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1997 Florida Code
TITLE XXIX PUBLIC HEALTH
Chapter 403 Environmental Control  
PART VI DRINKING WATER (ss. 403.850-403.876)
403.856   Plan for emergency provision of water.

403.856  Plan for emergency provision of water.--The department shall adopt an adequate plan, after consultation with the 1Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, for the provision of safe drinking water under emergency circumstances. When, in the judgment of the department, emergency circumstances exist in the state with respect to a need for safe drinking water, it may issue such rule or order as it may deem necessary in order to provide such water where it would not otherwise be available.

History.--s. 7, ch. 77-337.

1Note.--The Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services was redesignated as the Department of Children and Family Services by s. 5, ch. 96-403, and the Department of Health was created by s. 8, ch. 96-403.

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