The following acts are prohibited:
(1) Failure by a supplier of water to comply with this Article, an order issued under this Article, or the drinking water rules;
(2) Failure by a supplier of water to comply with the requirements of G.S. 130A‑324 or the dissemination by a supplier of any false or misleading information with respect to remedial actions being undertaken to achieve compliance with the drinking water rules;
(3) Refusal by a supplier of water to allow the Department or local health department to inspect a public water system as provided for in G.S. 130A‑17;
(4) The willful defiling by any person of any water supply of a public water system or the willful damaging of any pipe or other part of a public water system;
(5) The discharge by any person of sewage or other waste above the intake of a public water system, unless the sewage or waste has been passed through a system of purification approved by the Department ; and
(6) The failure by a person to maintain a system approved by the Department for collecting and disposing of all accumulations of human excrement located on the watershed of a public water system. (1979, c. 788, s. 1; 1983, c. 891, s. 2; 1985, c. 462, s. 2; 1989, c. 727, s. 146.)