§ 7-239.2. Legislative findings; compliance with requirements of subtitle

   (a) Legislative findings. -- The State of Maryland finds that the chemical warfare materials specified under § 7-239.1 of this subtitle were designed for warfare, specifically the destruction of human beings, and for no legitimate civilian industrial use.

(b) Disposal to ensure health and safety of State residents. -- The State recognizes the need to dispose of these chemical warfare materials as safely as possible, ensuring the health and safety of State residents by the regulation of their release into the environment.

(c) Compliance with requirements of subtitle. -- Since these chemical warfare materials are highly toxic or carcinogenic, in addition to any other applicable requirements at law, the State shall require without exemption or waiver that an applicant for the treatment by incineration of chemical warfare materials shall comply with all the requirements of this subtitle and all regulations adopted under this subtitle.

HISTORY: 1993, ch. 612.