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IN SB0092
Bill
Status
1/5/2016
Primary Sponsor
Brent Steele
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AI Summary
Senate Bill 92 Summary
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Adds new section IC 16-41-25-5 to establish definitions and restrictions for residential onsite sewage systems in Indiana.
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Defines "subsurface trench onsite sewage system" as a system with a septic tank and subsurface soil absorption system, explicitly excluding elevated mound systems that require pumping or siphoning.
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Prohibits local health officers or departments from requiring residential onsite sewage systems that differ in design and are significantly more expensive than a subsurface trench system when a property meets state department minimum site suitability conditions.
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Allows either state department of health officers/employees or registered professional soil scientists to make the determination that a property meets minimum site suitability conditions.
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Takes effect January 1, 2016, retroactively, with an emergency declaration.
Legislative Description
Subsurface trench onsite sewage systems. Provides that if: (1) the administrative rules of the state department of health set forth minimum site suitability conditions under which a subsurface trench onsite sewage system may be constructed on a property; and (2) an officer or employee of the state department of health or a registered professional soil scientist determines that a property meets the minimum site suitability conditions for the construction of a subsurface trench onsite sewage system; the local health officer or local health department is prohibited from requiring the construction on the property of a residential onsite sewage system that
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Environmental Affairs
1/5/2016