§ 42-44.1-2 — § 42-44.1-2. Definitions.

Rhode Island § 42-44.1-2

• Jurisdiction: Rhode Island
• Title 42: State Affairs and Government
• Ch. 42-44.1: Sewage and Water Supply Failure Fund

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§ 42-44.1-2. Definitions.

The following words and terms, unless the context clearly indicates a different meaning, have the following meanings:

(1) "Affected residence� refers to a residence that has an ISDS failure or a contaminated domestic water supply.

(2) "Contaminated domestic water supply� refers to the primary source of drinking and household water for a residence that fails to meet generally accepted drinking water standards, or that the department of health has certified as undrinkable.

(3) "Domestic individual sewage disposal system� ("ISDS�) refers to an existing disposal system that services an owner-occupied, single-family residence.

(4) "Failed domestic individual disposal system� refers to an ISDS system that has been determined to have failed by the land resources section of the department of environmental management, or a system that has required pumping out more than four (4) times in a one-year period.

(5) "Multiple domestic individual sewage disposal system failure� refers to a number of failed ISDS systems in close proximity to one another.

Legislative History

P.L. 1984, ch. 420, § 1.