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116.081 PROHIBITIONS; AIR CONTAMINANT AND WASTE FACILITIES AND
SYSTEMS.
    Subdivision 1. Permit required. It shall be unlawful for any person to construct, install
or operate an emission facility, air contaminant treatment facility, treatment facility, potential
air contaminant storage facility, storage facility, or system or facility related to the collection,
transportation, storage, processing, or disposal of waste, or any part thereof unless otherwise
exempted by any agency rule now in force or hereinafter adopted, until plans therefor shall have
been submitted to the agency, and a written permit therefor shall have been granted by the agency.
The requirements of this section shall not be applied to motor vehicles.
    Subd. 2. Permits previously issued. Any permit authorized by section 116.07, subdivision
4a
issued prior to June 8, 1971, and any rule which required said prior permit, shall be valid and
remain enforceable subject, however, to the right of the agency to modify or revoke said permit or
amend said rule in the same manner as other permits and rules.
    Subd. 3. Permission for alteration. It shall be unlawful for any person to make any change
in, addition to or extension of any existing system or facility specified in subdivision 1, or part
thereof, that would materially alter the method or the effect of treating or disposing of any air
contaminant or solid waste, or to operate said system or facility, or part thereof, so changed, added
to, or extended until plans therefor shall have been submitted to the agency, and a written permit
therefor shall have been granted by the agency.
History: 1971 c 904 s 2; 1974 c 483 s 8; 1980 c 564 art 11 s 11; 1985 c 248 s 70

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