GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1991 SESSION

CHAPTER 287
HOUSE BILL 422

AN ACT TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF THE TERM "OTHER WASTE" AS USED IN THE WATER AND AIR POLLUTION STATUTES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 143-213(18) reads as rewritten:
"(18)	'Waste' shall mean and include the following:
a.	'Sewage,' which shall mean water-carried human waste discharged, transmitted, and collected from residences, buildings, industrial establishments, or other places into a unified sewerage system or an arrangement for sewage disposal or a group of such sewerage arrangements or systems, together with such ground, surface, storm, or other water as may be present.
b. 	'Industrial waste' shall mean any liquid, solid, gaseous, or other waste substance or a combination thereof resulting from any process of industry, manufacture, trade or business, or from the development of any natural resource.
c. 	'Other waste' means sawdust, shavings, lime, refuse, offal, oil, tar chemicals, dissolved and suspended solids, sediment, and all other substances, except industrial waste, sewage, and toxic chemicals which may be discharged into or placed in such proximity to the water that drainage therefrom may reach the water.
d. 	'Toxic waste' means that waste, or combinations of wastes, including disease-causing agents, which after discharge and upon exposure, ingestion, inhalation, or assimilation into any organism, either directly from the environment or indirectly by ingestion through food chains, will cause death, disease, behavioral abnormalities, cancer, genetic mutations, physiological malfunctions (including malfunctions in reproduction) or physical deformities, in such organisms or their offspring."
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective October 1, 1991.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 13th day of June, 1991.

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James C. Gardner
President of the Senate

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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives