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House Study Bill 705

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 455B.172, subsection 5, unnumbered
  1  2 paragraph 2, Code 1999, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    The department shall by rule adopt standards for the
  1  4 commercial cleaning of private sewage disposal facilities,
  1  5 including but not limited to septic tanks and pits used to
  1  6 collect waste in livestock confinement structures, and for the
  1  7 disposal of waste from the facilities.  The standards shall
  1  8 not be in conflict with the state building code.  A person
  1  9 shall not commercially clean such facilities or dispose of
  1 10 waste from such facilities unless the person has been issued a
  1 11 license by the department and a wastewater treatment plant
  1 12 shall not accept from an unlicensed person any waste from
  1 13 private sewage disposal facilities.  The department shall be
  1 14 exclusively responsible for adopting the standards and issuing
  1 15 licenses.  However, county boards of health shall enforce the
  1 16 standards and licensing requirements established by the
  1 17 department.  Application for the license shall be made in the
  1 18 manner provided by the department.  Licenses expire one year
  1 19 from the date of issue unless revoked and may be renewed in
  1 20 the manner provided by the department.  The license or license
  1 21 renewal fee is twenty-five fifty dollars.  A person violating
  1 22 this section or the rules adopted pursuant to this section, is
  1 23 subject to a civil penalty of not more than twenty-five five
  1 24 thousand dollars.  Each day that a violation continues
  1 25 constitutes a separate offense.  However, the total civil
  1 26 penalty shall not exceed five hundred dollars per year.  The
  1 27 penalty shall be assessed for a violation occurring ten days
  1 28 following written notice of the violation delivered to the
  1 29 person by the department or a county board of health.  Moneys
  1 30 collected by the department or a county board of health from
  1 31 the imposition of civil penalties shall be deposited in the
  1 32 general fund of the state.  
  1 33                           EXPLANATION
  1 34    This bill amends Code section 455B.172 to increase the
  1 35 licensing fee for applicants for a commercial cleaning of
  2  1 private sewage disposal facilities license.  The civil penalty
  2  2 amount for violations relating to the commercial cleaning of
  2  3 private sewage disposal facilities is increased and the total
  2  4 civil fine ceiling for such violations is removed.  The bill
  2  5 prohibits a wastewater treatment plant from accepting from an
  2  6 unlicensed person any waste from private sewage disposal
  2  7 facilities.  
  2  8 LSB 5956DP 78
  2  9 tm/as/5.1
     

Text: HSB00704                          Text: HSB00706
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