Sec.19-13-B103f. Non-discharging sewage disposal systems

(a) All non-discharging sewage disposal systems shall be designed, installed and operated in accordance with the Technical Standards and the requirements of this section, unless an exception is granted by the Commissioner upon a determination that system shall provide for the proper and complete disposal and treatment of toilet wastes or gray water.

(b) Composting toilets. (1) The local director of health may approve the use of a large capacity composting toilet or a heat-assisted composting toilet for replacing an existing privy or failing subsurface sewage disposal system, or for any single-family residential building where application is made by the owner and occupant, and the lot on which the building will be located is tested by the local director of health and found suitable for a subsurface sewage disposal system meeting all the requirements of Section 19-13-B103d of these regulations.

(2) All wastes removed from composting toilets shall be disposed of by burial or other methods approved by the local director of health.

(c) Incineration toilets. The local director of health may approve the use of incineration toilets for non-residential buildings or for existing single-family residential dwelings for the purpose of abating existing sewage problems or replacing the existing non-water carriage toilets.

(d) Chemical flush toilets and chemical privies. (1) The local director of health may approve chemical flush toilets or chemical privies for nonresidential use where they are located outside of buildings used for human habitation. Chemical flush toilets or chemical privies located inside human habitations shall be approved by the Commissioner of Health Services and the local director of health.

(2) Liquid waste from chemical flush toilets or chemical privies shall be disposed of in a location and manner approved by the local director of health. Such liquid shall not be disposed of on a public water supply watershed or within five hundred feet of any water supply well unless approved by the Commissioner of Health Services.

(e) Dry Vault Privies. (1) The local director of health may approve dry vault privies for nonresidential use where they are located outside of buildings used as human habitation.

(2) Wastes removed from dry privy vaults shall be disposed of by burial or other methods approved by the local director of health.

(Effective August 16, 1982)