Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 51 - PUBLIC HEALTH-SANITARY CODE › Part XIII - Sewage Disposal › Chapter 9 - Sewage Hauling › Section XIII-901 - General Requirements [formerly paragraph 13:019-1]

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. A person shall not engage in the business
				or practice of hauling the contents of septic tanks, cesspools, vaults, or
				similar facilities without first obtaining a license from the state health
				officer. Applications for a license to haul sewage may be obtained from the
				nearest parish health unit. Applications must be sent to the Sanitarian Program
				Administrator-Individual Sewage, Sanitarian Services Section. All licenses
				shall be issued by this office and shall be valid throughout the
				state.
B. [Formerly paragraph
				13:019-2] All licenses expire on June 30 of each new year. Applications for
				renewal must be received no later than May 1 of each year in order to insure
				timely renewal. Initial applications received between July 1 and March 30 will
				receive a license for that fiscal year (July 1 through June 30); those initial
				applications received after March 30 will receive a license for the remainder
				of that fiscal year in addition to the next fiscal year.
C. [Formerly paragraph 13:019-3] Upon
				determination by the state health officer of substantial non-compliance with
				the requirements of this code with respect to the hauling and/or disposing of
				the contents of septic tanks, cesspools, vaults, or similar facilities, (not
				including grease traps), written notice, in compliance with
				R.S. 49:961,
				shall be given to the licensee having made said violations that he shall,
				within 15 working days, present to the notifying office any and all evidence to
				show compliance with the requirements for retention of the license. In the
				absence of such evidence, the licensee shall be further notified that his
				license has been temporarily suspended pending a hearing in the matter to
				consider whether sufficient grounds for revocation of the license exist. The
				licensee shall be notified, in writing, of the date of the hearing within seven
				working days from the date of the notice of suspension. The date for such
				hearing shall be within 45 working days of the notice of suspension.
D. [Formerly paragraph 13:019-4] Upon
				revocation of a license, a hauler shall not be eligible to reapply for the same
				license for a period of two years from the date of revocation for
				cause.
E. [Formerly paragraph
				13:019-5] Disposal of the contents of septic tanks, cesspools, vaults, or
				similar facilities shall be made in accordance with the arrangements, approved
				in the permit, for disposal at an approved sewage treatment facility. As a
				prerequisite to obtaining a license, evidence for such arrangements, including
				copies of any agreements with cooperating sewage treatment facilities, shall be
				submitted. The disposal of the contents of septic tanks, cesspools, vaults, or
				similar facilities into ditches, canals, rivers, lakes, pits, or other surface
				water courses is prohibited.
F.
				[Formerly paragraph 13:019-6] No person shall convey or cause to be conveyed
				through the streets, roads, or public waterways any contents from a septic
				tank, vault, cesspool, or privy, except in tight enclosed containers, so as not
				to be offensive to smell or injurious to health.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
				  Promulgated in accordance with
				  R.S.
				  40:4(A)(6) and
				  R.S.
				  40:5(9)(20).