42. Daily operations: Solid waste dumped on a sanitary landfill site must be mechanically compacted in uniform layers not exceeding 2 metres and the surface of each compacted layer must be covered with at least 20 centimetres of a cover material as described in section 48 as the layer of compacted solid waste progresses.
The solid waste must be evenly compacted and covered with 20 centimetres of the same cover material after each day of operation where landfill operations are interrupted for a period longer than 8 hours and at least once daily in the case of continuous landfilling. Any operation interrupted for 8 hours or less is considered to be a continuous landfill operation.
R.R.Q., 1981, c. Q-2, r. 14, s. 42.