14.16.320 Pretreatment sludges—Hospital wastes.

(A) Hospitals, clinics, offices of medical doctors and convalescent homes shall not discharge to the sanitary sewer:

(1) Equipment, instruments, utensils, hypodermic needles, syringes, and associated articles;

(2) Any article that may harbor or transmit pathogenic organisms and that are used in the rooms of patients having a suspected or diagnosed communicable disease, which by the nature of the disease is required to be isolated;

(3) Recognizable portions of the human anatomy;

(4) Waste excluded by other provisions of these regulations.

(B) Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the authority of appropriate health agencies to define wastes as being infectious and to prohibit discharge to the sanitary sewer.