Sections
§ 19-5-101 Short title
§ 19-5-102 Definitions
§ 19-5-103 Water Quality Board — Members of board — Appointment — Terms — Organization — Meetings — Per diem and expenses
§ 19-5-104 Powers and duties of board
§ 19-5-104.5 Legislative review and approval
§ 19-5-105 Rulemaking authority and procedure
§ 19-5-105 v2 Rulemaking authority and procedure
§ 19-5-105.3 Independent peer review of a proposal
§ 19-5-105.5 Agriculture water
§ 19-5-105.6 Agriculture Certificate of Environmental Stewardship
§ 19-5-106 Director — Appointment — Duties
§ 19-5-107 Discharge of pollutants unlawful — Discharge permit required
§ 19-5-108 Discharge permits — Requirements and procedure for issuance
§ 19-5-108.3 Construction site storm water runoff control
§ 19-5-108.5 Storm water permits
§ 19-5-109 Grounds for revocation, modification, or suspension of discharge permit
§ 19-5-110 Designation by governor of areas with quality control problems — Classification of waters — Adoption of standards of quality
§ 19-5-111 Notice of violations — Hearings
§ 19-5-112 Hearings conducted by an administrative law judge — Decisions on denial or revocation of permit conducted by executive director
§ 19-5-113 Power of director to enter property for investigation — Records and reports required of owners or operators
§ 19-5-114 Spills or discharges of oil or other substance — Notice to director
§ 19-5-115 Violations — Penalties — Civil actions by director — Ordinances and rules of political subdivisions — Acts of individuals
§ 19-5-116 Limitation on effluent limitation standards for BOD, Total Suspended Solids, Bacteria, and pH for domestic or municipal sewage
§ 19-5-117 Purpose and construction of chapter
§ 19-5-118 Chapter deemed auxiliary and supplementary to other laws
§ 19-5-119 State permits not required where federal government has primary responsibility
§ 19-5-120 Sewage permit program fee
§ 19-5-121 Underground wastewater disposal systems — Certification required to design, inspect, maintain, or conduct percolation or soil tests — Exemptions — Rules — Fees
§ 19-5-122 Underground wastewater disposal systems — Fee imposed on new systems
§ 19-5-123 Underground Wastewater Disposal System Restricted Account created — Contents — Use of account money
§ 19-5-124 Phosphorus limit for household dishwashing detergent
§ 19-5-125 Yurt exemption
§ 19-5-126 Division of Water Quality Oil, Gas, and Mining Restricted Account
Part 2 Capital Assets for Wastewater 19-5-201 – 19-5-203
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Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 19 > Chapter 5 - Water Quality Act

  • Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
  • Agriculture water: means :
         (2)(a) water used by a farmer, rancher, or feed lot for the production of food, fiber, or fuel;
         (2)(b) return flows from irrigated agriculture; and
         (2)(c) agricultural storm water runoff. See Utah Code 19-5-102
  • AHJ: means "authority having jurisdiction" which is:
         (2)(a) the State Fire Marshal;
         (2)(b) an authorized deputy of the State Fire Marshal; or
         (2)(c) the local fire enforcement authority. See Utah Code 15A-5-102
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • 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.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Board: means the Water Quality Board created in Section 19-1-106. See Utah Code 19-5-102
  • Board: means the Utah Fire Prevention Board created in Section 53-7-203. See Utah Code 15A-1-102
  • Capital asset: means an asset that:
         (1)(a) is a significant investment or an essential component necessary to provide a wastewater service, including:
              (1)(a)(i) a facility;
              (1)(a)(ii) infrastructure, whether above or below ground level;
              (1)(a)(iii) equipment; or
              (1)(a)(iv) a communications network; and
         (1)(b) is owned by a wastewater service provider. See Utah Code 19-5-201
  • City: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Commission: means the Conservation Commission, created in Section 4-18-104. See Utah Code 19-5-102
  • Contaminant: means a physical, chemical, biological, or radiological substance or matter in water. See Utah Code 19-5-102
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • 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.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Department: means the Department of Environmental Quality. See Utah Code 19-1-103
  • Director: means the director of the Division of Water Quality or, for purposes of groundwater quality at a facility licensed by and under the jurisdiction of the Division of Waste Management and Radiation Control, the director of the Division of Waste Management and Radiation Control. See Utah Code 19-5-102
  • Discharge: means the addition of a pollutant to waters of the state. See Utah Code 19-5-102
  • Discharge permit: means a permit issued to a person who:
         (8)(a) discharges or whose activities would probably result in a discharge of pollutants into the waters of the state; or
         (8)(b) generates or manages sewage sludge. See Utah Code 19-5-102
  • Disposal system: means a system for disposing of wastes and includes sewerage systems and treatment works. See Utah Code 19-5-102
  • Division: means the Division of Water Quality, created in Subsection 19-1-105(1)(e). See Utah Code 19-5-102
  • Division: means the State Fire Marshal Division created in Section 53-7-103. See Utah Code 15A-5-102
  • Division: means the Division of Professional Licensing created in Section 58-1-103, except as provided in:
  • Dwelling unit: includes a hotel room, dormitory room, apartment, condominium, sleeping room in a nursing home, or similar living unit. See Utah Code 15A-5-102
  • Effluent limitations: means restrictions, requirements, or prohibitions, including schedules of compliance established under this chapter, that apply to discharges. See Utah Code 19-5-102
  • Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See Utah Code 46-4-102
  • Electronic record: means a record created, generated, sent, communicated, received, or stored by electronic means. See Utah Code 46-4-102
  • Electronic signature: means an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to or logically associated with a record and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the record. See Utah Code 46-4-102
  • Equal: means , with respect to biological sex, of the same value. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • 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.
