2003 Senate Bill 498 ↩

Senate Roll Call 461: Passed

To make it a crime to knowingly dispose beverage containers, whole tires, or yard waste in Michigan landfills, and to make it a crime to deposit oil, lead acid batteries, low-level radioactive waste, hazardous materials, sewage, liquid waste, PCBs or asbestos in a landfill, whether knowingly or not. It is already a crime to knowingly dispose medical waste in a landfill. The bill is part of a legislative package comprised of Senate Bills 57, 98, 497, 498, 499, 502, 505, 506, 557, 715, and Senate Resolutions 4 and 12.