PART XII. TRANSPORTATION OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

 

Note

 

  Part heading amended by L 1996, c 134, §1; am L 2000, c 86,§1.

 

Cross References

 

  Environmental response law, see chapter 128D.

  Hazardous waste management, see chapter 342J.

 

§286-221  Definitions.  As used in thispart, unless the context otherwise requires:

"Hazardous material" means asubstance or material which has been determined by the United States Secretaryof Transportation to be capable of posing an unreasonable risk to health, safety,and property when transported in commerce, and which has been so designated. The term includes hazardous substances, hazardous wastes, infectioussubstances, medical wastes, marine pollutants, elevated temperature materials,and materials that meet the defining criteria for hazard classes and divisionsin Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 173.

"Hazardous materials incident" meansan occurrence or likely occurrence or potential of a spill, release, leakage,dumping, or loss of control of a hazardous material during the course oftransportation in commerce including loading, unloading, or temporary storage.

"Hazardous substance" means anymaterial, including its mixtures and solutions, defined under Title 49, Code ofFederal Regulations, Part 171.

"Hazardous waste" means any materialdesignated in Title 40, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 261 and which aresubject to the hazardous waste manifest requirements of Title 40, Code ofFederal Regulations, Part 262.

"Infectious substance" means a viablemicroorganism, or its toxin, which causes or may cause disease in humans andanimals, or which is further described as an infectious substance in Title 49,Code of Federal Regulations, Part 173.

"Medical waste" means fortransportation purposes, shipments of medical waste material generated in thediagnosis, treatment, or immunization of human beings and animals, in researchpertaining thereto, in the production or testing of biologicals, or which arefurther described as regulated medical waste in Title 49, Code of FederalRegulations, Part 173. [L 1989, c 185, pt of §2; am L 1996, c 134, §2; am L2000, c 86, §2]