Definitions.

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The following words and terms, unless the context clearly indicates a different meaning, have the following meanings:

(1)"Affected residence" refers to a residence which has an ISDS failure or a contaminated domestic water supply;

(2)"Contaminated domestic water supply" refers to the primary source of drinking and household water for a residence which fails to meet generally accepted drinking water standards, or which the department of health has certified as undrinkable;

(3)"Domestic individual sewage disposal system" ("ISDS") refers to an existing disposal system which services an owner occupied, single family residence;

(4)"Failed domestic individual disposal system" refers to an ISDS system which has been determined to have failed by the land resources section of the department of environmental management, or a system which has required pumping out more than four (4) times in a one-year period;

(5)"Multiple domestic individual sewage disposal system failure" refers to a number of failed ISDS systems in close proximity to one another.

History of Section.
P.L. 1984, ch. 420, § 1.


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