Oklahoma § 59-1102 - Definitions

§ 59-1102. Definitions

A. As used in the Waterworks and Wastewater Works Operator

Certification Act:

1. "Board" means the Environmental Quality Board of the State

of Oklahoma;

2. "Certificate" means a certificate of competency issued as

provided for herein;

3. "Department" means the Oklahoma Department of Environmental

Quality;

4. "Executive Director" means the Executive Director of the

Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality;

5. "Helper" means any person who performs or assists in the

performance of work which may affect the quality of either water or

wastewater;

6. "Operator" means any person who is at any time responsible

for the operation of a wastewater works or waterworks or associated

laboratories, in part or in whole. Operator shall not ordinarily

apply to an official exercising official general administrative

supervision but shall include any person who can, through a direct

act or command, affect the quality of the water or wastewater;

7. "Person" means and includes individuals, firms,

partnerships, associations, and corporations; and also means and

includes the State of Oklahoma, counties, districts, municipalities,

and all subdivisions, districts, officers, agencies, departments,

institutions, or instrumentalities of any thereof, whether

governmental or proprietary;

8. "Wastewater works" means wastewater treatment systems and

facilities used in the collection, transmission, storage, pumping,

treatment or disposal of liquid or waterborne wastes, except as

provided in subsection B of this section; and

9. "Waterworks" means facilities used in the procurement,

treatment, storage, pumping or distribution of water for human

consumption, except as provided in subsection B of this section.

B. The words "waterworks", or "wastewater works" shall not

include:

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 59. Professions and Occupations

1. Any waterworks used exclusively by a private residence or a

private business or industry, except when a waterworks has fifteen

or more permanent or temporary service connections available for

residential use, or regularly serves twenty-five or more of the same

individuals at least six (6) months in a year;

2. Any nonindustrial wastewater works treatment system which

has an average flow of five thousand (5,000) gallons per day or

less;

3. Any industrial wastewater works; and

4. Such classes of systems, which because of their size, type

of treatment, or the nature of wastes involved, the Board shall find

do not require general supervision by a certified operator in order

to safeguard life, health, property, or the water supplies or

streams of this state. Such classes shall be fixed by rules

promulgated by the Board.

Added by Laws 1959, p. 270, § 2. Amended by Laws 1965, c. 88, § 1,

emerg. eff. May 5, 1965; Laws 1978, c. 166, § 1, eff. July 1, 1978;

Laws 1993, c. 145, § 276, eff. July 1, 1993; Laws 1993, c. 324, §

50, eff. July 1, 1993; Laws 2005, c. 138, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2005.