Section 34-21A-2

Definitions.

The following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them as used in this chapter unless the context requires a different meaning:

(1) ALTERNATIVE ONSITE WASTEWATER SYSTEM. An onsite sewage wastewater system that varies from conventional onsite wastewater system equipment, methods, processes, and installation procedures in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Alabama Department of Public Health.

(2) BOARD. The Alabama Onsite Wastewater Board.

(3) CONVENTIONAL ONSITE WASTEWATER SYSTEM. An onsite wastewater system consisting of a septic tank, or an Alabama Department of Public Health approved pretreatment device, with effluent discharging into a subsurface effluent disposal medium, where all portions of the effluent disposal field sidewalls are installed below the elevation of undisturbed native soil.

(4) GOOD STANDING WITH LOCAL HEALTH AUTHORITIES OR OFFICIALS. A person in good standing with local health authorities or officials shall have had no substantiated complaints filed against him or her with the local health authorities or officials regarding the work of the person in the onsite wastewater industry, and shall be known by the local health authorities or officials to be a person who abides by the rules and regulations of the Alabama Department of Public Health.

(5) INDIVIDUAL. A human person.

(6) INSTALLATION. The act of installing a conventional or alternative onsite wastewater system.

(7) LICENSE. A valid and current certificate of qualification issued by the board which shall give the named person to whom it is issued authority to engage in the specialized area and level of qualification described on the certificate.

(8) LICENSEE. A qualified individual holding a license issued by the board.

(9) LICENSING PROCEDURE. The process of testing at the state level to determine the knowledge and skill of an individual with respect to onsite wastewater systems, and the issuing of licenses to indicate that an individual has passed the examinations and met all other board-established qualifications for licensure.

(10) LOCAL HEALTH AUTHORITY OR OFFICIALS. The county health department in the county or counties in which a licensee performs work in or is engaged in the manufacture, installation, cleaning, servicing, or maintenance of onsite wastewater systems or equipment.

(11) MANUFACTURER. Person engaged in the production of septic tanks or receptacle equipment used in onsite wastewater systems.

(12) ONSITE WASTEWATER SYSTEM. Any system of piping, treatment devices, pumps, alarms, or other facilities or devices that carry or convey, store, treat, or dispose of sewage (human waste) where the system is not connected to a public sewer.

(13) RESPONSIBLE CHARGE. The direction or supervision, or both, of projects involving the manufacture, installation, cleaning, servicing, repairing, or maintaining of onsite wastewater equipment or systems.

(14) SERVICING. The act of cleaning, maintaining, or repairing an installed onsite wastewater system.

(Act 99-571, p. 1265, §2; Act 2002-521, p. 1351, §1; Act 2003-58, p. 83, §3.)