TITLE 42

IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE — WATER RIGHTS AND RECLAMATION

CHAPTER 39

INJECTION WELLS

42-3917.  Civil penalties — Injection of hazardous and radioactive wastes. Any person who constructs, operates, maintains, converts, plugs, abandons, or conducts any other activity in a manner that results or may result in the unauthorized injection of a hazardous waste or of a radioactive waste through an injection well shall be in violation of section 42-3902A, Idaho Code, and subject to a civil penalty not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) for each day in which such action occurs. The director shall have the authority to file an action in the appropriate district court to impose, assess and recover said civil penalties.

History:

[42-3917, added 1984, ch. 155, sec. 18, p. 380.]