REGULATES EVACUATION AND DRAINAGE SYSTEMS FOR RAINWATER Having present that the H. National Congress has |! |given its approval to the following P r o y c t o d e l e y: " Article 1.-The State will ensure that in the cities and in the populated centers there are systems for the evacuation and drainage of rainwater that allow for easy drainage and disposal and prevent the damage that they can cause to people, to housing and, in general, to urban infrastructure. The planning, study, projection, construction, repair, maintenance and improvement of the primary network of drainage systems and drainage of rainwater will be the responsibility of the Ministry of Public Works. The secondary network will be in charge of the Ministry of Housing and Urbanism to whom it will correspond, directly, its planning and study and, through the Housing and Urbanization Services, the projection, construction, repair and maintenance of the itself. The Directorate of Hydraulic Works and Housing and Urbanization Services may contract the performance of the works to the provisions of this law, according to the procedures laid down in their respective organic standards, the health services companies may be eligible for such contracts. Article 2.-For the purposes mentioned in the previous article, the Ministry of Public Works will develop master plans, in which it will define what constitutes the primary network of evacuation systems and drainage of rainwater. These plans will be approved by supreme decree signed by the Ministers of Public Works and Housing and Urbanism. The rest of the networks, which are not covered by the definition of the primary network, will constitute, by exclusion, the secondary network of water drainage and drainage systems. The water drainage and drainage networks that will be built will be independent of the sewage systems of sewage water and will not be able to have interconnection between them. However, they may be unitary or have interconnection between them, where the competent authority so provides, established in an engineering study which justifies it from a technical point of view. Article 3.-Amend the Supreme Decree No. 294, 1984, of the Ministry of Public Works, which fixed the recast, coordinated and systematized text of Law No. 15,840, Organic of the Ministry of Public Works, and of the decree with force of Law No. 206, Law of Roads, in the following form: 1. Substitute, in Article 12 and in all the articles in which the words "Direction of Hydraulic Works" appear, and 2. Intercalase, in Article 13, the following point (m), new, passing the current letters m) and (n) to be letters (n) and (o), respectively: " m) The planning, study, projection, construction, operation, repair, conservation and improvement of the works of the primary network of drainage systems and drainage of rainwater, until their evacuation in natural channels. ' Article 4-Substitute Article 12 (g) of Decree Law No. 1.305, 1975, which restructured and regionalized the Ministry of Housing and Urbanism, by the following: " g) Carry out the study and propose the use of technical standards national and regional infrastructure and home facilities for electricity, gas, telephones, urban road paving and the evacuation of rainwater through secondary networks of water drainage and drainage systems that The invention also has a primary network of water drainage and drainage systems, all in the agreement with the respective master plan and with the rules that the Ministry of Public Works will dictate. It will also be responsible for the proposal of rules for the administration, exploitation, conservation and improvement of water sewer services, whether they be fiscal, municipal or private, as well as to carry out the studies and propose the dictating of technical, design, calculation, construction, standards or other aspects of Community equipment; '; Article 5.-Substitute the first paragraph of Article 134 of the General Law of Urbanism and Constructions, as follows: " Article 134.-To urbanize a land, the owner of the land must execute, at its cost, the pavement of the streets and passages, plantations and works of ornato, sanitary and energy installations, with their works of feeding and drainage of water and rain water, and the works of defense and service of the land. " Article 6.-The master plans and the coordination of the activities indicated in the above articles should consider the situation of the river basins. Actions to prevent erosion and deforestation will be constituent elements of the plan. Transitional Articles Article 1.-The master plans that will define the primary networks for the evacuation and drainage of rainwater in the cities and towns of more than 50,000 inhabitants, must be approved within the maximum period of 5 years. Article 2.-The construction of rainwater collectors will not be required for urbanizers, while the master plan for the area in which the land will be located has not been approved, and another must be used. system for the evacuation of rainwater. Article 3.-From the moment when the water drainage and drainage networks are built, and within the five-year period from that date, the water sinks currently connected to sewerage networks water, must be connected to the water drainage and drainage networks. " And because I have had to approve and sanction it; therefore, promulgate and take effect as the Law of the Republic. Santiago, October 24, 1997.-EDUARDO FREI RUIZ-TAGLE, President of the Republic.-Ricardo Lagos Escobar, Minister of Public Works.-Sergio Henriquez Díaz, Minister of Housing and Urbanism. What I transcribe to you for your knowledge.-Salute atte. to Ud., Guillermo Pickering of the Source, Undersecretary of Public Works.