GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

S	1 

SENATE BILL 371

Short Title:  Transfer Authority/Sewage System.	(Public)
─────────────────────────────────────── 
Sponsors: Senator Shaw.
─────────────────────────────────────── 
Referred to:  Environment and Natural Resources.
─────────────────────────────────────── 

March 8, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO TRANSFER JURISDICTION OVER PUBLIC OR COMMUNITY SANITARY SEWAGE SYSTEMS FROM THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT COMMISSION TO THE COMMISSION FOR HEALTH SERVICES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 130A-334 reads as rewritten:
"§ 130A-334. Definitions.
The following definitions shall apply throughout this Article:
(1)	‘Construction' means any work at the site of placement done for the purpose of preparing a residence, place of business or place of public assembly for initial occupancy, or subsequent additions or modifications which increase sewage flow.
(2)	Repealed by Session Laws 1985, c. 462, s. 18, effective June 24, 1985.
(3)	‘Location' means the initial placement for occupancy of a residence, place of business or place of public assembly.
(4),	(5) Repealed by Session Laws 1985, c. 462, s. 18, effective June 24, 1985.
(6)	‘Place of business' means a store, warehouse, manufacturing establishment, place of amusement or recreation, service station, office building or any other place where people work.
(7)	‘Place of public assembly' means a fairground, auditorium, stadium, church, campground, theater or  any other place where people assemble.
	 ”(9)	‘Relocation' means the displacement of a residence or place of business from one site to another.
(10)	‘Residence' means a private home, dwelling unit in a multiple family structure, hotel, motel, summer camp, labor work camp, manufactured home, institution or any other place where people reside.
(11)	‘Sanitary sewage system' means a complete system of sewage collection, treatment and disposal including approved privies, septic tank systems, connection to public or community sewage systems, sewage reuse or recycle systems, mechanical or biological treatment systems, or other such systems.
	Properly managed chemical toilets used only for human waste at mass gatherings, construction sites and labor work camps are considered sanitary sewage systems.
(12)	‘Septic tank system' means a subsurface sanitary sewage system consisting of a settling tank and a subsurface disposal field.
(13)	‘Sewage' means the liquid and solid human body waste and liquid waste generated by water-using fixtures and appliances, including those associated with foodhandling. The term does not include industrial process wastewater or sewage that is combined with industrial process wastewater."
Sec. 2. G.S. 130A-335(b) reads as rewritten:
	"(b) Any sanitary sewage system which is designed to discharge effluent to the land surface or surface waters shall be approved by the Department of Natural Resources and Community Development under rules adopted by the Environmental Management Commission. All other sanitary sewage systems shall be approved by the Department of Human Resources under rules adopted by the Commission for Health Services."
Sec. 3. This act shall become effective October 1, 1989, and shall apply to permits applied for on or after that date.