Bill Text: FL H0017 | 2010 | 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Public Health
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-11-16 - Filed [H0017 Detail]
Download: Florida-2010-H0017-Introduced.html
| HB 17A |
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| 2 | An act relating to public health; amending s. 381.0065, |
| 3 | F.S.; delaying the implementation date of provisions |
| 4 | requiring the Department of Health to administer an onsite |
| 5 | sewage treatment and disposal system evaluation program; |
| 6 | providing an effective date. |
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| 8 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 10 | Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (5) of section |
| 11 | 381.0065, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: |
| 12 | 381.0065 Onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems; |
| 13 | regulation.- |
| 14 | (5) EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT.- |
| 15 | (a) Beginning July |
| 16 | administer an onsite sewage treatment and disposal system |
| 17 | evaluation program for the purpose of assessing the fundamental |
| 18 | operational condition of systems and identifying any failures |
| 19 | within the systems. The department shall adopt rules |
| 20 | implementing the program standards, procedures, and |
| 21 | requirements, including, but not limited to, a schedule for a 5- |
| 22 | year evaluation cycle, requirements for the pump-out of a system |
| 23 | or repair of a failing system, enforcement procedures for |
| 24 | failure of a system owner to obtain an evaluation of the system, |
| 25 | and failure of a contractor to timely submit evaluation results |
| 26 | to the department and the system owner. The department shall |
| 27 | ensure statewide implementation of the evaluation and assessment |
| 28 | program by January 1, 2016. |
| 29 | Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law. |
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