701.031. Disposal of sewage, who, how, exception. - Missouri Statutes

Disposal of sewage, who, how, exception.

701.031. Property owners of all buildings where people live, work orassemble shall provide for the sanitary disposal of all domestic sewage.Except as provided in this section, sewage and waste from such buildings shallbe disposed of by discharging into a sewer system regulated pursuant tochapter 644, RSMo, or shall be disposed of by discharging into an on-sitesewage disposal system operated as defined by rules promulgated pursuant tosections 701.025 to 701.059. Any person installing on-site sewage disposalsystems shall be registered to do so by the department of health and seniorservices. The owner of a single-family residence lot consisting of threeacres or more, or the owner of a residential lot consisting of ten acres ormore with no single-family residence on-site sewage disposal system locatedwithin three hundred sixty feet of any other on-site sewage disposal systemand no more than one single-family residence per each ten acres in theaggregate, except lots adjacent to lakes operated by the Corps of Engineers orby a public utility, shall be excluded from the provisions of sections 701.025to 701.059 and the rules promulgated pursuant to sections 701.025 to 701.059,including provisions relating to the construction, operation, majormodification and major repair of on-site disposal systems, when all points ofthe system are located in excess of ten feet from any adjoining property lineand no effluent enters an adjoining property, contaminates surface waters orgroundwater or creates a nuisance as determined by a readily availablescientific method. Except as provided in this section, any construction,operation, major modification or major repair of an on-site sewage disposalsystem shall be in accordance with rules promulgated pursuant to sections701.025 to 701.059, regardless of when the system was originally constructed.The provisions of subdivision (2) of subsection 1 of section 701.043 shall notapply to lots located in subdivisions under the jurisdiction of the departmentof natural resources which are required by a consent decree, in effect on orbefore May 15, 1984, to have class 1, National Sanitation Federation (NSF)aerated sewage disposal systems.

(L. 1986 H.B. 1101 § 4, A.L. 1994 S.B. 446, A.L. 1999 H.B. 216, A.L. 2004 H.B. 1433, A.L. 2005 H.B. 617)

*This section was contained in H.B. 617, 2005, but no changes were made.