44.9. A monetary administrative penalty of $750 in the case of a natural person or $3,500 in other cases may be imposed on any person who fails(1) to ensure, by means of a prepared notice signed by a professional, that the equipment in place meets the requirements provided for in the second paragraph of section 6;
(2) to administer a water disinfection treatment in accordance with the conditions provided for in section 8 in the cases provided for therein;
(3) to equip with standby disinfection equipment complying with section 9 the disinfection systems referred to therein;
(4) to comply with the conditions provided for in section 9.2 relating to the products used for the treatment of water intended for human consumption;
(5) to collect or have collected the water samples referred to in section 11 according to the frequencies and on the conditions provided for therein;
(6) to collect at least 50% of the samples referred to in section 11 on the conditions provided for in section 12;
(7) to provide the person in charge of the supplying distribution system with the contact information prescribed by the second paragraph of section 12.1;
(8) to make sampling points referred to in the third paragraph of section 12.1 accessible to the employees or representatives of a municipality, for the purposes of sampling the water supplied;
(9) to collect or to have collected the water samples referred to in section 13 in the cases, on the conditions and according to the frequencies provided for therein;
(10) to collect or to have collected the water samples prescribed by the first or second paragraph of section 14 or 15 according to the frequencies and on the conditions provided for therein;
(11) to collect or to have collected samples from the water supplied in accordance with the terms and conditions provided for in the first paragraph of section 14.1;
(12) to measure the pH of the water for the samples referred to in section 17;
(13) to collect or to have collected the water samples prescribed by the first, second or third paragraph of section 18 or section 19 or 21 according to the frequencies and on the conditions provided for in those sections;
(14) to ensure that the sampling points where samples are collected enable to obtain data representative of the quality of water for the whole network in accordance with section 21.0.1;
(15) to collect or to have collected the monthly samples prescribed by the second paragraph of section 21.1;
(16) to equip every disinfection treatment facility that treats water supplied by a distribution system with the devices prescribed by the first, second or third paragraph of section 22 and complying with the requirements provided for therein;
(17) to measure daily the flow rate, volume, temperature and pH of the water in the accordance with the fourth paragraph of section 22;
(18) to equip a facility referred to in the fifth paragraph of section 22 with software that allows for continuous calculation and an alarm in accordance with that paragraph;
(18.1) to install a device to continuously measure the turbidity of water provided for in the second paragraph of section 22.0.2;
(19) to collect or to have collected the water samples prescribed by the first paragraph of section 22.0.1 or the first paragraph of section 22.0.2 according to the frequencies and on the conditions provided for therein;
(20) to measure the quantity of free residual disinfectant or, as the case may be, the free and total residual disinfectant, in the samples referred to in section 23;
(21) to collect the samples required by section 26 in accordance with the conditions provided for therein;
(22) to ensure, in the case of tank trucks, that the water transfer operations are performed under such sanitary conditions that the water quality is not affected in accordance with the first paragraph of section 27;
(23) to ensure that the water referred to in the second paragraph of section 27 meets the concentration of chlorine prescribed therein;
(24) to measure daily the quantity of free residual chlorine in the samples referred to in the first paragraph of section 28;
(25) to comply with the conditions prior to the transportation of water intended for human consumption provided for in the second or third paragraph of section 29;
(26) to ensure that the samples referred to in the first paragraph of section 30 are collected and kept in accordance to the provision of Schedule 4 or shipped to the analytical laboratory as soon as possible in accordance with that section;
(27) to send for analysis the samples referred to in the first paragraph of section 31 to a laboratory accredited by the Minister in accordance with that section;
(28) to analyze the water samples referred to in the first paragraph of section 32 in accordance with the methods prescribed therein;
(29) to give to users the notices prescribed by the fourth paragraph of section 36 according to the frequency and the conditions provided for therein;
(30) to collect or to have collected the minimum number of water samples prescribed by the first paragraph of section 39 according to the frequencies and the conditions provided for therein or provided for in the third or fourth paragraph of that section;
(31) to measure the quantity of free and total residual disinfectant in the samples referred to in the second paragraph of section 39;
(32) to collect or to have collected the water samples according to the frequencies and the conditions provided for or to certify to the Minister, where applicable, the efficiency of the necessary corrective measures in the cases provided for in the first paragraph of section 40;
(33) to take the measures relating to the collection of samples, their analysis and the verifications prescribed by the first or second paragraph of section 42 in the case provided for therein;
(34) to ensure that the duties referred to in section 44 are carried out by a person certified within the meaning of that section or under the supervision of such a person;
(35) to ensure that a person employed to perform a task referred to in the first, second, third or fourth paragraph of section 44.0.2 is certified within the meaning of section 44 or is under the supervision of such a person;
(36) to send to the Minister the attestation prescribed by the third paragraph of section 53 within the period and on the conditions provided for therein;
(37) to collect or to have collected the water samples referred to in the first paragraph of section 53.0.1 according to the frequencies and the conditions provided for or to send the samples to a laboratory referred to in that section;
(38) to hold the attestation referred to in section 53.2 in accordance with the conditions prescribed therein.