Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation
 
Board
Board for Waterworks and Wastewater Works Operators and Onsite Sewage System Professionals
 
chapter
Onsite Sewage System Professionals Licensing Regulations [18 VAC 160 ‑ 40]
Action General Review 2014
Stage Proposed
Comment Period Ended on 2/12/2016
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1/24/16  7:22 pm
Commenter: James Slusser

REQUEST BOARD TO RECONSIDER CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENTS
 

Practitioner Comment:   Contracts should be required and minimum contractual requirements should be included in the regulation.

The Board licenses individuals, not business entities.  The Board for Contractors already governs contract requirements and it lists minimum contractual requirements in its regulations.--K.R. Davis


 

THE WWWOOSP BOARD HAS A RESPONSIBILITY TO REMOVE DECEPTIVE PRACTICES  IN THE INDUSTRY WHILE ADDRESSING THE PROPOSED REGULATIONS. 

 

Onsite professionals are routinely failing to disclose limits of service in both the operation and maintenance services and onsite design services.  Failure of the board to recognize and respond to the complaints has left the injured citizen with limited options for recovery. Virginia currently has a statute of limitations for breach of a written contract is five years, and for the breach of a non-written contract it is three years. Va. Code Ann. §8.01-246.

Is it the intention of the WWWOOSP board to deny  2 years of benefit during a professional breach to the consumer? 


SUGGESTION:  Create language for contractual agreements.  If the "entity" must be regulated, then incorporate that requirement into the proposed regulations.

CommentID: 49209