35-4-201. Department of health to cooperate with municipal authorities, corporations and persons as to water, drainage and sewage; definitions of "drainage" and "sewage".

The department shall consult with and advise the authorities of cities and towns and persons having or about to have systems of water supply, drainage and sewage as to the most appropriate source of water supply and the best method assuring its purity or as to the best method of disposing of their drainage or sewage with reference to the existing and future needs of other cities, towns or persons which may be affected thereby. It shall also consult with and advise all corporations, companies or persons engaged or intending to engage in any manufacturing or other business whose drainage or sewage may tend to pollute any inland water as to the best method of preventing such pollution, and it may conduct experiments to determine the best methods of the purification or disposal of drainage or sewage. Cities, towns and all other corporations, companies or persons shall submit to the department for its advice and approval their proposed system of water supply or of the disposal of drainage or sewage, and no city, town or persons or company shall proceed to build or install or enlarge or extend any system of water supply, drainage or sewage disposal, without first obtaining the approval of the state department of health. In this section the term "drainage" means rainfall, surface and subsoil water only, and "sewage" means domestic and industrial filth and waste.