701.025. Definitions.

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

Definitions.

701.025. As used in sections 701.025 to 701.059, unless the contextotherwise requires, the following terms mean:

(1) "Department", the department of health and senior services of thestate of Missouri;

(2) "Director", the director of the department of health and seniorservices or the designee of the director;

(3) "Existing system", an on-site sewage disposal system in operationprior to September 1, 1995;

(4) "Human excreta", undigested food and by-products of metabolism whichare passed out of the human body;

(5) "Imminent health hazard", a condition which is likely to cause animmediate threat to life or a serious risk to the health, safety, and welfareof the public if immediate action is not taken;

(6) "Major modification" or "major repair", the redesigning andalteration of an on-site sewage system by relocation of the system or a partof the system, replacement of the septic tank or construction of a newabsorption field;

(7) "Nuisance", sewage, human excreta or other human organic wastedischarged or exposed on the owner's land or any other land from an on-sitesewage disposal system in a manner that makes it a potential instrument ormedium for the breeding of flies and mosquitoes, the production of odors, orthe transmission of disease to or between a person or persons, or whichcontaminates surface waters* or groundwater;

(8) "On-site sewage disposal system", any system handling or treatmentfacility receiving domestic sewage which discharges into a subsurface soilabsorption system and discharges less than three thousand gallons per day;

(9) "On-site sewage disposal system contractor", any person whoconstructs, alters, repairs, or extends an on-site sewage disposal system onbehalf of, or under contract with, the property owner;

(10) "Person", any individual, group of individuals, association, trust,partnership, corporation, person doing business under an assumed name, thestate of Missouri or any department thereof, or any political subdivision ofthis state;

(11) "Property owner", the person in whose name legal title to the realestate is recorded;

(12) "Sewage" or "domestic sewage", human excreta and wastewater,including bath and toilet waste, residential laundry waste, residentialkitchen waste and other similar waste from household or establishmentappurtenances. Sewage and domestic sewage waste are further categorized as:

(a) "Blackwater", waste carried off by toilets, urinals and kitchendrains;

(b) "Graywater", all domestic waste not covered in paragraph (a) of thissubdivision, including bath, lavatory, laundry and sink waste;

(13) "Subdivision", land divided or proposed to be divided forpredominantly residential purposes into such parcels as required by localordinances, or in the absence of local ordinances, "subdivision" means anyland which is divided or proposed to be divided by a common owner or ownersinto three or more lots or parcels, any of which contains less than threeacres, or into platted or unplatted units, any of which contains less thanthree acres, as a part of a uniform plan of development;

(14) "Subsurface soil absorption system", a system for the finalrenovation of the sewage tank effluent and return of the renovated wastewaterto the hydrologic cycle, including the lateral lines, the perforated pipes,the rock material and the absorption trenches. Included within the scope ofthis definition are: sewage tank absorption systems, privies, chemicaltoilets, single-family lagoons and other similar systems; except that asubsurface sewage disposal system does not include a sewage system regulatedpursuant to chapter 644, RSMo;

(15) "Waste", sewage, human excreta or domestic sewage.