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DocuSign Envelope ID: E1227292-CABD-4035-9075-56C5CB154254 Minn. Stat. § 115A151 RECYCLING REQUIREMENTS; PUBLIC ENTITIES; COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS; SPORTS FACILITIES. (a) A public entity, the owner of a sports facility, and an owner of a commercial building shall: (1) ensure that facilities under its control, from which mixed municipal solid waste is collected, also collect at least three recyclable materials, such as, but not limited to, paper, glass, plastic, and metal; and (2) transfer all recyclable materials collected to a recycler. (b) For the purposes of this section: (1) "public entity" means the state, an office, agency, or institution of the state, the Metropolitan Council, a metropolitan agency, the Metropolitan Mosquito Control Commission, the legislature, the courts, a county, a statutory or home rule charter city, a town, a school district, a special taxing district, or any entity that receives an appropriation from the state for a capital improvement project after August 1, 2002; (2) "metropolitan agency" and "Metropolitan Council" have the meanings given them in section 473.121; (3) "Metropolitan Mosquito Control Commission" means the commission created in section 473.702; (4) "commercial building" means a building that: (i) is located in a metropolitan county, as defined in section 473.121; (ii) contains a business classified in sectors 42 to 81 under the North American Industrial Classification System; and (iii) contracts for four cubic yards or more per week of solid waste collection; and (5) "sports facility" means a professional or collegiate sports facility at which competitions take place before a public audience. History: ISp1989 c I art 18 s 9; 1991 c 337 s 12; 1996 c 457 s 10; 2002 c 312 s 2; 2014 c 225 s 4; 2014 c 312 art 13 s 24 Minn. Stat. §115A,46 REGIONAL AND LOCAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT PLAN; REQUIREMENTS. Subdivision 1.General. (a) Plans shall address the state policies and purposes expressed in section 115AA2 and may not be inconsistent with state law. (b) Plans for the location, establishment, operation, maintenance, and postclosure use of facilities and facility sites, for ordinances, and for licensing, permit, and enforcement activities shall be consistent with the rules adopted by the agency pursuant to chapter 116. (c) Plans shall address: (1) the resolution of conflicting, duplicative, or overlapping local management efforts; (2) the establishment of joint powers management programs or waste management districts where appropriate; and (3) other matters as the rules of the agency may require consistent with the purposes of sections 115A.42 to I5A.46.