24.17.250 Quality assurance.

(1)    CCPH will maintain an active quality assurance program in order to provide the level of oversight required by law for the protection of consumers and protection of the public from the potential health risks of improperly sited, designed, installed, or operated OSS systems.

(2)    Designers will provide final inspections on all alternative systems.

(3)    CCPH reserves the authority to provide final inspections of all systems. In addition, CCPH will:

(a)    Provide either a complete soil and site evaluation at the request of the property owner, or a concurrency soil/site evaluation (including staking reviews when necessary), in order to ensure that land shall support a conforming OSS.

(i)    When staking is required but building site data is not available to allow it to be done simultaneously with a soil and site evaluation, CCPH will do an additional staking evaluation at a fee designated by the BOH when such data becomes available.

(4)     CCPH will audit the work of county-certified professionals through both random site visits and review of electronic reporting data to determine compliance with industry standards. In addition, CCPH reserves the right to conduct random audits of designers’ final inspections.

(a)    Inspection of pumper trucks will be carried out once a year and meet requirements outlined in Section 24.17.220.

(b)     CCPH will conduct random audits of certified professionals and report findings of those audits.

(5)     When licensed or certified professionals are found in violation of the requirements of this chapter, CCPH will perform one (1) or more of the following:

(a)    Develop a written corrective action plan with the professional indicating steps they will take to avoid such deficiencies in the future.

(b)    Increase audit frequency.

(c)    For DOL-licensed professionals, report to the Department of Licensing.

(d)    For CCPH-certified professionals, violation of these requirements may be grounds for suspension, revocation, or denial of renewal of the CCPH-issued certification or enforcement under Title 32:

(i)    Any certified professional, OSS professional company or property owner found working on systems for which he or she is not certified, violating conflict of interest policies, or defrauding or attempting to defraud a customer or CCPH, may be subject to enforcement under Title 32 and may have their certification immediately revoked.

(ii)    Persons contesting the results of a decision may request an informal review by the program manager, or may request a hearing in accordance with the regulations in this chapter. (Sec. 26 of Ord. 2007-10-01; amended by Sec. 22 of Ord. 2021-11-05)