§22-26-2. Authority of state and county boards of health to require installation of plumbing facilities, connections with sanitary sewers, etc.; compliance with rules and regulations.

The State Board of Health and/or county boards of health, acting through its duly authorized agents or employees, shall require every person, firm or corporation or municipal corporation, or agent thereof, owning or occupying property within the state, to install the required plumbing facilities, type and number of sewage collection, treatment and disposal facilities conforming to rules and regulations of the State Board of Health and/or county boards of health and require connection to a sanitary sewer conforming to rules and regulations of the State Board of Health and/or county boards of health where sanitary sewers are available and are not regulated by the municipal corporation, or to dispose of sewage in such sanitary manner as shall be approved by the State Board of Health. All required sewage treatment and disposal facilities shall conform in every respect with the specifications, rules and regulations applying to these facilities made, adopted and promulgated by the State Board of Health and/or county boards of health and shall be maintained as prescribed by the said rules and regulations.

(Acts 1969, No. 1127, p. 2089, §2.)