ENROLLED HOUSE
BILL NO. 1575	By:	Martin (Scott) of the House

				and

		Paddack and Fields of the Senate

An Act relating to municipal wastewater; defining term; stating application of certain definition of gray water; providing for codification; and providing an effective date.

SUBJECT:  Municipal wastewater

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:

SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 2-6-107 of Title 27A, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

A.  "Gray water" means untreated household wastewater that has not come in contact with toilet waste and includes wastewater from bathtubs, showers, washbasins, clothes washing machines and laundry tubs and untreated municipal wastewater limited to wastewater captured from municipal splash pads and water used by fire departments for cleaning equipment and vehicles.  Gray water shall not include wastewater from kitchen sinks, kitchen dishwashers or laundry water from the washing of material soiled with human excreta, such as diapers.

B.  The definition of gray water in subsection A of this section shall apply only in municipalities enacting ordinances regulating the use of gray water within the limits of their municipal boundaries.

SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2011.
Passed the House of Representatives the 4th day of May, 2011.

	
Presiding Officer of the House of
	Representatives

Passed the Senate the 20th day of April, 2011.

	
Presiding Officer of the Senate