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SENATE BILL 6370
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State of Washington 54th Legislature 1996 Regular Session
By Senators Roach, Morton and A. Anderson
Read first time 01/12/96. Referred to Committee on Energy, Telecommunications & Utilities.
AN ACT Relating to defining public water system; and amending RCW 70.119A.020.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 70.119A.020 and 1994 c 252 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the following definitions apply throughout this chapter:
(1) "Department" means the department of health.
(2) "Local board of health" means the city, town, county, or district board of health.
(3) "Local health jurisdiction" means an entity created under chapter 70.05, 70.08, or 70.46 RCW which provides public health services to persons within the area.
(4) "Public water
system" means any system, excluding a system serving ((only)) one or
two single-family residences and a system with four or fewer
connections all of which serve residences on the same farm, providing piped
water for human consumption, including any collection, treatment, storage, or
distribution facilities under control of the purveyor and used primarily in
connection with the system; and collection or pretreatment storage facilities
not under control of the purveyor but primarily used in connection with the
system, including:
(a) Any collection, treatment, storage, and distribution facilities under control of the purveyor and used primarily in connection with such system; and
(b) Any collection or pretreatment storage facilities not under control of the purveyor which are primarily used in connection with such system.
(5) "Order" means a written direction to comply with a provision of the regulations adopted under RCW 43.20.050(2)(a) or 70.119.050 or to take an action or a series of actions to comply with the regulations.
(6) "Purveyor" means any agency or subdivision of the state or any municipal corporation, firm, company, mutual or cooperative association, institution, partnership, or person or any other entity, that owns or operates a public water system. It also means the authorized agents of any such entities.
(7) "Regulations" means rules adopted to carry out the purposes of this chapter.
(8) "Federal safe drinking water act" means the federal safe drinking water act, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 300f et seq., as now in effect or hereafter amended.
(9) "Area-wide waivers" means a waiver granted by the department as a result of a geographically based testing program meeting required provisions of the federal safe drinking water act.
(10) "Local health officer" means the legally qualified physician who has been appointed as the health officer for the city, town, county, or district public health department.
(11) "Person" includes, but is not limited to, natural persons, municipal corporations, governmental agencies, firms, companies, mutual or cooperative associations, institutions, and partnerships. It also means the authorized agents of any such entities.
(12) "Public health emergency" means a declaration by an authorized health official of a situation in which either illness, or exposure known to cause illness, is occurring or is imminent.
(13) "Secretary" means the secretary of the department of health.
(14) "State board of health" is the board created by RCW 43.20.030.
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