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(2) specify the material to be separated; and <br />(3) require cities and towns to meet any performance standards for source <br />separation that are contained in the county solid waste plan. <br />(b) A county may itself organize collection under subdivision 4 in any <br />city or town that does not comply with a county organized collection <br />ordinance adopted under this subdivision, and the county may implement, as <br />part of its organized collection, the source separation program and <br />performance standards required by its organized collection ordinance. <br />Subd. 6. Organized collection not required or prevented. (a) The <br />authority granted in this section to organize solid waste collection is <br />optional and is in addition to authority to govern solid waste collection <br />granted by other law. <br />(b) Except as provided in subdivision 5, a city, town, or county is not: <br />(1) required to organize collection; or <br />(2) prevented from organizing collection of solid waste or recyclable <br />material. <br />(c) Except as provided in subdivision 5, a city, town, or county may <br />exercise any authority granted by any other law, including a home rule <br />• charter, to govern collection of solid waste. <br />Subd. 7. Anticompetitive conduct. (a) A political subdivision that <br />organizes collection under this section is authorized to engage in <br />anticompetitive conduct to the extent necessary to plan and implement its <br />chosen organized collection system and is immune from liability under state <br />laws relating to antitrust, restraint of trade, unfair trade practices, and <br />other regulation of trade or commerce. <br />(b) An organization of solid waste collectors, an individual collector, <br />and their officers, members, employees, and agents who cooperate with a <br />political subdivision that organizes collection under this section are <br />authorized to engage in anticompetitive conduct to the extent necessary to <br />plan and implement the organized collection system, provided that the <br />political subdivision actively supervises the participation of each entity. <br />An organization, entity, or person covered by this paragraph is immune from <br />liability under state law relating to antitrust, restraint of trade, unfair <br />trade practices, and other regulation of trade or commerce. <br />HIST: 1987 c 348 s 27; 1989 c 325 s 26,27; 1990 c 600 s 1,2; 1991 c 337 s <br />46; 1993 c 249 s 20,21 <br />Copyright 2003 by the Office of Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota. <br />~5 <br />