Section 920.150  Designation of Agents of the Department

a)         The Department may designate and use full-time municipal, district, county, or multi-county health departments as its agents for the purpose of performing inspections of water well construction, investigating complaints, inspecting existing water wells and inspecting the work of water well drillers.  Such health departments which desire approval as an agent shall make such request in writing to the Department.

b)         The Department shall designate such health departments as its agent provided the health department agrees to issue permits for the construction of all new water wells, perform inspections of all water wells for which a permit has been issued by the health department, inspect all non-community public water supplies, and inspects the sealing of all abandoned water wells and enters into a written agreement with the Department for the conduct of an inspection program.

(Source:  Amended at 18 Ill. Reg. 17684, effective November 30, 1994)