A. The Board shall promulgate rules as may be necessary to implement the provisions of this part pertaining to water supply systems and the treatment and distribution of water to the public, including but not limited to rules for:
1. The construction and extension of such systems;
2. Specifications and directions as to the source, manner of storage, purification, treatment and distribution of water supplied to the public;
3. Requirements for control tests, laboratory checks, operating records and reports, including the submission of water samples for testing or sample analyses as prescribed by the federal Safe Drinking Water Act and this Code; and
4. Permitting requirements.
B. The Department of Environmental Quality shall recommend standards to the public for individual water supplies.
C. Such rules may provide for the exemption, and conditions therefor, of specified categories of water supply systems from any of the requirements thereof, except for wastewater discharges, if the public health will not thereby be endangered.
Added by Laws 1963, c. 325, art. 9, § 904, operative July 1, 1963. Amended by Laws 1981, c. 277, § 2, emerg. eff. June 26, 1981; Laws 1993, c. 145, § 70, eff. July 1, 1993. Renumbered from Title 63, § 1-904 by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 359, eff. July 1, 1993.