                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 32.1-167)

As used in this article, unless the context clearly requires a different
meaning:
		&#8220;Aesthetic standards&#8221; means water quality standards which involve
those physical, biological, and chemical properties of water that adversely
affect the palatability and consumer acceptability of water through taste, odor,
appearance, or chemical reaction.
		&#8220;Chronically noncompliant waterworks&#8221; means a waterworks that is
unable to provide pure water for any of the following reasons: (i) the
waterworks&#8217; record of performance demonstrates that it can no longer be
depended upon to furnish pure water to the persons served; (ii) the owner has
inadequate technical, financial, or managerial capacity to furnish pure water to
the persons served; (iii) the owner has failed to comply with an order issued by
the Board or Commissioner pursuant to § 32.1-26 or 32.1-175.01; (iv) the owner
has abandoned the waterworks and has discontinued supplying pure water to the
persons served; or (v) the owner is subject to a forfeiture order pursuant to §
32.1-174.1.
		&#8220;Governmental entity&#8221; means the Commonwealth, a town, city,
county, service authority, sanitary district, or any other governmental body
established under state law, including departments, divisions, boards, or
commissions.
		&#8220;Human consumption&#8221; means drinking, food preparation, dishwashing,
bathing, showering, hand washing, teeth brushing, and maintaining oral hygiene.
		&#8220;Owner&#8221; means an individual, group of individuals, partnership,
firm, association, institution, corporation, governmental entity, or the federal
government, that supplies or proposes to supply water to any person within this
Commonwealth from or by means of any waterworks.
		&#8220;Pure water&#8221; means water fit for human consumption that is (i)
sanitary and normally free of minerals, organic substances, and toxic agents in
excess of reasonable amounts and (ii) adequate in quantity and quality for the
minimum health requirements of the persons served.
		&#8220;Special order&#8221; means an administrative order issued to any person
to comply with: (i) the provisions of any law administered by the Board, (ii)
any condition of a permit, (iii) any regulation of the Board, or (iv) any case
decision, as defined in § 2.2-4001, of the Board. A special order may include a
civil penalty of not more than $1000 for each day of violation.
		&#8220;Water supply&#8221; means water taken into a waterworks from wells,
streams, springs, lakes, and other bodies of surface water, natural or
impounded, and the tributaries thereto, and all impounded ground water but does
not include any water above the point of intake of such waterworks.
		&#8220;Waterworks&#8221; means a system that serves piped water for human
consumption to at least 15 service connections or 25 or more individuals for at
least 60 days out of the year. &#8220;Waterworks&#8221; includes all structures,
equipment, and appurtenances used in the storage, collection, purification,
treatment, and distribution of pure water except the piping and fixtures inside
the building where such water is delivered.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 62.1-45; 1964, c. 475; 1968, c. 659; 1977, c. 7; 1979, c.
711; 1997, c. 342; 2007, cc. 648, 774; 2014, c. 333.