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CT Gen Stat § 19a-209. (Formerly Sec. 19-83) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368e - Municipal Health Authorities|Section 19a-209. (Formerly Sec. 19-83) - Jurisdiction of local director of health over streams.

 The director of health of a town, city or borough contiguous to any stream or body of water which is not wholly within the limits of such town, city or borough shall, in the enforcement of the laws, rules and regulations relating to public health, have jurisdiction over such stream or body of water and the islands situated therein.(1949 Rev., S. 3853.)History: Sec. 19-83 transferred to Sec. 19a-209 in 1983.Annotation to former section 19-83:First selectmen of towns have never possessed any authority concerning matters affecting the public health. 8 CS 431.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-209b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368e - Municipal Health Authorities|Section 19a-209b - Prohibited discontinuance of water service from private residential wells.

 No person who owns a private residential well that (1) currently supplies or previously supplied water to another household, and (2) provides or previously provided continuous water service to such household for a period of at least fifty years, may discontinue such water service in the absence of an alternative, available source of water for such household. Each household to whom the private residential well supplies water shall contribute equally to the costs associated with maintaining the well.(P.A. 07-244, S. 5.)History: P.A. 07-244 effective July 11, 2007.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-209c (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368e - Municipal Health Authorities|Section 19a-209c - Application for exception to separating distance requirements for repair or new construction of subsurface sewage disposal system. Notice requirements. Approval of application not an affirmative defense to claims relating to contamination.

 (a) Any person who applies to the Department of Public Health for an exception to the separating distance requirements for the repair or new construction of a subsurface sewage disposal system relative to a water supply well, shall notify all owners of properties with water supply wells affected by the exception request of such application by certified mail, return receipt requested. The notice shall include a copy of the application.(b) A decision approving such an application shall not be an affirmative defense for the owner of the subsurface sewage disposal system to any claim of liability for damages relating to contamination caused by the proximity of a subsurface sewage disposal system to a water supply well.(P.A. 07-244, S. 7; P.A. 08-184, S. 4.)History: P.A. 07-244 effective July 11, 2007; P.A. 08-184 amended Subsec. (a) by substituting “an exception to the separating distance requirements for” in place of “authorization relating to” re applications to department, by replacing provision re waiver of proximity requirement with “relative to a water supply”, by changing notification requirements from “abutting” properties to properties “with water supply wells affected by the exception request”, and by deleting provision re department's decision constituting a final decision for purposes of Sec. 4-183, and amended Subsec. (b) by substituting “water supply” for “private residential”.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-210. (Formerly Sec. 19-84) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368e - Municipal Health Authorities|Section 19a-210. (Formerly Sec. 19-84) - Removal of refuse.

 Any board of health or borough or town director of health may, upon the written complaint of any person having an interest in any land, cause the removal of refuse and rubbish from such land and shall apportion the expenses of such removal among the co-owners; provided the cost of removal of any refuse and rubbish caused by the alteration or erection of any structure on such land shall be charged to the owner or owners causing such alteration or erection.(1949 Rev., S. 3854.)History: Sec. 19-84 transferred to Sec. 19a-210 in 1983.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-211. (Formerly Sec. 19-85) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368e - Municipal Health Authorities|Section 19a-211. (Formerly Sec. 19-85) - Toilets in public places.

 Any owner or person having the care, custody or control of any building, room or premises maintained for or used by the public, who allows any toilet in any such building, room or premises or connected therewith to be in an insanitary condition, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars for each offense. The director of health of each town, city or borough shall inspect each such toilet and cause the same to be maintained in a sanitary condition and shall make complaint of any failure to maintain any such toilet in such condition to a prosecuting officer having jurisdiction. The failure of any director of health to perform his duty under the provisions of this section shall be cause for his removal.(1949 Rev., S. 3855.)History: Sec. 19-85 transferred to Sec. 19a-211 in 1983.See Sec. 19a-105 re requirements concerning public toilets.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-212. (Formerly Sec. 19-86) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368e - Municipal Health Authorities|Section 19a-212. (Formerly Sec. 19-86) - Nuisance arising from swampy lands.

