Title 25 — Environmental Health

Regardless of the disposition of the charge upon which a citation is issued or fine imposed a person is guilty of a misdemeanor if he willfully fails to: (1) answer a lawful citation; or (2) pay a fine imposed under this title within the time required unless retrial is requested.…

The violations bureau shall accept appearances waivers of trial, pleas of guilty and payments of fines for public health offenses subject to the limitations of this section and 25.2031 through 25.2033. It shall operate under the direction and control of the Clerk of the High Cour…

Any person charged with a public health offense may appear before the violations bureau in person before the close of business hours and within 7 business days from the date of the service of the summons and, upon signing a plea of guilty and waiver of trial, pay the fine for the…

Fines imposed by the district court for violations of this chapter shall be paid to, receipted by, and accounted for by the violations bureau during business hours. History: 1972, PL 12-44 § 8; and 1979, PL 16-53 § 56; 2001, PL 27-8. Amendments: 1979 Substituted reference to dist…

If any provision of this chapter or its application to particular persons or circumstances is held invalid by a court of law, the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected, nor shall the remainder of the provisions of this chapter be af…

(a) No wholesale or retail establishment located or doing business in the Territory of American Samoa shall, directly or indirectly, give, provide, or make available plastic shopping bags to customers or consumers. (b) The American Samoa Environmental Protection Agency (“ASEPA”) …

Every owner, lessee, or occupant of an occupied building wherever located, shall comply with the following: (a) Whenever any building is infested, or becomes infested with rodents, adequate measures shall be taken in good faith to endeavor to eradicate such rodents by poisoning, …

(a) Every owner or lessee of an unoccupied building, or of any vacant lot located in any village or urban area, shall keep such building and its grounds, or such vacant lot, including any area between the property line and the road in sanitary condition free from all rubbish garb…

All public and private docks and wharves shall be so constructed and protected as to prevent rodents from gaining access thereto or thereunder at either high or low tide. All foodstuffs on such docks and wharves shall be so kept and stored as to prevent rodents from gaining acces…

Whenever any vessel or other watercraft arriving from any port infected or suspected of being infected with human or rodent plague lies alongside any wharf or dock, or whenever any vessel or other watercraft was docked at any port at which, in the opinion of the Director there ex…

Food shall be stored only in rodent-proof boxes, bins, or rooms. History: 1972, PL 12-44 § 9.

The act codified in this chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Safe Drinking Water Act”. History: 1979, PL 16-13 § 1.

As used in this chapter: (a) “Administrator” means the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (b) “Agency” means the Department of Health or such other Territorial agency as shall be charged with responsibility for implementation and enforcement of this chapte…

(a) The Director shall adopt and enforce primary drinking water rules that at any given time shall be no less stringent than the complete interim or revised national primary drinking water regulations in effect at that time. (b) Subject to 25.3004 the primary drinking water rules…

Rules adopted under 25.3003 under conditions and in a manner as he considers necessary and desirable; provided, that those variances or exemptions are permitted under conditions and in a manner in which variances and exemptions may be granted under the federal act. History: 1979,…

The Director, upon receipt of information that a contaminant which is present in or is likely to enter a public water system may present an imminent and substantial endangerment to the health of persons, may take action as he considers necessary in order to protect the health of …

The Director shall adopt an adequate plan for the provision of safe drinking water under emergency circumstances. When, in the judgment of the Director, emergency circumstances exist in American Samoa with respect to a need for safe drinking water he may take action as he conside…

Whenever a public water supply system: (1) is not in compliance with the primary drinking water rules; (2) fails to perform monitoring required by rules adopted by the Director; (3) is subject to a variance granted for an inability to meet a maximum contaminant level requirement;…

The following acts are prohibited: (1) failure by a supplier of water to comply with the requirements of 25.3007, or dissemination by that supplier of any false or misleading information with respect to notices required under 25.3007 or with respect to remedial actions being unde…

To carry out the provisions and purposes of this chapter the Director is authorized and empowered to: (1) perform any and all acts necessary to carry out the purposes and requirements of this chapter relating to the adoption and enforcement of primary drinking water rules; (2) ad…

(a) A fine not less than $1,000 and not more than $10,000 may be imposed on persons who violate paragraph (1) of 25.3008. (b) Persons who violate or fail or refuse to comply with orders issued by the Director under 25.3005, or pay a civil penalty issued pursuant to this section, …