The following acts are prohibited:

(1)        Failure by a supplier of water to comply with this Article, an order issued under this Article, or the drinking water rules;

(2)        Failure by a supplier of water to comply with the requirements of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 130A-324 or the dissemination by a supplier of any false or misleading information with respect to remedial actions being undertaken to achieve compliance with the drinking water rules;

(3)        Refusal by a supplier of water to allow the Department or local health department to inspect a public water system as provided for in N.C. Gen. Stat. § 130A-17;

(4)        The willful defiling by any person of any water supply of a public water system or the willful damaging of any pipe or other part of a public water system;

(5)        The discharge by any person of sewage or other waste above the intake of a public water system, unless the sewage or waste has been passed through a system of purification approved by the Department ; and

(6)        The failure by a person to maintain a system approved by the Department for collecting and disposing of all accumulations of human excrement located on the watershed of a public water system. (1979, c. 788, s. 1; 1983, c. 891, s. 2; 1985, c. 462, s. 2; 1989, c. 727, s. 146.)

Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes 130A-325

  • following: when used by way of reference to any section of a statute, shall be construed to mean the section next preceding or next following that in which such reference is made; unless when some other section is expressly designated in such reference. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3