§ 512-4. Seizure of conveyances.

A. 

Any police officer or environmental conservation officer may seize any conveyance, including motor vehicles, trailers, vessels, aircraft or other means of transportation, which he reasonably believes is being used to illegally transport or dispose of hazardous waste as defined herein.

B. 

Said seized conveyance shall be subject to forfeiture, as provided in this article, where it is established by a preponderance of credible evidence that the conveyance was used to intentionally, knowingly, recklessly or with criminal negligence transport or dispose of hazardous waste as defined herein.

C. 

Nothing in the foregoing shall be deemed to apply to a conveyance used by a duly licensed scavenger waste hauler transporting waste which is accompanied by a signed statement from the generator thereof, certifying that, to the best of the generator's knowledge, the waste is not a hazardous waste as defined herein.