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County adopts ordinance to ban polystyrene food-service containers, enforcement to be complaint-driven
Summary
York County adopted a local ordinance mirroring state law to ban polystyrene food-service containers, delegating administration to the county administrator, allowing one-year hardship exemptions and using a complaint-driven enforcement model with a $50 per-day civil penalty.
The York County Board of Supervisors voted to adopt a local ordinance implementing a ban on polystyrene (polystyrene) food-service containers that largely mirrors the state statute and delegates administration to the county administrator.
Mister Krieger, describing the ordinance to the board, said the state code phases in a ban and that the county draft mirrors that timeline while adding an exemption process…
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