department of environmental quality; programs

Added language allowing private fire protection service providers to be authorized to issue open burning permits when delegated by a county, city, or fire district.

Deleted a provision that explicitly prohibited counties with populations exceeding 1.2 million from banning wood-burning chimineas and outdoor fire pits on no-burn days.

Corrected grammatical errors and redundant phrasing throughout the text, such as changing 'Notwithstanding section 49-107, if the department assumes jurisdiction over burning' to 'open burning' and removing the phrase 'is intended to does not permit any practice which that is a violation'.

Standardized capitalization and formatting for section headers and statutory references, including changing 'laws' to 'Laws' and 'code of federal regulation' to 'Code of Federal Regulations'.

Cities and towns providing waste or recycling services outside their boundaries must now keep separate records and make in-lieu tax contributions to state, county, and other taxing districts.

New section 9-511.03 was added to mandate that municipalities cannot use taxes to subsidize waste services provided outside their municipal boundaries.

Section 49-881 was updated to include in-lieu contributions from municipalities as a source of revenue for the solid waste fee fund.

Section 49-837, which established a separate recycling fund, was repealed.

All unexpended money from the repealed recycling fund was transferred to the solid waste fee fund established in section 49-881.

Section 49-832 was expanded to explicitly require the Department of Environmental Quality to oversee the implementation of the state recycling program.