444.598 - Solid waste management authority: Recovery of damages resulting from violations.

444.598  Solid waste management authority: Recovery of damages resulting from violations.  The solid waste management authority may bring an action in a court of competent jurisdiction to recover actual damages which result from a violation of a statute or regulation, any term or condition of a permit issued pursuant to NRS 444.505, 444.553 or 444.556, or any order issued pursuant to NRS 444.592. The damages may include expenses incurred by the authority in testing for and removing, correcting or terminating any adverse effects which resulted from the violation and costs and attorney’s fees, including those incurred in administrative proceedings. This remedy is in addition to any other remedy provided in NRS 444.440 to 444.620, inclusive.

      (Added to NRS by 1993, 13; A 1993, 1421; 2009, 1083)