Minnesota Administrative Rules
Agency 167 - Pollution Control Agency
Chapter 7035 - SOLID WASTE
ABANDONED MOTOR VEHICLES AND SCRAP METAL
Part 7035.3300 - REGIONAL COLLECTION SITES

Subpart 1. In general.

All units of government may maintain or contract for the maintenance of one or more regional collection sites. Such regional collection sites shall satisfy the requirements specified herein.

Subp. 2. Location.

Regional collection sites shall be those sites designated as such by one or more counties, separately or in cooperation with another county or counties, and approved by the agency. Where feasible, they should be located at or near locations where accumulations or motor vehicle hulks are already present and where haul distances needed to accumulate an adequate number of hulks are minimized.

Subp. 3. Size.

Regional collection sites must be of size and location which will permit access by large heavy transport vehicles by means of all weather roads.

Subp. 4. Site users.

Regional collection sites shall be open to any person desiring to dispose of an abandoned motor vehicle or vehicles or other scrap metal therein, and such person may voluntarily surrender the vehicle, vehicles, or other scrap metal by depositing the same at a regional collection site and either transferring any applicable certificate of title to the site operator, or executing a release of any interest in the vehicle or scrap metal to the site operator upon a form approved by the agency. Each site operator shall publicize, within the area served by the site, the existence and location of the site, its hours of operation, and its availability for disposition of abandoned motor vehicles and other scrap metal.

Subp. 5. Site operator.

There shall be a site operator for every regional collection site. The site operator shall have responsibility for the operation, maintenance, and administration of the site.