I would under no circumstances breathe a word to any state or county official. They may know all the rules about filling one, but they will run you ragged with threats, fines, permits, fees, inspections, and on and on. If there is a good, strong, safe top on it so no kids can drown, I would leave it alone.
A cistern is just a storage cavity, not a well. If you pump a cistern dry, it will stay relatively dry unless the gutters or something else drains in it to refill it. Folks around here with a cistern only had to haul water in every week or so to refill it.
If you pumped it dry, and then it refills quickly, with no rain, then it must be a well and be connected to some sort of water table.
If it connects to a water table, then pollution would be an issue if contaminants such as grease, oil or herbicides could get in it.
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