Title 23, Title 23 and Safety

(a) The “owner” (or supervisor) of a publicly owned building or administrator of a group of public buildings or the owner of a private building, excluding a private residence, shall appoint from his or her employees sufficient persons competent in the basic aspects of asbestos in…

(a)(1) The director shall establish procedures and regulations for the following procedures: (i) For the certification of a competent person, of designated public maintenance employees, of designated teacher and parent representatives, of laboratories performing analysis of asbes…

(a) Any physician or employee of a licensed medical facility making the diagnosis of mesothelioma, asbestosis, or any illness or death suspected as being due to asbestos exposure must be reported to the director of health within six (6) months of the diagnosis. (b) The physician …

Except for the provisions of this chapter relating to rule making, penalties, standards, and appeals, the director may after filing notice with the secretary of state delegate to another state agency any of the chapter’s administrative duties, including, but not limited to, inspe…

Except as provided in this chapter, the inspection, enforcement, and penalties for violations of the provisions of this chapter shall be in accordance with the provisions and procedures set forth in §§ 23-1-19 — 23-1-25.

Except as provided in this chapter, asbestos is declared to be a hazardous substance subject to the provisions and limitations of chapter 24 of this title.

(a) There is established within the department of administration an asbestos and dangerous product abatement fund. The purpose of this fund shall be: (1) To provide funds for the purchase or lease of testing and removal equipment by the department; (2) To provide grants and low i…

For the purpose of this chapter: (1) “Abatement” means the repair, enclosure, encapsulation, or removal of friable asbestos in significant quantities as determined by the director by regulation. The term shall not apply to those spot repairs of limited areas of asbestos as determ…

(a) The general treasurer is authorized and empowered with the approval of the governor and in accordance with the provisions of this chapter to issue from time to time bonds in the name and behalf of the state and in any amounts as may be specified by the governor in an aggregat…

The general treasurer is authorized from time to time with the approval of the governor in the anticipation of the issue of notes or bonds under the authority of this chapter to advance to the fund money to be used for the purposes specified in this chapter.

The provisions of this chapter shall be liberally construed and shall be held to be in addition to, and not in substitution for a limitation of, the provisions of any other law. If any provision of this chapter or the application of this chapter to any person or circumstances is …

(a) There is established an asbestos advisory board consisting of eleven (11) members within the department of health. (b) The purpose of the board shall be as follows: (1) To monitor the implementation of this chapter, to ensure that the records of all departments and agencies o…

Notwithstanding any other law, any and all certification fees charged and costs incurred pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall not be subject to reimbursement to any municipality by operation of any mandate of this chapter.

(a) No person or entity shall make oral or written representations of licensure as an asbestos contractor or asbestos abatement site supervisor or asbestos abatement worker unless they possess a currently valid license for the activity which has been issued by the director pursua…

(a) Except as specified in this chapter, any person or entity acting in violation of either this chapter or any rules or regulations promulgated pursuant to the authority conferred by this chapter shall be fined by the director in an amount not to exceed twenty-five thousand doll…

The purpose of this chapter is to protect the public health and public interest by prohibiting, limiting, and regulating the use of and to require the abatement of asbestos and asbestiform materials that are a danger to the public health. The removal of asbestos and asbestiform m…

The general assembly finds, upon the reports, hearings, and records of its legislative commission to study asbestos exposure, and of its own committees, and those of other states, and of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, that asbestos materials and asbestiform ma…

(a) No owner of a structure with friable asbestos or with friable asbestiform materials or any person or entity owning or controlling asbestos or asbestiform products in a friable state shall allow any person to be exposed to asbestos or asbestiform materials in a friable conditi…

(a) The owner of any public or private building containing friable asbestos material in violation of this chapter, who shall within one hundred twenty (120) days of notice of the violation, file an abatement plan with the director shall be relieved of liability for the violation …

(a) The director, or his or her designee, or any inspector employed by the department of health or the department of labor and training designated by the director of health is authorized to inspect at a reasonable time without prior notice as part of an overall plan of periodic i…

(a) On any building accessible to the public where there is friable asbestos either in violation of the air sample exposure standard or action criteria standard as determined by the director or where there is demolition or repair of asbestos material taking place or abatement pro…

(a) The director may close public access to any building or portion of a building in which the director after notice and hearing has found to contain friable asbestos in any condition or amount that there exists a public health danger. (b) No portion of any building containing fr…