Public Acts Promulgated During the 2007
Regular and Special Sessions and Signed by the Governor
Drinking Water, Ground Water, and Aquifer Protection
To streamline the application process for noncommunity public water supplies and to better link this application process with the drinking water supply planning process.
Two
new provisions within the act: Section 5 addresses maintaining service for
private wells serving another household with a different owner and Section 7 requires
notification to abutting properties when applying for a waiver to the separation
distance of a subsurface sewage disposal system to a private well.
Food Protection
To make technical and other revisions to laws governing the Department of Public Health.
Section
59 beginning on page60 allows farmers’ markets to sell fresh produce to food
service establishments with an accompanying invoice of the purchase as an
approved source.
Public Act No. 07-74 An Act Concerning Identification of Harvested Shellfish.
To allow for shellfish harvest location confidentiality by requiring the Department of Agriculture to issue a shellfish lot harvest location code key to the shellfish harvester assigned to such lot.
Section
2 allows a municipality to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the
Department of Agriculture to authorize the health department to collect sea
water samples for the purpose of shellfish harvest water classification.
Lead Poisoning Prevention
See Sections 47
through 60 beginning on page 77.Several significant changes to statutes related
to lead poisoning prevention were made.
Per Capita Funding
See Sections 61
through 62 beginning on page 89. Per capita funding to local health was
increased by this act.
Pesticides
Public Act No. 07-168 An Act Banning Pesticide Use On School Grounds.
To prohibit the application of lawn care pesticides on the grounds of any public or private school with students in grade eight or lower.
The act does not entirely ban the use of pesticides but does require an
integrated pest management plan. DEP has primary enforcement.
Public Health Preparedness
To include the evacuation of pets and service animals in state and local emergency plans of operation.
Registered Sanitarian
To make technical and other revisions to laws governing the Department of Public Health.
See Section 39
beginning on page 43. This section addresses disciplinary action for practices
under the jurisdiction of the Department of Public Health.
Subsurface Sewage Disposal Systems
Public Act No. 07-231 An Act Concerning the Approval of Small Alternative On-Site Sewage Treatment Systems.
To establish and define alternative on-site sewage treatment systems and to transfer permitting jurisdiction for such systems from the Commissioner of Environmental Protection to the Commissioner of Public Health.
This
act was actually repealed and substituted by Public Act No. 07-1.
See
Section 155 beginning on page 173. This is where 07-231 was substituted and the
funding for implementing the act became evanescent.
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