  • Executive director: means the executive director of the department appointed pursuant to Section 19-1-104. See Utah Code 19-1-103
  • Fire jurisdiction: means a contiguous geographic area for which there is a single authority having jurisdiction. See Utah Code 15A-5-102
  • Governing body: means a political subdivision governing body defined in Section 63A-15-102. See Utah Code 19-5-201
  • Governmental agency: means an executive, legislative, or judicial agency, department, board, commission, authority, institution, or instrumentality of the federal government or of a state or of a county, municipality, or other political subdivision of a state. See Utah Code 46-4-102
  • IFC: means the edition of the International Fire Code adopted under Section 15A-5-103. See Utah Code 15A-5-102
  • Information: means data, text, images, sounds, codes, computer programs, software, databases, or the like. See Utah Code 46-4-102
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Land: includes :
         (18)(a) land;
         (18)(b) a tenement;
         (18)(c) a hereditament;
         (18)(d) a water right;
         (18)(e) a possessory right; and
         (18)(f) a claim. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • NFPA: means the edition of the National Fire Protection Association adopted under Section 15A-5-103. See Utah Code 15A-5-102
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • 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, trust, firm, estate, company, corporation, partnership, association, state, state or federal agency or entity, municipality, commission, or political subdivision of a state. See Utah Code 19-1-103
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, governmental agency, public corporation, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Utah Code 46-4-102
  • pollutant: means dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, and industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste discharged into water. See Utah Code 19-5-102
  • Pollution: means a man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological, or radiological integrity of waters of the state, unless the alteration is necessary for the public health and safety. See Utah Code 19-5-102
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • Publicly owned treatment works: means a facility for the treatment of pollutants owned by the state, its political subdivisions, or other public entity. See Utah Code 19-5-102
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Utah Code 46-4-102
  • Road: includes :
         (33)(a) a public bridge;
         (33)(b) a county way;
         (33)(c) a county road;
         (33)(d) a common road; and
         (33)(e) a state road. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Sewage sludge: means solid, semisolid, or liquid residue removed during the treatment of municipal wastewater or domestic sewage. See Utah Code 19-5-102
  • Sewerage system: means pipelines or conduits, pumping stations, and other constructions, devices, appurtenances, and facilities used for collecting or conducting wastes to a point of ultimate disposal. See Utah Code 19-5-102
  • Signature: includes a name, mark, or sign written with the intent to authenticate an instrument or writing. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • State: includes an Indian tribe or band, or Alaskan native village, that is recognized by federal law or formally acknowledged by a state. See Utah Code 46-4-102
  • State Construction Code: means the State Construction Code adopted by:
         (3)(b) Chapter 2a, Tall Wood Buildings of Mass Timber Construction Incorporated as Part of State Construction Code;
  • State Fire Code: means the State Fire Code adopted by Chapter 5, State Fire Code Act. See Utah Code 15A-1-102
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Total maximum daily load: means a calculation of the maximum amount of a pollutant that a body of water can receive and still meet water quality standards. See Utah Code 19-5-102
  • Town: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Transaction: means an action or set of actions occurring between two or more persons relating to the conduct of business, commercial, or governmental affairs. See Utah Code 46-4-102
  • Treatment works: means a plant, disposal field, lagoon, dam, pumping station, incinerator, or other works used for the purpose of treating, stabilizing, or holding wastes. See Utah Code 19-5-102
  • Underground injection: means the subsurface emplacement of fluids by well injection. See Utah Code 19-5-102
  • Underground wastewater disposal system: means a system for underground disposal of domestic wastewater discharges as defined by the board and the executive director. See Utah Code 19-5-102
  • United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Utah Code: means the 1953 recodification of the Utah Code, as amended, unless the text expressly references a portion of the 1953 recodification of the Utah Code as it existed:
         (42)(a) on the day on which the 1953 recodification of the Utah Code was enacted; or
         (42)(b)
              (42)(b)(i) after the day described in Subsection (42)(a); and
              (42)(b)(ii) before the most recent amendment to the referenced portion of the 1953 recodification of the Utah Code. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Utah Code: means the Utah Code Annotated (1953), as amended. See Utah Code 15A-1-102
  • Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
  • Vessel: when used with reference to shipping, includes a steamboat, canal boat, and every structure adapted to be navigated from place to place. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Wastewater service provider: means a political subdivision of the state that owns, operates, or otherwise sponsors through agreement a sewerage system, a treatment works, or large underground wastewater disposal system for the collection, storage, treatment, or disposal of domestic waste. See Utah Code 19-5-201
  • Writing: includes :
         (48)(a) printing;
         (48)(b) handwriting; and
         (48)(c) information stored in an electronic or other medium if the information is retrievable in a perceivable format. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5