Fifteen states have public financing programs for candidates, including Connecticut. For the 2000 election, Connecticut ranked fifth in voter turnout among those 15 states. Current law prohibits businesses that do business with the officer of treasurer along with individuals who are officers or employees with discretionary responsibilities of those companies from donating to the campaign of anyone running for any public office. The Department of Environmental Protection provides funding to town and nonprofit land conservation organizations seeking to protect open space land. DEP also provides funding to water companies seeking to purchase water shed land.
Land owned by water utilities falls into one of three classes.
The SO 2 standards, which only apply to the power plants, occur in two stages. The second stage begins January 1, 2003. The regulations also include provisions for emergency waivers from the SO 2 standards based on fuel shortages. Diversions include withdrawals of more than 50,000 gallons from wells or surface water in any 24-hour period, and certain other activities. Guns A 1999 law allows a state's attorney, assistant state's attorney, or two police officers to ask a judge to issue a warrant to search for a firearm if they have probable cause to believe that a person poses imminent risk of injury to himself or others and has one or more guns on his person or someplace else.