As used in ORS § 454.782 to 454.800:

(1) ‘Commission’ means the Environmental Quality Commission.

(2) ‘Department’ means the Department of Environmental Quality.

(3) ‘Septage’ means the domestic liquid and solid sewage pumped from septic tanks, cesspools, holding tanks, vault toilets, chemical toilets or other similar domestic sewage treatment components or systems and other sewage sludge not derived at sewage treatment plants. [1999 c.978 § 1]

 

454.782 to 454.800 were enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but were not added to or made a part of ORS Chapter 454 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.