12 LC 40
0178S
The
House Committee on Natural Resources and Environment offers the following
substitute to SB 110:
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
To
amend Code Section 12-5-179 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating
to permits and performance bonds for operation of public water systems, so as to
require public water suppliers utilizing a waste-water sewer system owned or
operated by a county, municipality, or local authority to transmit customer
water consumption data to such county, municipality, or local authority; to
require public water suppliers to suspend water supply to customers who have
failed to pay charges for use of the waste-water sewer system; to provide for
exemptions; to amend Code Section 12-8-41 of the Official Code of Georgia
Annotated, relating to permitting of land disposal sites receiving waste from
septic tank pumping and hauling businesses, so as to extend the date through
which such sites operating under a valid permit as of June 30, 2007, may
continue to operate; to amend Code Section 31-2A-12 of the Official Code of
Georgia Annotated, relating to regulation of land disposal sites for septic tank
waste from one business, so as to provide uniformity; to provide for an
effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Code
Section 12-5-179 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to permits
and performance bonds for operation of public water systems, is amended by
adding a new subsection to read as follows:
"(h)(1)
Any public water system within this state supplying water to customers who,
incidental to the purchase of such water, utilize a waste-water sewer system
owned or operated by a county, municipality, or local authority to dispose of or
discharge the water purchased shall furnish to such political subdivision the
amount of water consumed by each individually metered customer account during
each billing period.
(2)
Upon receiving notice from a county, municipality, or local authority described
in paragraph (1) of this subsection that a customer has failed to timely pay any
charges for the use of the waste-water sewer system, the water supplier shall,
within five business days of such notice, suspend water supply to that customer.
The water supply to such customer shall remain suspended until such political
subdivision notifies the water supplier to resume water service. The water
supplier shall be authorized to charge a reasonable fee to the customer for the
cost of suspension or resumption of water service.
(3)
Nothing in this subsection shall abrogate the provisions of Code Section
36-60-17.
(4)
The requirements of this subsection shall not apply to submetered multifamily,
multi-industrial, or multicommercial
properties."
SECTION
2.
Code
Section 12-8-41 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to
permitting of land disposal sites receiving waste from septic tank pumping and
hauling businesses, is amended as follows:
"12-8-41.
The
department shall provide by rule or regulation for the regulation and permitting
of any land disposal site that receives septic tank waste from any one or more
septic tank pumping and hauling businesses. Any new permit issued for such type
of site on or after July 1, 2007, shall be issued by the department under this
Code section. Any such type of site that as of June 30, 2007, operated under a
valid permit issued on or before such date by the Department of Human Resources
(now known as the Department of Public Health for these purposes) under Code
Section 31-2A-12 may continue to operate under such Code section until July 1,
2012
2014,
but a permit shall be obtained from the department under this Code section prior
to such date in order to continue such operation thereafter."
SECTION
3.
Code
Section 31-2A-12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to
regulation of land disposal sites for septic tank waste from one business, is
amended as follows:
"31-2A-12.
Until
July 1,
2012
2014,
the department shall provide by rule or regulation for the regulation of any
land disposal site that receives septic tank waste from only one septic tank
pumping and hauling business and which as of June 30, 2007, operated under a
valid permit for such activity as issued by the department (previously known as
the Department of Human Resources for these purposes) under this Code section.
No new permit shall be issued by the department under this Code section for such
type of site on or after July 1, 2007, but instead any new permit issued for
such type of site on or after such date shall be issued by the Department of
Natural Resources under Code Section 12-8-41. This Code section shall stand
repealed on July 1,
2012
2014."
SECTION
4.
This
Act shall become effective upon its approval by the Governor or upon its
becoming law without such approval.
SECTION
5.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.