Section 260.003

Title XVI CONSERVATION, RESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT

Chapter 260

Effective - 28 Aug 1995 

  260.003.  All licenses, permits or grants of authority by department must be in compliance with local area's zoning, building, health codes or ordinances, procedure to determine compliance. — Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, the department of natural resources shall require that before any permit, license, or grant of authority is issued or renewed by the department of natural resources pursuant to this chapter, the local jurisdiction shall verify that the person and activity which is the subject of such permit, license, or grant of authority, is in compliance with all applicable local zoning, building, and health codes, ordinances, and orders with  regard to the person and activity regulated pursuant to this chapter.  Failure of the local jurisdiction to respond to a request from the department of natural resources for such verification within thirty days of such request shall be deemed to be verification of local compliance.

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(L. 1995 S.B. 60 & 112 § 1)

(1998) Amendment in SB 60 (1995) was unconstitutional to the extent that it applied to hazardous waste management because title of bill was underinclusive.  National Solid Waste Management Association v. Director of the Department of Natural Resources, 964 S.W.2d 818 (Mo.banc).