California Code of Regulations › Title 17 - Public Health › Division 1 - State Department of Health Services › Chapter 5 - Sanitation (Environmental) › Subchapter 1 - Engineering (Sanitary) › Group 4 - Drinking Water Supplies › Article 1 - General › Section 7583 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
In addition to the definitions in Section
						  116275
						  of the Health and Safety Code, the following terms are defined for the purpose of
						  this Chapter:
(a) "Approved Water Supply"
						is a water supply whose potability is regulated by a State of local health
						agency.
(b) "Auxiliary Water Supply" is
						any water supply other than that received from a public water system.
(c) "Air-gap Separation (AG)" is a physical break
						between the supply line and a receiving vessel.
(d) "AWWA Standard" is an official standard
						developed and approved by the American Water Works Association (AWWA).
(e) "Cross-Connection" is an unprotected actual or
						potential connection between a potable water system used to supply water for
						drinking purposes and any source or system containing unapproved water or a
						substance that is not or cannot be approved as safe, wholesome, and potable. By-pass
						arrangements, jumper connections, removable sections, swivel or changeover devices,
						or other devices through which backflow could occur, shall be considered to be
						cross-connections.
(f) "Double Check
						Valve Assembly (DC)" is an assembly of at least two independently acting check
						valves including tightly closing shut-off valves on each side of the check valve
						assembly and test cocks available for testing the watertightness of each check
						valve.
(g) "Health Agency" means the
						State Water Resources Control Board, or the local health officer with respect to a
						small water system.
(h) "Local Health
						Agency" means the county or city health authority.
(i) "Reclaimed Water" is a wastewater which as a
						result of treatment is suitable for uses other than potable use.
(j) "Reduced Pressure Principle Backflow
						Prevention Device (RP)" is a backflow preventer incorporating not less than two
						check valves, an automatically operated differential relief valve located between
						the two check valves, a tightly closing shut-off valve on each side of the check
						valve assembly, and equipped with necessary test cocks for testing.
(k) "User Connection" is the point of connection
						of a user's piping to the water supplier's facilities.
(l) "Water Supplier" is the person who owns or
						operates the public water system.
(m)
						"Water User" is any person obtaining water from a public water supply.
1. Repealer
						  of Articles 1 through 10 and New Articles 1 through 4 (Sections
						  7583,
						  7588 through
						  7594,
						  7603 through
						  7605, and
						  7615 through
						  7622) filed 5-8-53; effective thirtieth
						  day thereafter (Register 53, no. 8).
2. New section filed 5-26-87;
						  operative 6-25-87 (register 87, No. 23).
3. Change without regulatory
						  effect amending first paragraph and NOTE filed 4-21-2011 pursuant to section
						  100, title 1, California Code of
						  Regulations (Register 2011, No. 16).
4. Change without regulatory effect
						  amending subsection (g) and NOTE filed 6-2-2015 pursuant to section
						  100, title 1, California Code of
						  Regulations (Register 2015, No. 23).
5. Governor Newsom issued Executive
						  Order N-68-20 (2019 CA EO 68-20), dated June 5, 2020, relating to the extension of
						  deadlines for entities to submit renewal-fee payments to the Department of Public
						  Health.
Note: Authority cited: Sections
							 116271,
							 116350,
							 116375
							 and
							 116555,
							 Health and Safety Code. Reference: Sections
							 116325,
							 116350
							 and
							 116555,
							 Health and Safety Code.