14-15-2-7. Holding tanks; sewage disposal

IN Code § 14-15-2-7 (2019) (N/A)
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Sec. 7. (a) As used in this section, "sewage" means human body wastes.

(b) A person may not keep, maintain, or operate upon public water a boat that is equipped with a water closet or toilet unless the water closet or toilet is equipped with a holding tank with the capacity to store wastes for subsequent disposal at:

(1) an approved shoreside facility or incinerator; or

(2) a treatment system approved by the department of environmental management according to rules adopted by the environmental rules board.

(c) A person may not dispose of sewage accumulated in a holding tank or any other container on a watercraft in a manner that the sewage reaches or may reach public waters, except through a sewage disposal facility approved by the department of environmental management according to rules adopted by the environmental rules board.

[Pre-1995 Recodification Citations: 14-1-1-1 part; 14-1-1-8.]

As added by P.L.1-1995, SEC.8. Amended by P.L.113-2014, SEC.95.