Virginia Administrative Code › Title 18 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING › Agency 160 - BOARD FOR WATERWORKS AND WASTEWATER WORKS OPERATORS AND ONSITE SEWAGE SYSTEM PROFESSIONALS › Chapter 30 - WATERWORKS AND WASTEWATER WORKS OPERATORS LICENSING REGULATIONS › Part I - Definitions › Section 18VAC160-30-10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
A. Section
				  54.1-2300 of the Code of Virginia provides definitions of the following terms
				  and phrases as used in this chapter:
"Board"
"Onsite sewage system"
"Operator"
"Owner"
"Wastewater works"
"Waterworks"
B. The following words, terms, and phrases
				  when used in this chapter shall have the following meanings unless the context
				  clearly indicates otherwise:
"Applicant" means an individual who submits an application
					 with the appropriate fee and other required documentation.
"Application" means a completed, board-prescribed form
					 submitted with the appropriate fee and other required documentation.
"Category" means a profession under the board's purview,
					 which includes waterworks and wastewater works as applicable to the licensure
					 of waterworks and wastewater works operators.
"Classification" means the division within each category of
					 license as it relates to the classified facility. Class 1 represents the
					 highest classification for each category of license.
"Contact hour" means 50 minutes of participation in a
					 structured training activity.
"Department" means the Virginia Department of Professional
					 and Occupational Regulation.
"DEQ" means the Virginia Department of Environmental
					 Quality.
"Direct supervision" means being immediately available and
					 fully responsible for the provision of waterworks and wastewater works
					 operation regulated pursuant to Chapter 23 (§ 54.1-2300 et seq.) of Title
					 54.1 of the Code of Virginia and this chapter.
"Direct supervisor" means a licensed waterworks or
					 wastewater works operator who assumes the responsibility of direct
					 supervision.
"Licensee" means an individual holding a valid license
					 issued by the board.
"Licensure" means a method of regulation whereby the
					 Commonwealth, through the issuance of a license, authorizes a person possessing
					 the character and minimum skills to engage in the practice of a profession or
					 occupation that is unlawful to practice without such license.
"Maintenance" or "maintain" means performing adjustments to
					 equipment and controls and in-kind replacement of normal wear and tear parts
					 such as light bulbs, fuses, filters, pumps, motors, or other like components.
					 Maintenance includes pumping the tanks or cleaning the building sewer on a
					 periodic basis.
"Operate" means the act of (i) placing into or taking out
					 of service a unit process or unit processes or (ii) making or causing
					 adjustments in the operation of a unit process at a waterworks or wastewater
					 works.
"Renewal" means the process and requirements for
					 periodically approving the continuance of a license.
"Training credit" means a unit of board-approved training
					 or formal education completed by an individual that may be used to substitute
					 for experience when applying for a license.
"Treatment works" means any device or system used in the
					 storage, treatment, disposal, or reclamation of sewage or combinations of
					 sewage and industrial wastes including pumping power and other equipment and
					 appurtenances, septic tanks, and any works, including land, that are or will be
					 (i) an integral part of the treatment processes or (ii) used for ultimate
					 disposal or residues or effluent resulting from such treatment.
"VDH" means the Virginia Department of
					 Health.
Statutory Authority: §§ 54.1-201 and 54.1-2301
						of the Code of Virginia.