health rules, regulations and standards, including any radioactive or chemical waste, any pesticides, explosives, blasting materials, fuses, live ammunition, or other substances that may explode upon contact with heat or fire. (b) Prohibited wastes which have been rendered nonhazardous by chemical neutralization or stabilization in accordance with applicable rules, regulations and standards of the State department of health may be delivered directly to a landfill for disposal. (c) Any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary notwithstanding, no person shall dump, place, or remove to any County disposal facility, including transfer stations, in any amount or any form, commercial cooking oil waste or commercial FOG waste, as defined in section 20 -31. The foregoing prohibition shall apply only to the extent that there are recyclers who are willing and able to accept such materials for recycling, by way of either pick -up at the place of generation, or drop -off within driving distance from the place of generation which is less than to the nearest County landfill." SECTION 4. Material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New material is underscored. In printing this ordinance, the brackets, bracketed and stricken material, and underscoring need not be included. SECTION 5. If any provision of this ordinance, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the ordinance which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end, the provisions of this ordinance are declared to be severable. SECTION 6. This ordinance shall take effect upon its approval. INTRODUCED BY: Kona , Hawai`i Date of Introduction: September 19, 2012 Date of 1st Reading: November 9, 2012 Date of 2nd Reading: November 21, 2012 Effective Date: December 14, 2012 REFERENCE Comm. 800.9 2 gER, OUNTY OF HAWAI`I