 When there exist upon any premises swampy or wet places or depressions in which a foul and unhealthy condition, arising from natural causes, permanently exists, the director of health of the town or the health committee, director of health or board of health of any city or borough, in which such places or depressions exist, upon the written complaint of any person and upon finding that such places or depressions are a source of danger to the public health, may cause such places or depressions to be filled with suitable material or drained. When caused to be done in any town outside the limits of a city or borough, it shall be under the direction of the selectmen of such town, and the expenses incurred thereby shall be paid by the treasurer of the town upon the orders of the selectmen, and, when caused to be done within the limits of any city or borough, the expense thereof shall be borne by such city or borough, provided such director of health, health committee or board of health shall not cause to be expended in any year under the provisions of this section a sum in excess of three hundred dollars, unless expressly authorized by such town, city or borough to expend a greater amount. Any resident or taxpayer of such town, city or borough may appeal from such order of any director of health, health committee or board of health in the manner provided in section 19a-229. If the owner of such premises, or his agent in charge thereof, has been notified in writing by such director of health, health committee or board of health to cause such places to be filled in or drained and has failed to do so, the owner of such premises filled in or drained under the provisions of this section shall pay to the community performing such work the benefits accruing to him therefrom, to be determined in the same manner as benefits are assessed in the layout of streets and highways.(1949 Rev., S. 3856; February, 1965, P.A. 574, S. 26.)History: 1965 act corrected statutory reference from section 19-102; Sec. 19-86 transferred to Sec. 19a-212 in 1983.Annotation to former section 19-86:Cited. 170 C. 387.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-213. (Formerly Sec. 19-87) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368e - Municipal Health Authorities|Section 19a-213. (Formerly Sec. 19-87) - Mosquito-breeding places; treatment.

 When it has been brought to the attention of a director of health or board of health that rain water barrels, tin cans, bottles or other receptacles or pools near human habitations are breeding mosquitoes, such director of health or board of health shall investigate and cause any such breeding places to be abolished, screened or treated in such manner as to prevent the breeding of mosquitoes. The director of health, or any inspector or agent employed by him, may enter any premises in the performance of his duties under this section.(1949 Rev., S. 3857.)History: Sec. 19-87 transferred to Sec. 19a-213 in 1983.See Sec. 22a-45b re elimination of mosquito-breeding places.See Sec. 22a-45c re maintenance of drained land.Annotation to former section 19-87:Cited. 170 C. 387.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-219. (Formerly Sec. 19-92) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368e - Municipal Health Authorities|Section 19a-219. (Formerly Sec. 19-92) - Prevention of blindness in newborn infants.

 (a) Any inflammation, swelling or unusual redness in the eyes of any infant, either apart from or with any unnatural discharge from the eyes of such infant, occurring at any time within two weeks after the birth of such infant, shall, for the purposes of this section, be designated as “inflammation of the eyes of the newborn”. The person in attendance at the birth of any infant shall instill into the eyes of such infant, immediately after birth, a prophylactic preparation approved by the Department of Public Health for the purpose of preventing inflammation of the eyes of newborns. Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars.(b) The prophylactic treatment required by subsection (a) of this section shall not apply to any infant whose parents object to the treatment as being in conflict with their religious tenets and practice. Any person who objects to such treatment shall indemnify attending medical personnel for expenses incurred in connection with any civil action based on lack of such treatment. For purposes of this subsection, “expenses” includes, but is not limited to, judgments, settlements, attorneys' fees and court costs.(1949 Rev., S. 3868; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-8, S. 41.)History: P.A. 77-614 replaced department of health with department of health services, effective January 1, 1979; Sec. 19-92 transferred to Sec. 19a-219 in 1983; P.A. 93-381 replaced department of health services with department of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-8 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a), deleted eye-inflammation reporting requirement, reference to number of eye drops required and requirement that the department furnish solution and added new Subsec. (b) re religious exception.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-220. (Formerly Sec. 19-93) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368e - Municipal Health Authorities|Section 19a-220. (Formerly Sec. 19-93) - Enforcement of orders of health authorities.

