Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 51 - PUBLIC HEALTH-SANITARY CODE › Part XIII - Sewage Disposal › Chapter 1 - General [formerly Chapter 13 Subpart A] › Section XIII-101 - Definitions [formerly Paragraph 13:001]

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. As used in this Part, the terms defined in this Chapter
				  supplement any definitions which may be set forth in law and shall have the
				  following meanings and/or applications, unless the context or use thereof
				  clearly indicates otherwise, or more explicit definitions and/or applications
				  are referenced. Terms not defined or referenced herein shall have the meanings
				  as defined in the other Parts of the sanitary code of the state of Louisiana.
				  In any instance where a term defined herein is also defined in one or more
				  other Parts of this Code, the definition contained in this Part shall be given
				  preference as it pertains to sewage disposal.
Commercial Treatment Facility
(designed in
				  accordance with §503) - any treatment facility which is required by the state
				  health officer whenever the use of an individual sewerage system is unfeasible
				  or not authorized.
Community Sewerage System
- any sewerage
				  system which serves multiple connections and consists of a collection and/or
				  pumping/transport system and treatment facility.
Conventional Septic Tank System
- a septic
				  tank system which consists of a septic tank(s) followed by a subsurface
				  absorption field.
Facility
or
Facilities
-
				  any or all of the apparatus and appurtenances associated with a sanitary sewage
				  treatment system, element, or process.
Gravelless Pipe
- a proprietary device
				  which may be used in lieu of conventional subsurface absorption field materials
				  when approved by the state health officer.
Individual Mechanical Plant
- a treatment
				  facility which provides primary and secondary treatment of sanitary sewage by
				  use of aerobic bacterial action which is sustained by mechanical means.
Individual Sewerage System
- any system of
				  piping (excluding the building drain), and/or collection and/or transport
				  system which serves one or more connections, and/or pumping facility, and
				  treatment facility, all located on the property where the sanitary sewage
				  originates; and which utilizes the individual sewerage system technology which
				  is set forth in Chapter 7 Subchapter B of this Part, or a commercial treatment
				  facility which is specifically authorized for use by the state health
				  officer.
Limited Use Sewerage System
- a sewerage
				  system which may be authorized by the state health officer for installation or
				  use for a structure or dwelling which is occupied less than four days in a
				  week, and the use of which generates less than 100 GPD of sanitary
				  sewage.
Manufacturer
- a person who engages in the
				  business or practice of constructing individual mechanical sewerage treatment
				  systems, and who is responsible for having the system evaluated in compliance
				  with §725. D of this Part.
Outfall Path
-the path or course by which
				  effluent leaving the final treatment unit of a community sewerage system or
				  individual sewerage system reaches its ultimate receiving navigable stream or
				  body of water.
Person
- any natural person, partnership,
				  corporation, association, governmental subdivision, receiver, tutor, curator,
				  executor, administrator, fiduciary, or representative of another person, or
				  public or private organization of any character.
Premises
- any structure or dwelling of any
				  construction whatsoever in which a person may live, work, or congregate.
Sanitary Sewage
- any and all human waste
				  and/or domestic waste, the disposal of which requires a sewerage system
				  approved or authorized by the state health officer. Sanitary sewage may include
				  its conveying liquid and/or any other liquid or solid material which may be
				  present therein.
Secondary Treatment Standard
- a sewage
				  effluent water quality standard which prescribes a maximum 30-day average
				  concentration of biochemical oxygen demand (5-day basis) of 30 milligrams per
				  liter (mg/l), and a maximum daily concentration of biochemical oxygen demand
				  (5-day basis) of 45 mg/l. The 30-day average concentration is an arithmetic
				  mean of the values for all effluent samples collected in the sampling period.
				  The analyses to be performed for the purpose of determining compliance with
				  these effluent limitations and standards shall be in accordance with the
				  eighteenth edition of the "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and
				  Wastewater," available from the American Public Health Association 1015
				  Eighteenth Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20036, except where otherwise
				  specified.
Septic Tank System
- an individual sewerage
				  system which consists of a septic tank(s) followed by a process which treats
				  and disposes of the septic tank effluent.
Sewerage System
- any system of piping
				  (excluding the building drain and building sewer) and/or collection and/or
				  transport system and/or pumping facility and/or treatment facility, all for the
				  purpose of collecting, transporting, pumping, treating and/or disposing of
				  sanitary sewage.
Subdivision
for the purpose of these
				  regulations-
a. the division, or the process or results thereof, of any
				  land into two or more lots, tracts, parcels, or plots, any one of which has an
				  area of less than 3 acres; or
b. the re-subdivision of land heretofore divided into lots,
				  tracts, sites or parcels; provided, however, that minimum lot size restrictions
				  presented in §511. B shall not apply to:
i. a subdivision legally established and recorded prior to
				  July 28, 1967; or
ii. a small parcel of land sold to or exchanged between
				  adjoining property owners, provided that such a sale or exchange does not
				  create additional lots.
c. Note: For the purpose of these regulations, the
				  requirements for wetlands might be more stringent.
Sub-Manufacturer
- a person or entity
				  authorized by a licensed manufacturer to construct, or assemble individual
				  sewerage systems, or any portion thereof.
Trailer Coach
- any of the various forms of
				  structures which are equipped, or capable of being equipped, with wheels,
				  including, but not limited to, travel trailers, truck coaches or campers,
				  mobile homes, trailers, and/or tent campers, whether capable of moving under
				  its own power or not, and where a person or persons may live, work, or
				  congregate.
Trailer Park
- any lot, tract, parcel or
				  plot of land upon which more than one trailer coach is or may be located, and
				  where trailer coach spaces are rented or leased.
AUTHORITY NOTE: The
				  first source of authority for promulgation of the sanitary code is in
				  R.S.
				  36:258(B), with more
				  particular provisions found in Chapters 1 and 4 of Title 40 of the Louisiana
				  Revised Statutes. This Part is promulgated in accordance with RS. 40:4(A)(6)
				  and
				  R.S.
				  40:5(A)(2)(3)(9)(20).