Illinois Compiled Statutes

415 ILCS 5/3.500 (2026)

Transfer station

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(415 ILCS 5/3.500) (was 415 ILCS 5/3.83)
    Sec. 3.500. Transfer station. "Transfer station" means a site or facility that accepts waste for temporary storage or consolidation and further transfer to a waste disposal, treatment or storage facility. "Transfer station" includes a site where waste is transferred from (1) a rail carrier to a motor vehicle or water carrier; (2) a water carrier to a rail carrier or motor vehicle; (3) a motor vehicle to a rail carrier, water carrier or motor vehicle; (4) a rail carrier to a rail carrier, if the waste is removed from a rail car; or (5) a water carrier to a water carrier, if the waste is removed from a vessel.
    "Transfer station" does not include (i) a site where waste is not removed from the transfer container, or (ii) a site that accepts or receives open top units containing only clean construction and demolition debris, or (iii) a site that stores waste on a refuse motor vehicle or in the vehicle's detachable refuse receptacle for no more than 24 hours, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, but only if the detachable refuse receptacle is completely covered or enclosed and is stored on the same site as the refuse motor vehicle that transported the receptacle to the site.
    Nothing in this Section shall be construed to be less stringent than or inconsistent with the provisions of the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (P.L. 94-480) or regulations adopted under it.
(Source: P.A. 92-574, eff. 6-26-02.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 7 cases, 2004–2019 · leading case: Vill. of South Elgin v. Waste Mgmt. of Illinois, Inc., 810 N.E.2d 658 (Ill. App. Ct. 2004).
Vill. of South Elgin v. Waste Mgmt. of Illinois, Inc., 810 N.E.2d 658 (Ill. App. Ct. 2004). “A transfer station is a “site or facility that accepts waste for temporary storage or consolidation and further transfer to a waste disposal, treatment or storage facility” (415 ILCS 5/3.500 (West 2002)). The proposed installation would occupy about 9 acres of the 120-acre area…”
Sierra Club v. Illinois Pollution Control, 936 N.E.2d 670 (Ill. App. Ct. 2010). · cites it 4× “" 415 ILCS 5/3.500 (West 2008). Here, the actions proposed by PDC do not fit the definition of a new pollution control facility.”
Will Cnty. v. Vill. of Rockdale, 2018 IL App (3d) 160463 (Ill. App. Ct. 2019). “500 of the Illinois Environmental Protection Act (the ‘Act’) (415 ILCS 5/3.500), the Moen Transfer Station located generally north of the intersection of Moen Ave.”
Will Cnty. v. Vill. of Rockdale, 2018 IL App (3d) 160463 (Ill. App. Ct. 2018). “500 of the Illinois Environmental Protection Act (the 'Act') ( 415 ILCS 5/3.500 ), the Moen Transfer Station located generally north of the intersection of Moen Ave.”
Will Cnty. v. Vill. of Rockdale, 2018 IL App (3d) 160463 (Ill. App. Ct. 2018). “500 of the Illinois Environmental Protection Act (the ‘Act’) (415 ILCS 5/3.500), the Moen Transfer Station located generally north of the intersection of Moen Ave.”
Sierra Club v. Illinois Pollution Control Bd. (Ill. App. Ct. 2010). “" 415 ILCS 5/3.500 (West 2008). Here, the actions proposed by PDC do not fit the definition of a new pollution control facility.”
Vill. of South Elgin v. Waste Mgmt. of Illinois, Inc. (Ill. App. Ct. 2004). “A transfer station is a "site or facility that accepts waste for temporary storage or consolidation and further transfer to a waste disposal, treatment or storage facility" (415 ILCS 5/3.500 (West 2002)). The proposed installation would occupy about 9 acres of the 120-acre area…”
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