(1) "Authority" means the Oregon Health Authority.
(2) "Connection" means the connection between a water system and a customer that enables the customer to receive potable water from the system.
(3) "Construction standards" means criteria for constructing or installing water system facilities.
(4) "Director" means the Director of the Oregon Health Authority.
(5) "Emergency" means a condition resulting from an unusual calamity such as a flood, an earthquake or an accidental spill of hazardous material that can endanger the quality of the water produced by a water system.
(6) "Operational requirements" means requirements that prescribe the manner in which water systems must be operated.
(7) "Permit" means a document issued to a water system that authorizes it to commence or continue to operate in the State of Oregon and lists the conditions the system must meet to continue operating.
(8) "Safe drinking water" means water that is sufficiently free from biological, chemical, radiological or physical impurities such that individuals will not be exposed to disease or harmful physiological effects.
(9) "Sanitary survey" means an on-site review of the source, facilities, equipment, operation and maintenance of a water system, including related land uses, for the purpose of evaluating the capability of that water system to produce and distribute safe drinking water.
(10) "Special master" means the person appointed by the court to administrate the water system.
(11) "Variance" means permission from the agency for a water system to provide water that does not meet water quality standards.
(12) "Water supplier" means any person, group of persons, municipality, district, corporation or entity that owns or operates a water system.
(13) "Water system" means a system for the provision of water for human consumption through pipes or other constructed conveyances.
(14) "Waterborne disease" means disease caused by chemical, physical, radiological or biological agents epidemiologically associated with infection, illness or disability that is transported to human beings by water that has been ingested or through contact as in bathing or other domestic uses. [1981 c.749 §2; 1983 c.271 §3; 1985 c.178 §4; 1997 c.249 §145; 1999 c.59 §126; 1999 c.653 §1; 2001 c.900 §196; 2009 c.595 §837]
Structure 2021 Oregon Revised Statutes
Chapter 448 - Pool Facilities; Water and Sewage Systems
Section 448.005 - Definitions for ORS 448.005 to 448.090.
Section 448.030 - Plan approval application; contents; issuance or denial; plan review fee.
Section 448.035 - Annual license required to operate; fees; expiration date.
Section 448.037 - Variance; application; fee.
Section 448.115 - Definitions for ORS 448.115 to 448.285.
Section 448.135 - Variances; notice.
Section 448.140 - Permit for operation of water system.
Section 448.145 - When permit may be issued; compliance schedule; hearing; notice.
Section 448.150 - Duties of authority; fees; rules.
Section 448.153 - State Drinking Water Advisory Committee; rules.
Section 448.155 - Technical assistance and training; public information.
Section 448.160 - Emergency plans.
Section 448.165 - Local government water service plans.
Section 448.175 - Power of Oregon Health Authority to order compliance.
Section 448.250 - Remedy when system a health hazard; special master; sale of system.
Section 448.255 - Notice of violation; content; hearing; order; appeal.
Section 448.265 - Prohibited actions; nuisance abatement.
Section 448.268 - Area of ground water concern; declaration.
Section 448.271 - Transfer of property that includes well; testing; effect.
Section 448.273 - Federal Safe Drinking Water Act administration.
Section 448.278 - Program for regulating cross-connections and backflow assemblies; fees.
Section 448.280 - Civil penalties; notice.
Section 448.285 - Penalty schedule; factors to be considered in imposing penalty; rules.
Section 448.290 - Process for imposing civil penalty.
Section 448.295 - Jurisdiction of cities over property used for system or sources.
Section 448.305 - Special ordinance authority of certain cities.
Section 448.315 - Special police to enforce ORS 448.295.
Section 448.405 - Definitions for ORS 448.405 to 448.465.
Section 448.407 - Advisory committee to commission and Oregon Health Authority.
Section 448.409 - Biennial report.
Section 448.410 - Authority and duties of Environmental Quality Commission; rules; fees.
Section 448.415 - Certification required for operators.
Section 448.420 - Special certification provisions.
Section 448.425 - Deposit and use of fees.
Section 448.430 - Certification exception.
Section 448.450 - Powers and duties of Oregon Health Authority; rules; fees.
Section 448.455 - Certification required for operators.
Section 448.460 - Special certification provisions.
Section 448.465 - Deposit of fees.
Section 448.990 - Penalties for violations of pool facility or water system requirements.
Section 448.992 - Sewage treatment works violation penalties.
Section 448.994 - Potable water treatment plant violation penalty.