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<section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="12-101" title_number="12" title_name="Waterworks and Waste Systems Operators" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Definitions; General Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this title the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Board” means the State Board of Waterworks and Waste Systems Operators.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Certificate” means, unless the context requires otherwise, a certificate of certification as an operator, industrial operator, or superintendent, issued by the Board.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Certificate” includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A certificate; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A temporary certificate, as limited by § 12–305 of this title.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Certified industrial operator” means, unless the context requires otherwise, an industrial operator who is certified by the Board.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Certified operator” means, unless the context requires otherwise, an operator who is certified by the Board.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Certified superintendent” means, unless the context requires otherwise, a superintendent who is certified by the Board.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Industrial operator” means an individual who operates the controls or maintains the logs of an industrial wastewater works.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Industrial operator” does not include a superintendent.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Industrial wastewater works” means a facility used to collect, store, pump, treat, or discharge any waste substance that results from:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A manufacturing process;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A business process; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The development of a natural resource.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Operator” means an individual who participates in the operation of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A waterworks, including the control of the flow, processing, and distribution of water; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A wastewater works, including the collection, control of flow, processing, and discharge of wastewater and effluent.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Operator” does not include a superintendent.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>“Responsible charge” means responsibility for the operation and performance of all or any part of a waterworks, wastewater works, or industrial wastewater works.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="k">
    <text>“Superintendent” means an individual who is designated by any employing or appointing person, county, municipality, sanitary district, or this State as the individual in responsible charge of a waterworks, wastewater works, or industrial wastewater works.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="l">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Wastewater works” means a facility used to collect, store, pump, treat, or discharge any liquid or waterborne waste.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Wastewater works” does not include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A facility that is used only by a private residence;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A facility that uses a septic tank or subsoil absorption; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>An industrial wastewater works.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="m">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Waterworks” means a facility used to collect, store, pump, treat, or distribute water for human consumption.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Waterworks” does not include a facility that is used only by a private residence.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
