§ 32-36. Authority to prohibit dumping, burial, or sanitary landfill, or issue permits for such methods of disposal; duty to regulate disposal of wastes.

(1)

The Board of County Commissioners of Orange County is authorized to prohibit the dumping or burial of garbage and other waste matter, and the use of [a] sanitary landfill as a method of disposal of garbage and other waste matter within the unincorporated areas of the county unless the person, firm, corporation, municipality or political subdivision using such method or methods of disposal first obtains a permit from said board of county commissioners. The privilege to use such methods of disposal shall be exercised under the control and supervision of said board of county commissioners. Said board may prohibit entirely the dumping or burial of garbage and other waste matter and the use of sanitary landfill within the unincorporated areas of the county, or within any district or districts therein, when other facilities for disposal are available.

(2)

Each municipality within Orange County within its respective territorial limits, shall have and exercise the same authority to prohibit dumping or burial of garbage and other waste matter and the use of sanitary landfill, to issue permits for the use of such methods of disposal, and to control and supervise said methods of disposal as that given above to the board of county commissioners in respect to the unincorporated areas of the county.

(3)

Whenever it deems necessary for the public health and safety in the county, the board of county commissioners shall require that all persons, as defined in section 1.01, Florida Statutes, use only the county's waste collection and disposal system for the disposal of all wastes generated or occurring or otherwise existing on lands within the service area, and such requirements shall be valid and enforceable irrespective of its anticompetitive effects, if any.

(Code 1965, § 15-37; Laws of Fla. ch. 69-1371, § 27; Laws of Fla. ch. 84-491, § 5)