Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 23-65 - Board of Certification of Operators of Public Water Supply Facilities

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Assistant superintendent: means the individual who is an operator who is responsible for the management, operation, and maintenance of a water supply treatment facility or water transmission and distribution system in the absence of the superintendent and who shall have a certificate appropriate to the type and grade of the water treatment facility or water transmission and distribution system. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-65-1
• Board: means the board of certification established by § 23-65-2. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-65-1
• Certificate: means a certificate of competency issued by the director to an individual to operate one or more specified classes of public water supply facilities. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-65-1
• 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.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Director: means the director of the department of health or a subordinate to whom the director has assigned his or her functions. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-65-1
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Groundwater under the direct influence of surface water: means any water beneath the surface of the ground with (i) significant occurrence of insects or other microorganisms, algae, or large diameter pathogens such as Giardia Iamblia, or (ii) significant and relatively rapid shifts in water characteristics such as turbidity, temperature, conductivity, or PH which closely correlate to climatological or surface water conditions. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-65-1
• Non-community non-transient water system: means a non-community water system that regularly services at least twenty-five (25) of the same persons over six (6) months per year. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-65-1
• Non-community water system: means a public water system that is not a community water system. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-65-1
• Operator: means an individual whose routine job duties involve performing operational activities or making decisions regarding the daily operational activities of a public water system, water treatment facility and/or transmission and distribution system, that may directly impact the quality and/or quantity of drinking water. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-65-1
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means any individual, partnership, firm, association, joint venture, public or private corporation, trust estate, commission, board, public or private institution, utility, cooperative, municipality or any other political subdivision of this state, any interstate body, or any other legal entity. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-65-1
• Public water supply: means a system for the provisions of the public of piped water for human consumption, if such system has at least fifteen (15) service connections or regularly serves at least twenty-five (25) individuals daily at least sixty (60) days out of the year. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-65-1
• Superintendent: means the individual who is an operator who is directly responsible for the management, operation, and maintenance of a water supply treatment facility or water transmission and distribution system during all working shifts and who shall hold a certificate appropriate to the type and grade of the water treatment facility or water transmission and distribution system. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-65-1
• Transmission and distribution system: means a network of pipes that transports, distributes, and delivers water from a water treatment facility or well(s) to water system customers. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-65-1
• United States: include the several states and the territories of the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-8
• Water supply treatment facility: means an arrangement of devices and structures constructed and/or installed for the purpose of treatment of water supply. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-65-1