(A) The Health Officer shall maintain a register of all persons engaged in or intending to engage in the installation, construction or repair of sewage disposal systems or equipment within the county.
(B) Any person engaged in or intending to engage in the installation, construction or repair of sewage disposal systems or equipment in the county must first make application to the Health Officer to have his, her or their name placed upon a contractors’ register, a register of those engaged in the installation, construction and repair of sewage disposal systems or equipment. The application which will be provided by the County Board of Health shall contain the name and address of the person, firm or corporation and such other information as the Health Officer may reasonably require to aid him or her in the administration and enforcement of this subchapter and regulations adopted pursuant hereto. Failure of any person engaged in, or intending to engage in the installation, construction or repair of sewage disposal systems or equipment in the county to first make application to the Health Officer to have his, her or their names placed upon the contractors’ register shall constitute a violation of this subchapter and subject such violator to the penalties prescribed herein.
(C) Any person making application to have a name placed on the contractors’ register shall submit with such application a fee as set forth in the current fee schedule approved by the Board of Commissioners of the county. Placement of the name of any person, firm or corporation on the contractors’ register shall be valid for a term of one year beginning January 1 and expiring December 31 of the same year and shall be renewed annually.
(D) The Health Officer may remove the name of any person from the contractors’ register who has, in the opinion of the Health Officer, demonstrated inability or unwillingness to comply with this subchapter or the rules and regulations adopted hereunder. Such person may request that his or her name or the name of his or her firm be reinstated on said register by the Health Officer after satisfactorily demonstrating ability or willingness to comply with this subchapter and the rules and regulations adopted thereunder.
(E) The person causing his or her name or the name of a firm, partnership, association or corporation to be placed upon the contractors’ register or a person approved by the Health Officer must be present at all times that work is being performed in the installation of sewage disposal systems or equipment in conformity with this subchapter and the rules and regulations adopted hereunder.
(F) No registration or renewal thereof shall be denied or revoked on arbitrary or capricious grounds.
(BC Ord. 1991-3, passed 5-28-1991) Penalty, see § 52.99