32.1-167 - Definitions.
§ 32.1-167. Definitions.
As used in this article, unless the context clearly requires a differentmeaning:
1. "Aesthetic standards" means water quality standards which involve thosephysical, biological and chemical properties of water that adversely affectthe palatability and consumer acceptability of water through taste, odor,appearance or chemical reaction.
2. "Chronically noncompliant waterworks" means a waterworks that is unableto provide pure water for any of the following reasons: (i) the waterworks'record of performance demonstrates that it can no longer be depended upon tofurnish pure water to the persons served, (ii) the owner has inadequatetechnical, financial or managerial capacity to furnish pure water to thepersons served, (iii) the owner has failed to comply with an order issued bythe Board or Commissioner pursuant to § 32.1-26 or 32.1-175.01, (iv) theowner has abandoned the waterworks and has discontinued supplying pure waterto the persons served, or (v) the owner is subject to a forfeiture orderpursuant to § 32.1-174.1.
3. "Domestic use" means normal family or household use, including drinking,laundering, bathing, cooking, heating, cleaning and flushing toilets.
4. "Governmental entity" means the Commonwealth, a town, city, county,service authority, sanitary district or any other governmental bodyestablished under state law, including departments, divisions, boards orcommissions.
5. "Owner" means an individual, group of individuals, partnership, firm,association, institution, corporation, governmental entity or the federalgovernment, which supplies or proposes to supply water to any person withinthis Commonwealth from or by means of any waterworks.
6. "Pure water" means water fit for human consumption and domestic use (i)which is sanitary and normally free of minerals, organic substances and toxicagents in excess of reasonable amounts and (ii) which is adequate in quantityand quality for the minimum health requirements of the persons served.
7. "Special order" means an administrative order issued to any person tocomply 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) anycase decision, as defined in § 2.2-4001, of the Board. A special order mayinclude a civil penalty of not more than $1000 for each day of violation.
8. "Water supply" means water taken into a waterworks from wells, streams,springs, lakes and other bodies of surface water, natural or impounded, andthe tributaries thereto, and all impounded ground water but does not includeany water above the point of intake of such waterworks.
9. "Waterworks" means a system that serves piped water for drinking ordomestic use to (i) the public, (ii) at least fifteen connections or (iii) anaverage of twenty-five individuals for at least sixty days out of the year.The term "waterworks" shall include all structures, equipment andappurtenances used in the storage, collection, purification, treatment anddistribution of pure water except the piping and fixtures inside the buildingwhere such water is delivered.
(Code 1950, § 62.1-45; 1964, c. 475; 1968, c. 659; 1977, c. 7; 1979, c. 711;1997, c. 342; 2007, cc. 648, 774.)