Minn. Stat. § 103I.005
The definitions in this chapter apply to this chapter.
"Bored geothermal heat exchanger" means an earth-coupled heating or cooling device consisting of a sealed closed-loop piping system installed in a boring in the ground to transfer heat to or from the surrounding earth with no discharge.
"Boring" means a hole or excavation that includes exploratory borings, bored geothermal heat exchangers, temporary borings, and elevator borings.
"Certified representative" means a person certified by the commissioner to represent a well contractor, limited well/boring contractor, environmental well contractor, or elevator boring contractor.
"Commissioner" means the commissioner of health.
"Department" means the Department of Health.
"Dewatering well" means a nonpotable well used to lower groundwater levels to allow for construction or use of underground space. A dewatering well does not include:
"Drive point well" means a well constructed by forcing a pointed well screen, attached to sections of pipe, into the ground with the screen and casing forced or driven into the ground with a hammer, maul, or weight.
"Elevator boring" means a bore hole, jack hole, drilled hole, or excavation constructed to install an elevator hydraulic cylinder.
"Elevator boring contractor" means a person with an elevator boring contractor's license issued by the commissioner.
[Repealed, 1Sp2017 c 6 art 10s 148]
"Environmental well" means an excavation 15 or more feet in depth that is drilled, cored, bored, washed, driven, dug, jetted, or otherwise constructed to:
An environmental well does not include an exploratory boring.
"Environmental well contractor" means a person with an environmental well contractor's license issued by the commissioner.
"Exploratory boring" means a surface drilling done to explore or prospect for oil, natural gas, apatite, diamonds, graphite, gemstones, kaolin clay, and metallic minerals, including iron, copper, zinc, lead, gold, silver, titanium, vanadium, nickel, cadmium, molybdenum, chromium, manganese, cobalt, zirconium, beryllium, thorium, uranium, aluminum, platinum, palladium, radium, tantalum, tin, and niobium, and a drilling or boring for petroleum.
"Explorer" means a person with an explorer's license issued by the commissioner.
"Groundwater thermal exchange device" means a heating or cooling device that depends on extraction and reinjection of groundwater from an independent aquifer to operate.
"Limited well/boring contractor" means a person with a limited well/boring contractor's license issued by the commissioner. Limited well/boring contractor's licenses are issued for:
[Repealed, 2005 c 106s 68]
[Repealed, 1Sp2017 c 6 art 10s 148]
[Repealed, 1Sp2017 c 6 art 10s 148]
"Person" means an individual, firm, partnership, association, or corporation or other entity including the United States government, any interstate body, the state, and any agency, department, or political subdivision of the state.
"Provisions of this chapter" means the sections in this chapter and rules adopted by the commissioner under this chapter.
"Submerged closed loop heat exchanger" means a heating and cooling device that:
A submerged closed loop heat exchanger includes other necessary appurtenances such as submersible pumps, a heat exchanger, and piping.
"Temporary boring" means an excavation that is 15 feet or more in depth, is sealed within 72 hours of the time of construction, and is drilled, cored, washed, driven, dug, jetted, or otherwise constructed to:
[Repealed, 1991 c 199 art 2s 29; 1991 c 355s 54]
[Repealed, 1990 c 597s 73]
[Repealed, 2013 c 108 art 12s 109]
"Water supply well" means a well that is not a dewatering well or environmental well and includes wells used:
"Well" means an excavation that is drilled, cored, bored, washed, driven, dug, jetted, or otherwise constructed if the excavation is intended for the location, diversion, artificial recharge, monitoring, testing, remediation, or acquisition of groundwater. Well includes environmental wells, drive point wells, and dewatering wells. "Well" does not include:
"Well disclosure certificate" means a certificate containing the requirements of section 103I.235, subdivision 1, paragraph (j).
"Well contractor" means a person with a well contractor's license.
A "well that is in use" means a well that operates on a daily, regular, or seasonal basis. A well in use includes a well that operates for the purpose of irrigation, fire protection, or emergency pumping.
"Wellhead protection area" means the surface and subsurface area surrounding a well or well field that supplies a public water system, through which contaminants are likely to move toward and reach the well or well field.
Minn. Stat. § 103I.005
1989 c 326 art 3 s 2; 1990 c 597 s 16-20; 1991 c 355 s 6-8; 1999 c 153 s 1-3; 2000 c 260 s 15; 2005 c 106 s 9-15; 2006 c 281 art 3 s 16; 2008 c 277 art 1 s 5; 2013 c 108 art 12 s 11, 108