Effective - 28 Aug 1991
256.605. Well installation board established — membership — terms — qualifications. — 1. The "Well Installation Board" is hereby established which shall be composed of nine members. Appointment to the board shall be made without regard to race, creed, sex, religion, or national origin of the appointees. Each member shall be a resident of the state and be conversant in well drilling, completion, and plugging methods and techniques.
2. Four members of the board shall hold valid permits under sections 256.600 to 256.640. Two of these shall hold permits as well installation contractors, one shall hold a permit as a heat pump installation contractor and as a well installation contractor and one shall hold a permit as a monitoring well installation contractor and as a well installation contractor. Four shall be public members, one of these shall be a public water supply district user and one shall be a private well user. The director of the department or his designee shall serve as a member of the board. Board members shall serve four-year terms except that two of the first appointed public members and two of the first appointed members holding valid permits shall be appointed to two-year terms. Members shall be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate and each shall serve until his successor is duly appointed and qualified. Vacancies shall be filled by appointment for the unexpired term. Any member who fails to attend at least seventy-five percent of the regular board meetings in any one year, at the discretion of the board, shall be deemed to have resigned. Members shall be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties while in attendance at board meetings out of appropriations made for that purpose.
3. A member shall not be employed by or own an interest in a company, firm, or business association which employs another member of the board or in which another member owns an interest, if the company, firm, or business association is engaged in any phase of the well drilling, pump installation, heat pump or monitoring well business.
4. Except for industry members, no member shall receive, or shall have received during the previous two years, income derived directly or indirectly from any permittee or applicant under sections 256.600 to 256.640.
5. The board shall meet on a quarterly basis, and special meetings may be called when deemed necessary by the division. A majority of the board is a quorum for conducting business. The board shall elect a chairman by a majority vote at the first meeting each year.
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(L. 1991 S.B. 221)
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XVI - Conservation, Resources and Development
Chapter 256 - Geology, Water Resources and Geodetic Survey
Section 256.010 - State geologist — appointment — duties.
Section 256.030 - Governor, state geologist — powers.
Section 256.040 - Oath of office — private consulting prohibited.
Section 256.050 - State geologist and assistants — duties.
Section 256.060 - Survey of water resources.
Section 256.070 - Maintenance of cabinet collection.
Section 256.080 - Duty of assistants.
Section 256.100 - Additional technical work — authorization.
Section 256.110 - Cooperation with federal agencies.
Section 256.120 - Geodetic surveyors may enter on lands.
Section 256.130 - Damages — hearings — procedure.
Section 256.140 - Costs, how adjusted.
Section 256.155 - Interstate earthquake emergency compact.
Section 256.170 - Definitions.
Section 256.175 - High seismic risk area data — duties of department.
Section 256.200 - Duties and powers of commission.
Section 256.230 - Bonds of members and employees.
Section 256.250 - Public agencies to cooperate with commission.
Section 256.260 - Reports of commission.
Section 256.290 - Water development fund created, purposes — funds not to revert.
Section 256.300 - Commission may contract with federal agencies.
Section 256.310 - Duties of commission.
Section 256.320 - Basis of payment — debt to be lien on property, how collected.
Section 256.330 - Commission to report to legislature, contents.
Section 256.340 - Legislature may appropriate from fund, purposes.
Section 256.350 - Law not to affect existing contracts.
Section 256.360 - Commission to protect public interest in federal reservoirs.
Section 256.400 - Definitions.
Section 256.420 - Inspection by state geologist — court order if permission refused.
Section 256.435 - Citation of law.
Section 256.437 - Definitions.
Section 256.438 - Fund created, use of moneys--rulemaking authority.
Section 256.447 - Rulemaking authority.
Section 256.450 - Citation of law.
Section 256.453 - Definitions.
Section 256.465 - Fund, established — fees to be set by board, limit.
Section 256.471 - Exempt activities.
Section 256.474 - Failure to abide by requirements, board may reprimand.
Section 256.477 - Prohibited activities, penalties — board to revoke certificate, when.
Section 256.600 - Title of law.
Section 256.603 - Definitions.
Section 256.605 - Well installation board established — membership — terms — qualifications.
Section 256.606 - Rules and regulations — applicants' qualifications.
Section 256.607 - Well installation contractor, permit — heat pump installation contractor, permit.
Section 256.611 - Application, qualifications.
Section 256.613 - Written examinations.
Section 256.616 - Performance bond or letter of credit may be required — conditions.
Section 256.617 - Drilling rigs, how marked — rig permits.
Section 256.620 - Certain wells exempted from regulation.
Section 256.621 - Surface water tracing, registration required — renewal — documentation required.
Section 256.623 - Fees — appeals process for disciplinary action.
Section 256.626 - Promulgation of rules and regulations — heat pump coolants, preference.
Section 256.630 - Violations of the law, suspension, revocation — procedure, appeals.
Section 256.633 - Injunctions — attorney general to represent division.
Section 256.635 - Audit of division — groundwater protection fund, purpose.
Section 256.637 - Violations of law, civil and criminal penalties.
Section 256.640 - Rules, procedure.
Section 256.641 - Definitions.
Section 256.660 - Disincorporation of district, procedure.
Section 256.705 - Fund created, use of moneys.
Section 256.710 - Industrial minerals advisory council created, members, duties, terms, vacancies.