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Commission refers landfill bill to legislative committee, approves sheriff PTO policy and a software license
Summary
The commission voted to send 'Jackson's law'—a proposal giving counties authority to regulate new landfills—to the legislative committee; it also approved a sheriff's PTO policy and a budgeted Snowman Technologies/Microsoft license agreement (packet price cited at $15,000).
At the March 2 meeting, Sumner County commissioners referred a proposed local-adoption measure commonly called "Jackson's law" to the legislative committee for further study and review by relevant bodies.
County legal counsel described Jackson's law as a statute that would let counties regulate and approve new landfill construction locally, require public notices and hearings and involve the solid-waste board; legal counsel said the measure requires a two-thirds vote for…
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