CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        SENATE BILL 5105

 

 

                   Chapter 118, Laws of 1999

 

 

                        56th Legislature

                      1999 Regular Session

 

 

PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM--DEFINITION

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/25/99

Passed by the Senate March 11, 1999

  YEAS 48   NAYS 0

 

 

               BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

 

Passed by the House April 12, 1999

  YEAS 93   NAYS 0

             CERTIFICATE

 

I, Tony M. Cook, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  SENATE BILL 5105 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

             CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

            TONY M. COOK

                            Secretary

 

 

 

              FRANK CHOPP

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

 

 

Approved April 28, 1999 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.   

                                FILED          

 

 

           April 28, 1999 - 4:09 p.m.

 

 

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                 Secretary of State

                 State of Washington


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                         SENATE BILL 5105

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             Passed Legislature - 1999 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

 

By Senators Eide, Morton, Jacobsen and Winsley; by request of Department of Health

 

Read first time 01/13/1999.  Referred to Committee on Environmental Quality & Water Resources.

Changing the definition of public water system.  


    AN ACT Relating to revising the definition of public water system to include systems providing water through constructed conveyances, in conformance with federal law; amending RCW 70.119A.020; and creating a new section.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1.  The legislature finds and declares that the provision of safe and reliable water supplies is essential to public health and the continued economic vitality of the state of Washington.  Maintaining the authority necessary to ensure safe and reliable water supplies requires that state laws conform with the provisions of the federal safe drinking water act.  It is the intent of the legislature that the definition of public water system be amended to reflect recent amendments to the federal safe drinking water act.

 

    Sec. 2.  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 single-family residence and a system with four or fewer connections all of which serve residences on the same farm, providing ((piped)) water for human consumption through pipes or other constructed conveyances, 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.


    Passed the Senate March 11, 1999.

    Passed the House April 12, 1999.

Approved by the Governor April 28, 1999.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 28, 1999.