CHAPTER 476
An Act to require the Department of Health to evaluate the need for 180-day biochemical oxygen demand sampling of small alternative onsite sewage systems; report.
Approved March 13, 2017
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. § 1. That the Department of Health shall evaluate the need for 180-day biochemical oxygen demand sampling of small alternative onsite sewage systems that serve no more than three attached or detached single-family residences with a combined average flow of less than or equal to 1,000 gallons per day of residential strength sewage, or a structure with an average daily sewage flow of less than or equal to 1,000 gallons per day of residential strength sewage, and shall report its findings to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committee on Education and Health by December 1, 2017.