Fill receiving site

Definition

Where excavated material may legally land, which is the receiver's status and not the mileage.

Why It Matters

No law measures the haul. What law reaches is where the material may land and who keeps the record, and it changes completely across a state line. New York bars two fill types from four named counties outright, lets one of them be reused only inside the county that generated it, requires the receiving project to hold a building permit or municipal authorization, requires use within thirty days of arrival, forbids the receiver taking payment for accepting it, and makes generator, processor and receiver each keep quantities and analytical data for three years. Virginia exempts rocks, brick, block, dirt, broken concrete and road pavement as clean fill with no permit, no location rule and no record at all. So a route's disposal arrangement is a legal instrument in one state and a handshake in another, and only one of those survives a sale.