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91_HB2264
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1 AN ACT to amend the Private Sewage Disposal Licensing Act
2 by changing Section 4.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Private Sewage Disposal Licensing Act is
6 amended by changing Section 4 as follows:
7 (225 ILCS 225/4) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 116.304)
8 Sec. 4. (a) After January 1, 1974, no person or private
9 sewage disposal system contractor may construct, install,
10 modify, repair, maintain, or service a private sewage
11 disposal system or transport and dispose of waste removed
12 therefrom, in such a manner that does not comply with the
13 requirements of this Act and the private sewage disposal code
14 promulgated hereunder by the Department. A person who owns
15 and occupies a single family dwelling and who constructs,
16 installs, maintains, services or cleans the private sewage
17 disposal system which serves his single family residence
18 shall not be required to be licensed under this Act, however,
19 such person shall comply with all other provisions of this
20 Act and the private sewage disposal code promulgated
21 hereunder by the Department.
22 Any person who constructs, installs, repairs, modifies,
23 or maintains a private sewage disposal system, other than a
24 system which serves his own single family residence, shall be
25 licensed by the Department as a Private Sewage System
26 Installation Contractor and any person who cleans or pumps
27 waste from a private sewage disposal system, other than a
28 system which serves his own single family residence, or hauls
29 or disposes of wastes removed therefrom shall be licensed by
30 the Department as a Private Sewage Disposal System Pumping
31 Contractor in accordance with this Act.
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1 (b) No new private sewage disposal system shall be
2 installed by any person until drawings, specifications and
3 other information requested by the Department are submitted
4 to and reviewed by the Department and found to comply with
5 the private sewage disposal code, and until approval for the
6 installation of such system is issued by the Department. The
7 Department shall either approve or deny the installation of
8 the new system, in writing, within 90 days after the drawings
9 and specifications are submitted.
10 (c) The licensing requirements of this Act shall not
11 apply to any person who cleans or pumps, hauls or disposes of
12 waste from chemical toilets located in an underground coal
13 mine. This waste shall be (i) transported to and disposed of
14 at a sewage treatment facility permitted by the Illinois
15 Environmental Protection Agency and located on the mine
16 property, or (ii) stored on-site in a sanitary manner pending
17 removal and subsequent disposal by a licensed private sewage
18 disposal pumping contractor.
19 (Source: P.A. 86-1195.)