Septic rules by state
Every state page names the office that writes the septic code and the office that issues the permit. Each fact cites the government document it came from.
50 states published. A state appears here the day its file is checked and not before.
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
If you arrived here from a ZIP code we could not place, pick the state the property is in. The state page names who issues the permit there. Washington, DC has no page. The District is sewered and permits no new septic systems, so there is no septic rule to source.