Porta Potty Rental in Elko, NV 89801

Standing a unit on your own ground needs no City permit. Nevada regulates two other things, though, and both reach a customer rather than only a supplier.

Servicing is permitted at state level, through the health authority. Nevada makes it unlawful to run a service providing nonsewered toilets without a permit, and separately requires an annual septic tank pumping contractor permit before anyone empties one. That permit lists every vehicle and tank, names each discharge location and carries a letter of acceptance from the site taking the waste. Trucks show the operator's name, telephone number and permit number in letters at least four inches high, tanks are labelled as sewage, records run three years, and waste may not be deposited within 600 feet of a highway or a residence. The state fee list sets $332 a year plus $322 for each pumping unit. Your supplier's paperwork is part of your compliance, and your account manager confirms the arrangements in writing.

The units themselves carry state standards. An in-service unit must be cleaned at least once every seven days and more often where needed, kept supplied with paper, fitted with a self-closing door and screened openings, and marked with the name and telephone number of the service that provided it. The holding tank must be enclosed, vented, watertight and empty while the unit is in transit.

Private property and job sites: keep units inside your boundary and off the public walk. On a mine or ranch site, place them where a service truck can turn without a long reverse.

City events run through the clerk, and the council decides the street. Elko treats a planned public gathering on a street or other city property as a special event when it involves vendors, sits in the downtown corridor between Railroad Street and Commercial Street, or needs a closure. The application goes to the city clerk at least 30 days ahead, with sign-off from the police, fire, street and park departments, insurance naming the City, and area mapping. A closure needs City Council approval the first time, after which a repeat may be approved administratively. City offices are at 1751 College Avenue on 775-777-7100.

Sanitation is written into the Elko permit as your duty. The City makes it the responsibility of the event organizer to provide for the sanitation and disposal needs identified through the application process. There is no published Elko ratio, so the number comes from the state table and your plan, and the City signs off on what you present. A committee of the mayor, a council member, the fire chief and the police chief can revoke a permit even while the event is running, so an under-supplied site is a real risk.

Very large or multi-day gatherings add a second permit. An outdoor assembly expecting 500 or more people a day, running 20 or more hours a day for more than three days at a site without permanent facilities, needs a health authority permit filed at least 30 days before the first day. The site plan must identify the location, types and number of toilets and handwashing facilities, and one handwashing facility is required at each group of toilets. The permit dies at midnight on the 30th day and cannot be renewed. State fees run per day: $500 for 500 to 1,000 expected, $750 up to 5,000, $1,000 up to 10,000 and $2,644 above that, under the state fee list.