SECTION 785:35-1-3. General statutory authority

  The Oklahoma Water Resources Board, under directive of 82 O.S. 1991, §§1020.16 and 1085.2, as amended, is required to adopt appropriate rules and regulations governing applications for licensing persons engaged in the commercial drilling or plugging of groundwater, monitoring and fresh water or site assessment observation wells, wells utilized for heat exchange purposes, including but not limited to heat pump wells and geothermal wells, and in the drilling of geotechnical boring, for the proper completion of groundwater, monitoring and fresh water or site assessment observation wells and wells used for heat exchange purposes and geotechnical boring drilled in the State of Oklahoma, and for the licensing of pump installers and for the proper installation of pumps. The rules and regulations contained in this Chapter are adopted for the purpose of performing the duties of licensing well drillers and pump installers as directed by law.

[Source: Amended at 10 Ok Reg 3299, eff 6-25-93; Amended at 11 Ok Reg 2947, eff 6-13-94]