Kitsap County Board of Health Ordinance 2008A-01 - Kitsap Public ...

Kitsap County Board of Health Ordinance 2008-01, Amended June 7, 2011
Onsite Sewage System and General Sewage Sanitation Regulations
SECTION 1:
AUTHORITY, PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES
A. These regulations are promulgated under the authority of Chapters 70.05, 70.118,
70.118A, and 70.46 of the Revised Code of Washington (RCW), and Chapter 246-
272A of the Washington Administrative Code (WAC).
B. The purpose of these regulations is to protect, preserve, promote and improve
public health and safety by:
1. Establishing minimum standards of sanitation for sewage;
2. Eliminating or minimizing the potential for public exposure to sewage; and
3. Eliminating or minimizing the adverse effects of sewage discharges to the
ground, surface water or ground water; back-ups of sewage into structures;
or inadequate treatment and control of sewage.
C. This ordinance regulates:
1. The location, design, installation, operation, maintenance, monitoring, and
oversight of onsite sewage systems (i.e., septic systems) designed or
permitted to handle up to 3,500 gallons per day; and
2. The control and abatement of sewage-related nuisances detrimental to public
health.
D. These regulations are intended to coordinate with other applicable state and local
regulations for sewage treatment, conveyance, and control; water supply; solid
waste; food handling; building; land use/land use planning; and critical areas.
E. It is the specific intent of this ordinance to place the obligation for complying
with these regulations upon property owners, and/or their authorized agents or
occupants of the property, where sewage originates, and/or sewage producers,
sewage contractors, or other persons as applicable under these regulations.
F. It is the intent of this ordinance to provide for fair, equal, and reasonable
treatment of all persons that are subject to these regulations, and to allow for
Health Officer discretion in the application of these regulations as they deem
necessary to protect public health. Nothing in these regulations is intended to
abridge or alter the rights of action by the state, or by persons that exist in
equality, common law, or other statutes, to abate pollution or a nuisance.
G. No provision or term of this ordinance is intended to impose any duty
whatsoever upon the Health Officer or Health District, or any of its officers or
employees, for whom the implementation or enforcement of these regulations
shall be discretionary and not mandatory.
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