§ 32.1-167 Definitions.
§ 32.1-168 Exemptions.
§ 32.1-169 Supervision by Board.
§ 32.1-170 Regulations.
§ 32.1-171 Technical assistance as to sources and purity.
§ 32.1-171.1 Waterworks operation fee required; special fund established; certain technical assistance program to be provided.
§ 32.1-171.2 Water Supply Assistance Grant Fund established.
§ 32.1-172 Permit required.
§ 32.1-172.1 Attendance by licensed operator.
§ 32.1-173 Additional or amended permits.
§ 32.1-173.1 Increase in charges to finance required changes.
§ 32.1-174 Revocation of permits.
§ 32.1-174.1 Bonds of permit holders.
§ 32.1-174.2 Duties of electric utilities.
§ 32.1-174.3 Appointment of receiver for certain private waterworks; grounds for such appointment; petition and hearing, etc.
§ 32.1-174.4 Identification and elimination of chronically noncompliant waterworks.
§ 32.1-175 Emergency orders; appeal.
§ 32.1-175.01 Issuance of special orders.
§ 32.1-175.1 Notice to local government.
§ 32.1-176 Penalty.
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Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 32.1 > Chapter 6 > Article 2 - Public Water Supplies.

  • Aesthetic standards: 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. See Virginia Code 32.1-167
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Chronically noncompliant waterworks: means a waterworks that is unable to provide pure water for any of the following reasons: (i) the waterworks' 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 § Virginia Code 32.1-167
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Department: means the State Department of Health. See Virginia Code 32.1-3
  • Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Governmental entity: 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. See Virginia Code 32.1-167
  • Human consumption: means drinking, food preparation, dishwashing, bathing, showering, hand washing, teeth brushing, and maintaining oral hygiene. See Virginia Code 32.1-167
  • in writing: include any representation of words, letters, symbols, numbers, or figures, whether (i) printed or inscribed on a tangible medium or (ii) stored in an electronic or other medium and retrievable in a perceivable form and whether an electronic signature authorized by Virginia Code 1-257
  • Includes: means includes, but not limited to. See Virginia Code 1-218
  • Owner: 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. See Virginia Code 32.1-167
  • 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 an individual, corporation, partnership, or association or any other legal entity. See Virginia Code 32.1-3
  • Process: includes subpoenas, the summons and complaint in a civil action, and process in statutory actions. See Virginia Code 1-237
  • Pure water: 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. See Virginia Code 32.1-167
  • Special order: 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 § Virginia Code 32.1-167
  • Town: means any existing town or an incorporated community within one or more counties which became a town before noon, July 1, 1971, as provided by law or which has within defined boundaries a population of 1,000 or more and which has become a town as provided by law. See Virginia Code 1-254
  • Water supply: 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. See Virginia Code 32.1-167
  • Waterworks: 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. See Virginia Code 32.1-167