 When any person refuses to obey a legal order given by a director of health, health committee or board of health, or endeavors to prevent it from being carried into effect, a judge of the Superior Court may issue his warrant to a proper officer or to an indifferent person, therein stating such order and requiring him to carry it into effect, and such officer or indifferent person shall execute the same.(1949 Rev., S. 3871; March, 1958, P.A. 27, S. 49; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 60; P.A. 74-183, S. 224, 291; P.A. 76-436, S. 193, 681.)History: 1959 act substituted a judge of the circuit court for trial justice or municipal court judge, both of which were abolished; P.A. 74-183 replaced circuit court with court of common pleas; P.A. 76-436 replaced court of common pleas with superior court, effective July 1, 1978; Sec. 19-93 transferred to Sec. 19a-220 in 1983.Annotation to former section 19-93:Cited. 170 C. 675.Annotation to present section:Section authorizes a judge of the Superior Court to issue an administrative search warrant for suspected violations of local ordinances pertaining to the protection of public health when a property owner refuses to obey an order of inspection given by the health department. 322 C. 80.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-222. (Formerly Sec. 19-95) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368e - Municipal Health Authorities|Section 19a-222. (Formerly Sec. 19-95) - Vaccination.

 Directors of health and boards of health may adopt such measures for the general vaccination of the inhabitants of their respective towns, cities or boroughs as they deem reasonable and necessary in order to prevent the introduction or arrest the progress of smallpox, and the expenses in whole or in part of such general vaccination shall, upon their order, be paid out of the town, city or borough treasury, as the case may be. Any person who refuses to be vaccinated, or who prevents a person under his care and control from being vaccinated, on application being made by the director of health or board of health or by a physician employed by the director of health or board of health for that purpose, unless, in the opinion of another physician, it would not be prudent on account of sickness, shall be fined not more than five dollars.(1949 Rev., S. 3874.)History: Sec. 19-95 transferred to Sec. 19a-222 in 1983.Annotations to former section 19-95:Powers of health officer to prevent spread of smallpox. 42 C. 162. Health officers may adopt suitable measures of prevention, although no case of disease has appeared. 65 C. 189.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-223. (Formerly Sec. 19-96) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368e - Municipal Health Authorities|Section 19a-223. (Formerly Sec. 19-96) - Municipalities may contract for health services.

 (a) Any municipal departments of health, pursuant to municipal charter or ordinance, and health districts may contract among themselves for the joint use or benefit of the municipality for services, personnel, facilities, equipment or any other property or resources for matters affecting public health. Any officer or employee of a municipality furnishing such services under such an agreement shall have, in the municipality or district to which the services are furnished, the same authority, responsibilities and duties as to public health as the officer or employee has in the municipality or district employing him.(b) When necessary to protect and preserve the public health and prevent the spread of disease and injury, any municipal department of health, pursuant to any municipal charter or ordinance and with the approval of the chief executive officer of the municipality, or any health district may request emergency assistance and the use of resources from any other municipal department of health or health district. Any officer or employee of a municipality or health district, while acting in response to such a request, shall have, in the municipality or district to which the services are furnished, the same powers, duties, privileges and immunities as are conferred on public health officers and employees of the municipality or district requesting assistance.(1957, P.A. 257; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-8, S. 42, 88.)History: P.A. 77-614 replaced department of health with department of health services, effective January 1, 1979; Sec. 19-96 transferred to Sec. 19a-223 in 1983; P.A. 93-381 replaced department of health services with department of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-8 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and reworded said provisions, removing requirement of legislative body vote and added new Subsec. (b) re requests for assistance, effective July 1, 1997.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-224. (Formerly Sec. 19-97) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368e - Municipal Health Authorities|Section 19a-224. (Formerly Sec. 19-97) - Fish scrap and fertilizer.

