R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 343: DISCHARGE OF SEWAGE FROM PLEASURE BOATS

Environmental Protection Act
Loi sur la protection de l’environnement

R.R.O. 1990, REGULATION 343

No Amendments

DISCHARGE OF SEWAGE FROM PLEASURE BOATS

Historical version for the period December 31, 1990 to February 11, 2007.

This Regulation is made in English only.

1. In this Regulation,

“pleasure boat” means a boat used primarily for the carriage of a person or persons for pleasure, whether on charter or not, and whether for compensation or not, and includes a boat used on water for living purposes;

“sewage” means organic and inorganic waste, and includes fuel, lubricants, litter, paper, plastics, glass, metal, containers, bottles, crockery, rags, junk or similar refuse or garbage, and human excrement, but does not include,

(a) liquid wastes, free of solids, from water used in a pleasure boat for household purposes, or

(b) exhaust wastes, cooling water and bilge water from a pleasure boat;

“storage equipment” means equipment of a design and construction suitable for the storage or the incineration and storage of human excrement in a pleasure boat including such equipment that is an integral part of a toilet;

“toilet”, in relation to a pleasure boat, means equipment designed or used for defecation or urination by humans. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 343, s. 1.

2. No person shall discharge or deposit, or cause or permit to be discharged or deposited, into any water, sewage from a pleasure boat. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 343, s. 2.

3. The owner and the operator of every pleasure boat in which a toilet is installed shall ensure that, while the boat is on water,

(a) the boat is equipped with storage equipment; and

(b) such toilet and storage equipment are installed so as to be non-portable. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 343, s. 3.

4. The owner of a pleasure boat in which a toilet or toilets and storage equipment are installed shall ensure that each toilet and the storage equipment are installed so that,

(a) the toilet and equipment are connected in such a manner that the equipment receives all toilet waste from the toilet;

(b) equipment designed for the storage of human excrement is provided with a deck fitting and such connecting piping as is necessary for the removal of toilet waste by shore-based pumping equipment;

(c) no means of removal of toilet waste is provided other than the means mentioned in clause (b);

(d) equipment designed for the incineration and storage of human excrement is supplied with such electrical current or other source of heat as is necessary to reduce to ash all excrement deposited therein; and

(e) all parts of the system for removal of toilet waste are congruent with one another and the boat. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 343, s. 4.