Section 323.1252. Definitions.

(1) "Board" means the board of examiners established by the commission.

(2)    "Certificate" means a document issued by the commission at testing that a person is properly qualified to operate or supervise the operation of certain designated waste treatment or control facilities.

(3)    "Owner" means an industrial or commercial entity which discharges liquid wastes into any surface or ground waters or underground or on the ground other than through a public sanitary sewer.

(4)   "Public sanitary sewer" means an enclosed pipe or conduit intended to carry wastewater from homes, businesses, and industries and is owned, operated, and maintained by a city, village, township, county, authority, or other municipal entity.

(5)   "Waste treatment or control facilities" means any disposal system, including disposal wells, or any treatment works, equipment, machinery, or installation constructed,

used, or placed in operation for the purpose of reducing or eliminating water pollution caused by industrial waste or any device or equipment for retaining, metering, regulating, or monitoring a wastewater discharge, except that this rule shall not apply to water, gas, or other material which is injected into a well to facilitate production of oil or gas, or water derived in association with oil or gas production and disposed of in a well, if the well is used either to facilitate production or for disposal purposes and is under permit by the state supervisor of wells.

History: 1979 AC.