1.1. Alternate/Experimental Sewage System. A non-standard individual sewage disposal system or treatment system which is classified as experimental in order to evaluate its potential effectiveness.

1.2. Authorized agent. The Sanitarian assigned to the County or Local area by the Division of Sanitarian Services.

1.3. Community sewage system. Any system, whether public or privately owned, serving two or more individual lots, for the collection and disposal of sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature, including various devices for the treatment of such sewage or industrial wastes.

1.4. Curtain drain. A subsurface drainline usually constructed upgrade from the lateral lines to divert seasonal ground water away from leaching system.

1.5. Department. The Arkansas Department of Health, Division of Sanitarian Services.

1.6. Designated Representative. A person designated by the authorized agent to make percolation tests, system designs and inspections subject to the authorized agent's final approval. Designated representatives shall be registered professional engineers, registered land surveyors, licensed master plumbers, registered sanitarians or other similiarly qualified individuals holding current certificates from the State of Arkansas, and shall demonstrate to the satisfaction of the authorized agent prior to their designation as a “designated representative” their competency to make percolation tests, designs and final inspections for individual sewage disposal systems in accordance with these Rules and Regulations & when authorized by the Sanitarian.

1.7. Distribution box. A water-tight box that receives the discharge of effluent from the septic tank and distributes the flow of sewage to each individual line of the leaching system.

1.8. Diversion Device. A proprietary or individually manufactured device used to alternate the effluent load between 2 or more soil absorption systems.

1.9. Domestic sewage. All wastes discharging from sanitary conveniences and plumbing fixtures of a domestic nature, exclusive of industrial and commercial wastes.

1.10. Dosing tank. A tank constructed of concrete, plastic, fiberglass or other approved material that contains one or more pumps or automatic siphons designed to deliver a specified volume of sewage effluent to the distribution system.

1.11. Effluent line or outlet sewer. A water-tight pipeline that carries the effluent from the septic tank to the distribution box.

1.12. Grease interceptor or grease trap. A device to catch or trap grease that is in suspension or solution in liquid waste and to retain the grease solids separated in the trap receptacle.

1.13. High Water Mark. The line which the water impresses on the soil by covering it for sufficient periods of time to deprive it of vegetation.

1.14. Homeowner. A person who owns and occupies a building as his home.

1.15. House sewer. A water-tight pipeline that carries sewage and other wastes to the septic tank, sometimes called the influent line, beginning 3 to 5 feet outside the building wall.

1.16. Individual sewage disposal system. A single system of treatment tanks and/or disposal facilities used for the treatment of domestic sewage, exclusive of industrial wastes, serving only a single dwelling, office building, or industrial plant or institution.

1.17. Industrial wastes. Liquid wastes resulting from the processes employed in industrial and commercial establishments.

1.18. Installer. Any person, firm, corporation, association, municipality, or governmental agency, who constructs, installs, alters or repairs individual sewage disposal systems for others.

1.19. Mottling. Irregular spots in the soil of different colors that vary in number and size. Mottling generally indicates poor aeration and impeded drainage.

1.20. Municipality. A city, town, county, district, or other public body created by or pursuant to State Law, or any combination thereof, acting cooperatively or jointly.

1.21. Person. Any institution, public or private corporation, individual, partnership, or other entity.

1.22. Potable water. Water free from impurities in amounts sufficient to cause disease or harmful physiological effects with the bacteriological and chemical quality conforming to applicable standards of the Arkansas State Board of Health.

1.23. Property owner. A person who owns and may or may not occupy the property.

1.24. Property Owners Association. An association created by and pursuant to State law and organized for the purpose of maintaining common facilities including sewage disposal facilities in unincorporated subdivisions.

1.25. Restrictive Soil Layer. A soil layer that impedes the movement of water, air and growth of plant roots. Examples of such layers or conditions are groundwater tables, hardpans, claypans, fragipans, compacted soil, bedrock and clayey soil.

1.26. Scum. The accumulated floating material, including grease and other light solids, in a septic tank.

1.27. Seasonal Ground Water Table. Subsurface level at which water bearing strata is determined by the presence of water or by visible mottling of the soil.

1.28. Septic Tank Manufacturer. A person, firm, corporation or association who manufactures septic tanks, package treatment plants or other components for individual sewage disposal or treatment systems.

1.29. Septic tank. A single tank or series of tanks in which two processes take place; settling of the solids, and the digestion of some of the accumulated solids by anaerobic action.

1.30. Sewage. Any liquid wastes containing animal or vegetable matter in suspension or solution, including liquid wastes from toilets, kitchen sinks, lavatories, washing machines and other plumbing fixtures.

1.31. Sludge. The settled solids that have separated from the liquid in a septic tank.

1.32. Soil absorption system. The system for the final renovation of the septic tank effluent and return of the renovated waste water to the hydrologic cycle. The leaching system includes the lateral lines or sewage disposal line, the perforated pipes, the rock material and the leaching trenches.

1.33. Subdivision. Land divided or proposed to be divided for predominately residential purposes into such parcels as required by local ordinances, or in the absence of local ordinances, subdivision means any land which is divided or proposed to be divided by a common owner or owners for predominately residential purposes into three or more lots or parcels, any of which contains less than three acres, or into platted or unplatted units any of which contains less than three acres, as a part of a uniform plan of development.

1.34. Valid Permit. A permit for construction is valid for a period of 1 year from the date of approval.