Arkansas Administrative Code › Agency 007 - ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Division 04 - Environmental Health Services › Rule 007.04.23-002 - Rules Pertaining to Septic Tank Cleaners

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, June, 2024
SECTION I AUTHORITY
The following Rules Pertaining to Septic Tank Cleaning
				Operations Within the State of Arkansas are duly adopted and promulgated by the
				Arkansas State Board of Health pursuant to the laws of the State of Arkansas
				including, Act 71 of 1973 as amended (Ark. Code Ann. §
									17-45-101 -105) and Act 96 of 1913
				(Ark. Code Ann.§
									20-7-101, et seq.).
SECTION II DEFINITIONS
(A) APPROVED. Acceptable to the Department
			 following a determination of compliance with appropriate public health and
			 environmental standards.
(B)
			 AUTHORIZED AGENT. The Environmental Health Specialist assigned to the County by
			 the Department.
(C) AUTOMATIC
			 LICENSURE. The granting of the occupational licensure without an individual
			 having met occupational licensure requirements provided under the Arkansas Code
			 or by other provisions in these Rules.
(D) AUTOMATIC OCCUPATIONAL LICENSURE. The
			 granting of occupational licensure to an applicant who establishes residency
			 within this state without the individual's having met occupational licensure
			 requirements under Title 17 of the Arkansas Code or by these Rules.
(E) BOUND RECORD. A tamper resistant book
			 with numbered, non-removable pages with entries made with indelible
			 ink.
(F) THE DEPARTMENT. The
			 Arkansas Department of Health or its authorized agent.
(G) EQUIPMENT. All tanks, devices, tools and
			 implements used in the cleaning or pumping of septic tanks, holding tanks,
			 marine sanitation devices, portable toilets, or other sewage handling
			 facilities
(H) HOLDING TANK. A
			 septic tank, marine sanitation device, portable toilet, or other device used
			 for the temporary storage of untreated human waste.
(I) LAND APPLICATION. A method of septage
			 disposal utilizing either surface spreading, subsurface injection, burial or
			 other process approved by the Department.
(J) LICENSEE. The licensed owner or operator
			 of a business, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of cleaning septic
			 tanks, marine sanitation devices, portable toilets, and or the transporting of
			 septage or sewage.
(K) MARINE
			 SANITATION DEVICE. Any device on board a vessel designed to retain, treat, or
			 discharge human body waste.
(L)
			 PORTABLE TOILET. Any equipment used to receive and retain human waste prior to
			 its delivery to a sewage treatment facility.
(M) PUMPER VEHICLE. Any truck, trailer, boat,
			 tank or combination thereof used to transport septage or sewage.
(N) SCUM. The partially submerged mat of
			 floating solids that forms at the surface of septic tanks or sewage handling
			 facilities.
(O) SEPTAGE. The
			 liquid, scum and sludge from a septic tank or sewage handling facility
			 excluding biosolids from a municipal or publicly owned treatment
			 facility.
(P) SEPTIC TANK CLEANER.
			 Any person, firm, corporation, or association which cleans septic tanks, marine
			 sanitation devices, portable toilets, or transports septage or sewage within
			 the State of Arkansas.
(Q) SEWAGE.
			 The contents of holding tanks, marine sanitation devices, portable toilets, or
			 other tanks used for the storage of human waste.
(R) SLUDGE. The accumulation of settled,
			 solid material in the bottom of a septic tank or sewage handling
			 facility.
(S) UNIFORMED SERVICE
			 MEMBER. An active or reserve component member of the United States Air Force,
			 United States Army, United States Coast Guard, United States Marine Corps,
			 United States Navy, United States Space Force, or National Guard; an active
			 component member of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
			 Commissioned Officer Corps; or an active or reserve component member of the
			 United States Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service.
(T) UNIFORMED SERVICE VETERAN. A former
			 member of the United States uniformed services discharged under conditions
			 other than dishonorable.