Kansas Statutes 65-167. Sewage discharge; penalties for willful or negligent discharge of sewage without permit or in violation of terms of permit
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 65-167
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation or other association of persons. See Kansas Statutes 65-171j
- Secretary: means the secretary of health and environment. See Kansas Statutes 65-1,114
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
- Waters of the state: means all streams and springs, and all bodies of surface and subsurface waters within the boundaries of the state;
(b) "discharge" means, when used without qualification, the causing or permitting of sewage to enter, either directly or indirectly, into waters of the state;
(c) "indirect discharge" means the introduction of pollutants into a publicly owned treatment works from any nondomestic source; and
(d) "direct discharge" means the discharge of sewage into waters of the state. See Kansas Statutes 65-161
Upon conviction, the penalty for the willful or negligent discharge of sewage into or from the sewer system of any municipality, township, county or legally constituted sewer district by the public authorities having, by law, charge thereof or by any person, company, corporation, institution, municipality or federal agency, into any of the waters of the state without a permit, as required by this act, or in violation of any term or condition of a permit issued by the secretary of health and environment, or in violation of any requirements made pursuant to Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-164, 65-165 or 65-166, and amendments thereto, shall be not less than $2,500 and not more than $25,000, and a further penalty of not more than $25,000 per day for each day the offense is maintained. The penalty for the discharge of sewage into or from any sewage system into any waters of the state without filing a report, in any case in which a report is required by this act to be filed shall be not less than $1,000 and not more than $10,000 per day for each day the offense is maintained.