A. To further the goals promoted in the Oklahoma Recycling Initiative, Section 2-10-205 of this title, it is necessary to protect recycled material and the businesses who handle it from unnecessary and burdensome regulation. To prevent such impediments:
1. The generator of recoverable materials shall retain ownership of those materials until the generator donates or sells those materials to another entity. Units of government shall not require such a generator to convey, donate or sell recoverable materials to that government or to a designated facility, nor restrict such a generator's right to donate or sell recoverable materials to any other entity; and
2. The ownership of recoverable materials is transferred to the operator of a recoverable collection program at the time such materials are placed into a container provided by the operator for the collection of such materials. If the operator is operating under a contract with and on behalf of a unit of government, the terms of the contract shall determine the ownership of the recoverable materials.
B. No provision of this section shall be construed to prevent units of government from requiring generators of recoverable materials under their jurisdiction to separate recoverable materials for recycling collection.
Added by Laws 1996, c. 270, § 1, emerg. eff. May 29, 1996.