Code of Alabama - Title 34: Professions and Businesses - Chapter 21A - Onsite Wastewater Board and Licensees

• Section 34-21A-1 Purpose
  The Alabama Onsite Wastewater Board is created to examine, license, and regulate persons engaged in the manufacture, installation, or servicing of onsite sewage systems in...
• Section 34-21A-2 Definitions
  The following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them as used in this chapter unless the context requires a different meaning: (1) BOARD....
• Section 34-21A-3 Alabama Onsite Wastewater Board
  (a) There is established the Alabama Onsite Wastewater Board. The board shall consist of nine members who shall, at the time of appointment and during...
• Section 34-21A-4 Meetings, compensation, expenses of the board
  (a) Within 30 days after annual appointment of new members, the board shall meet for the purpose of organizing, electing new officers, and transacting such...
• Section 34-21A-5 Officers, executive director, and administration of the board
  (a) At its annual organizational meeting, the board shall elect from its members a chair, vice-chair, and a secretary/treasurer for a one-year term of office....
• Section 34-21A-6 Funding and financial administration of the board
  (a) There is hereby established a separate special fund in the State Treasury to be known as the "Alabama Onsite Wastewater Board Fund." All receipts...
• Section 34-21A-7 Duties and authority of the board
  The duties of this board shall include, but not be limited to the following: (1) Establish procedures and qualifications for the licensure of individuals engaged...
• Section 34-21A-8 Annual report of the board
  The board shall annually submit to the Governor a report of its transactions for the preceding fiscal year, and file a copy of the report...
• Section 34-21A-9 Rules and regulations
  The board may adopt and issue rules and regulations necessary to carry out this chapter, subject to the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act, Chapter 22 of...
• Section 34-21A-10 Exemptions
  The licensing requirements of this chapter shall not apply to owners of property for the purpose of installing, cleaning, servicing, or maintaining an onsite sewage...
• Section 34-21A-11 Fees
  The board may establish and charge reasonable fees for the processing of all applications, administration of examinations, issuance of all active and inactive licenses, license...
• Section 34-21A-12 Licenses
  (a) The board shall establish the following types of licenses: (1) A basic level installer license. (2) An advanced level I installer license. (3) An...
• Section 34-21A-13 Form of application for licenses, examinations, and license renewals
  (a) All applicants for licenses, examinations, or license renewals shall be required to complete specific application forms developed and provided by the board. Information required...
• Section 34-21A-14 Eligibility requirements for license application
  (a) The board shall develop eligibility requirements to be met by applicants seeking licensing by the board. The minimum application requirements shall include, but are...
• Section 34-21A-15 Requirements of examination, areas, and levels of qualification
  (a) No license shall be issued by the board without examination of the applicant for the purpose of ascertaining his or her qualifications for such...
• Section 34-21A-16 Bond requirement for licensees
  In order to assure financial stability and professional competence and performance of licensees, all licensees, without exception, are required to be bonded for any work...
• Section 34-21A-17 Applicability of licensing provisions
  After December 31, 1999, individuals not currently licensed will be required to follow the requirements for license application, including completing required training and successfully passing...
• Section 34-21A-18 Annual renewal of license
  (a) A license is only valid during the calendar year indicated on the license. At the end of that calendar year, the license will expire...
• Section 34-21A-19 Inactive license
  The board shall formulate rules and criteria under which an applicant may request an inactive license and determine circumstances when a license may become inactive...
• Section 34-21A-20 Replacement licenses
  The board shall issue a replacement to a licensee who shows upon application that the current license has been lost, destroyed, or stolen or if...
• Section 34-21A-21 Revocation and suspension of license
  (a) The board shall establish criteria for circumstances warranting the suspension or revocation of a license and establish the procedures for suspension or revocation of...
• Section 34-21A-22 Complaint and regulation procedures
  (a) The board shall establish procedures to process, review, and investigate reports and complaints of fraud, incompetence, misconduct, and dishonest or illegal acts of licensees...
• Section 34-21A-23 Reinstatement of license
  This board shall determine the procedure to be followed for reinstatement of a suspended or revoked license. The procedures shall include, but not be limited...
• Section 34-21A-24 Appeal procedure
  After revocation or suspension of license, the licensee may, within 10 days of notice of the board's order and finding, file with the board a...
• Section 34-21A-25 Penalties and sanctions
  (a) Any person who undertakes or attempts to undertake the business of manufacturing, installing, servicing, cleaning, repairing, or maintaining any onsite sewage system or equipment...
• Section 34-21A-26 Sunset provisions
  The operations of the board shall terminate October 1, 2003, and every fourth year thereafter unless continued in accordance with the Alabama Sunset Law.

Last modified: May 3, 2021