- (a) An individual resident of the Benton County Regional Solid Waste Management District shall not be charged a fee for discarding four (4) or fewer automobile tires not on rims at a waste tire collection center per month or more often at the discretion of the district.
(b)
- (1) A retail seller (dealer) of tires shall not be charged a fee for discarding at a waste tire collection center a number of automobile and truck tires equal to the number of tires for which the retail seller has collected and paid the waste tire fee levied by Arkansas Code § 8-9-404 et seq.
- (2) A retail seller shall be awarded one (1) tire disposal credit for each waste tire fee paid to the Department of Finance and Administration.
- (3) Retail sellers are required to provide documentation to the district no later than the twentieth of each month of the waste tire fee payment submitted to the department for the previous calendar month’s tire sales.
(4) The district shall maintain a record of the number of:
- (A) Tires for which the waste tire fee was submitted;
- (B) Waste tires disposed; and
- (C) Remaining tire credits available to the retail seller (dealer).
(c)
- (1) Any state or other governmental entity within this state that is required to purchase tires on state contract may dispose of an equal number of waste automobile and truck tires equal to the number of tires for which they have paid the waste tire fee levied by Arkansas Code § 8-9-404 et seq., provided that they can show proof that said fee was paid to a retail seller of tires registered with the department to collect and pay the waste tire fee levied.
- (2) Such state or other governmental entity may dispose of said waste tires in a district other than the district in which the waste tires were purchased at retail without being charged any additional fee.
(d)
- (1) A waste tire collection center shall collect an equitable fee to be established by the district on all nonfee-paid automobile and truck tires.
- (2) The fee shall be posted for the public.
- (3) Any fees charged for said tires must not be in excess of the costs of properly removing and disposing of such tires.
- (4) All fees collected on nonfee-paid tires must be submitted to the district at the time the collection center delivers or ships the waste tires for which the fee was collected to the district.
(e)
- (1) If a waste tire collection center accepts large specialty tires, the district shall establish fees for accepting such tires in amounts sufficient to cover the increased disposal costs associated with these types of tires.
- (2) Any fees charged for said tires must not be in excess of the costs of properly removing and disposing of such tires.
- (3) All fees collected on large specialty tires must be submitted to the district at the time the collection center delivers or ships the waste tires for which the fee was collected to the district.