This Law, composed of 31 articles, provides for the State Sanitation Policy, considered as the overall actions, services and work aimed at reaching increasing levels of environmental sanitation through potable water supply, waste collection and disposal, health promotion in land use and land occupation. In particular, the Law institutes the State Sanitation Plan, the State Sanitation System (SESAN), and the State Sanitation Fund (FESAN). The State Sanitation Policy aims to: ensure the benefits of environmental sanitation to the entire population of the State; promote the mobilization and integration of available institutional, technological, economic, financial and administrative resources, aiming at the achievement of the established objective; promote the development of technological, financial and managerial capacity of public sanitation services in the State; and promote the organization, planning and development of the sanitation sector in the State.
Brazil · 1992-02-28