BILL REQ. #:  H-4282.1 

Read first time 01/15/10.   Referred to Committee on Environmental Health.

     AN ACT Relating to maintenance inspections of on-site sewage systems; and adding a new section to chapter 70.05 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 70.05 RCW to read as follows:
     If the state board of health or a local board of health requires an on-site sewage system with design flows of less than three thousand five hundred gallons per day to be periodically inspected for maintenance and operation purposes, the local board of health must provide the option for the property owner, or the property owner's designee, to perform the inspection. The local board of health shall adopt policies to determine the qualifications required for the property owner, or designee, to perform an inspection. The property owner, or designee, must be certified as a qualified inspector by the local board of health before he or she is authorized to perform the inspection.