19-6-905 - Notification of property owner -- Notification of municipality or county.
19-6-905. Notification of property owner -- Notification of municipality or county.
(1) (a) If the local health department determines a property is contaminated, it shallnotify the owner of record that the property has been placed on the contamination list and shallprovide to the owner information regarding remediation options and the requirements necessaryto clean up the property, obtain certification that the property is decontaminated, and remove theproperty from the contamination list.
(b) The notification shall include a deadline for the owner to provide to the local healthdepartment information on how the owner plans to address the contamination.
(c) This part does not require that decontamination be conducted by a certifieddecontamination specialist. However, upon completion of the decontamination, the propertymust be determined to be decontaminated in accordance with Subsection 19-6-903(4)(c) in orderto be removed from the contamination list.
(2) If the local health department does not receive a response from the owner of recordwithin the time period specified in the notice, or the owner of record advises the local healthdepartment that the owner does not intend to take action or that the reported property will beabandoned, the local health department shall notify the municipality in which the reportedproperty is located, or the county, if the location is in an unincorporated area, of the owner ofrecord's response or lack of response.
Enacted by Chapter 249, 2004 General Session