Any person commits a Class B4 felony offense of unlawful concealment of hazardous waste who knowingly and willfully subjects any other person, including but not limited to peace officers, emergency responders or clean-up crews, to the potential for immediate or long-term risk to their health or safety by exposure to chemical wastes, by knowingly and willfully:

1. 1. Concealing or causing other persons to conceal the unlawful abandonment or disposal of hazardous waste;
2. 2. Concealing or causing other persons to conceal that hazardous waste is being transported; or
3. 3. Misrepresenting or causing other persons to misrepresent the type of hazardous waste being transported.

Laws 1992, SB 922, c. 363, § 7, emerg. eff. June 4, 1992; Amended by Laws 1993, HB 1002, c. 145, § 344, emerg. eff. July 1, 1993; Amended by Laws 2025, HB 2104, c. 486, § 120, eff. January 1, 2026 (superseded document available).