1. (a) The state department shall adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 that provide for a reasonable period not exceeding forty-five (45) days in which a plan review and permit for residential septic systems must be approved or disapproved.

2. (b) This subsection applies to a county with a population of more than seventy-seven thousand (77,000) but less than eighty thousand (80,000). As used in this subsection, "fill soil" means soil transported and deposited by humans or soil recently transported and deposited by natural erosion forces. A rule that the state department adopts concerning the installation of residential septic systems in fill soil may not prohibit the installation of a residential septic system in fill soil on a plat if:

   1. (1) before the effective date of the rule, the plat of the affected lot was recorded;
   2. (2) there is not an available sewer line within seven hundred fifty
   3. (750) feet of the property line of the affected lot; and

   4. (3) the local health department determines that the soil, although fill soil, is suitable for the installation of a residential septic system.

      [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-3-33.]

As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.24. Amended by P.L.167-1999, SEC.1; P.L.170-2002, SEC.110; P.L.119-2012, SEC.144.