Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 4807-C

  • in writing: include printing and other modes of making legible words. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
  • Subsurface waste disposal: means any system for disposing of wastes or waste waters on or beneath the surface of the earth including, but not limited to, holding ponds, surface spraying, septic tanks, drainage fields and wells, but shall not include any discharge or the waste treatment system related thereto licensed under Title 38, section 413 or any discharge into a municipal or quasi-municipal sewer system. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 4807
  • Waste: means any liquefied sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, chemical, biological or radiological materials, human body wastes, or any other refuse or effluent in a liquid form generated from domestic, commercial or industrial activities, except any wastes containing insufficient liquid to be free flowing and wastes generated from agricultural activities or animal husbandry. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 4807
A lot of less than the frontage required in section 4807-A may be used for subsurface waste disposal if approved in writing by the Department of Human Services. Approval must be granted if the applicant for approval demonstrates to the Department of Human Services that such frontage will not cause such lot to be of such configuration as to prevent compliance with the standards in section 4807-B, or not otherwise present any harm to public health, safety or general welfare. [PL 1991, c. 824, Pt. A, §20 (AMD).]
SECTION HISTORY

PL 1973, c. 411, §1 (NEW). PL 1985, c. 481, §A22 (AMD). PL 1991, c. 824, §A20 (AMD).