HB4800 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB093 19842 AMC 45585 b

93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB4800

Introduced 02/04/04, by Frank J. Mautino

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

225 ILCS 225/1	from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 116.301
225 ILCS 225/2	from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 116.302
225 ILCS 225/3	from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 116.303

Amends the Private Sewage Disposal Licensing Act. Makes technical changes in Sections concerning the short title, the purpose of the Act, and the definitions.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning professional regulation.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Private Sewage Disposal Licensing Act is amended by changing Sections 1, 2, and 3 as follows:

(225 ILCS 225/1) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 116.301)

Sec. 1. Short title. This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Private Sewage Disposal Licensing Act".

(Source: P.A. 78-812.)

(225 ILCS 225/2) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 116.302)

Sec. 2. Purpose of Act. It is hereby declared that there exists, and may in the future exist, within the State of Illinois, private sewage disposal systems which are designed, constructed, operated, maintained or serviced or which may be designed, constructed, operated, maintained, or serviced in such a manner as to cause spread of infectious or contagious disease and such conditions adversely affect the public health, safety and general welfare of persons. Therefore, the purpose of this Act is to protect, promote and preserve the public health, safety and general welfare by providing for the licensing of private sewage disposal contractors and the establishment and enforcement of a minimum code of standards for design, construction, materials, operation and maintenance of private sewage disposal systems, for the transportation and disposal of wastes therefrom, and for private sewage disposal servicing equipment.

(Source: P.A. 78-812.)

(225 ILCS 225/3) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 116.303)

Sec. 3. Definitions. As used in this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "Domestic Sewage" means waste water derived principally from dwellings, business or office buildings, institutions, food service establishments, and similar facilities.

(2) "Director" means Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health.

(3) "Department" means the Illinois Department of Public Health.

(4) "Human Wastes" means undigested food and by-products of metabolism which are passed out of the human body.

(5) "Person" means any individual, group of individuals, association, trust, partnership, corporation, person doing business under an assumed name, the State of Illinois or any Department thereof, or any other entity.

(6) "Population Equivalent" means an average waste loading equivalent to that produced by one person which is defined as 100 gallons per day.

(7) "Private Sewage Disposal System" means any sewage handling or treatment facility receiving domestic sewage from less than 15 people or population equivalent and having a ground surface discharge or any sewage handling or treatment facility receiving domestic sewage and having no ground surface discharge.

(8) "Private Sewage Disposal System Installation Contractor" means any person constructing, installing, repairing, modifying, or maintaining private sewage disposal systems.

(9) "Property Owner" means the person in whose name legal title to the real estate is recorded.

(10) "Waste" means either human waste or domestic sewage or both.

(11) "Private Sewage Disposal System Pumping Contractor" means any person who cleans or pumps waste from a private sewage disposal system or hauls or disposes of wastes removed therefrom.

(Source: P.A. 84-670.)