 No fertilizer, fish scrap or similar offensive substance shall be loaded upon or unloaded from any vessel in New London Harbor between June first and October first, or at any other time without a written permit obtained from the director of health of the city of New London. No vessel wholly or partially loaded with fertilizer, fish scrap or similar offensive substance shall, unless stormbound, remain in New London Harbor longer than two days, between June first and October first. No fertilizer, fish scrap or similar offensive substance shall, at any time, be loaded or unloaded from any vessel in any of the Connecticut waters lying south of that portion of the Connecticut shore between New London lighthouse and Cornfield Point. The master of any vessel, at anchor or docked in New London Harbor or in the Connecticut waters defined in this section, which is wholly or partially loaded with fertilizer or fish scrap or similar offensive substance, shall, at all times between the hours of three o'clock in the morning and twelve o'clock midnight, keep the cargo of such vessel so enclosed or covered as to prevent the emission of any offensive odors. The owner, captain or master of any vessel, or any other person responsible for any violation of the provisions of this section, shall be fined not less than two hundred dollars for each violation; and each day's continuance or repetition of such violation shall constitute a separate offense. State's attorneys and assistant state's attorneys or deputy assistant state's attorneys of the Superior Court and all other informing officers in their respective jurisdictions shall ascertain and prosecute for violations of the provisions of this section. Prosecution for any such violation may be maintained before the superior court in any judicial district whose territorial limits adjoin the waters affected by the provisions hereof.(1949 Rev., S. 3862; 1961, P.A. 517, S. 57; P.A. 74-183, S. 225, 291; P.A. 76-436, S. 194, 681; P.A. 78-280, S. 1, 2, 127.)History: 1961 act deleted obsolete references to prosecuting grand jurors, cities' attorneys and town, city, borough or police court, substituting circuit court; P.A. 74-183 replaced circuit court with court of common pleas and “circuit” with “county or judicial district”; P.A. 76-436 replaced court of common pleas with superior court and “prosecuting attorneys” with “state's attorneys and assistant state's attorneys or deputy assistant state's attorneys”, effective July 1, 1978; P.A. 78-280 deleted reference to counties; Sec. 19-97 transferred to Sec. 19a-224 in 1983.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-225. (Formerly Sec. 19-98) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368e - Municipal Health Authorities|Section 19a-225. (Formerly Sec. 19-98) - Manufacture and treatment of oil and garbage. Processing of fish for animal consumption in Stonington.

 No person or corporation shall, within the town of Waterford, East Lyme, Old Lyme or Stonington, or in any waters adjacent thereto, engage in the business of manufacturing from fish or garbage any oil, guano, fertilizer or phosphate, or in the business of rendering or treating garbage or other filthy or noxious matter, or in the town of Stonington, engage in the business of processing of fish for animal consumption. This section shall not apply to the continuance of any such business of any person or corporation whose plant within any of said towns had been erected prior to May 1, 1909, and was actively employed in the same specific business during the year 1908, while such business continued to be confined to the property owned by such person or corporation on said May 1, 1909, or to the treatment and disposal within any of said towns of garbage or other filthy or noxious matter originating within such town, or to the filleting and freezing of fish into food for human consumption within the town of Stonington.(1949 Rev., S. 4146; September, 1950, S. 2129d; 1967, P.A. 330, S. 1.)History: 1967 act modified provisions relating to Stonington; Sec. 19-98 transferred to Sec. 19a-225 in 1983.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-226. (Formerly Sec. 19-99) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368e - Municipal Health Authorities|Section 19a-226. (Formerly Sec. 19-99) - Unloading and transportation of fertilizers.

 Unless otherwise provided, city and borough directors of health shall have power to make orders and regulations controlling the time during which, and the manner in which, manure and other fertilizers may be unloaded from vessels or cars and transported upon the highways in their several jurisdictions.(1949 Rev., S. 3861.)History: Sec. 19-99 transferred to Sec. 19a-226 in 1983.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-227. (Formerly Sec. 19-101) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368e - Municipal Health Authorities|Section 19a-227. (Formerly Sec. 19-101) - Anchorage of houseboats.

 The director of health of any town, city or borough may designate limits within the navigable waters of the state, outside the channel and adjacent to any public or private bathing beach or bathing house, within which limits houseboats or other vessels used by the owners or possessors thereof as dwelling places shall not, while so used and occupied as dwelling places, be anchored or moored; and such town, city or borough director of health shall, upon the written application of five or more persons owning property adjoining any bathing beach or bathing house within such navigable waters, designate such limits. After limits have been designated as aforesaid, no person having immediate charge of any such houseboat or other vessel, while used and occupied as a dwelling place, shall anchor or moor the same or keep the same anchored or moored within the limits so designated.(1949 Rev., S. 3864.)History: Sec. 19-101 transferred to Sec. 19a-227 in 1983.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-228. (Formerly Sec. 19-102) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368e - Municipal Health Authorities|Section 19a-228. (Formerly Sec. 19-102) - Penalty for anchoring within designated limits.

 Any person having immediate charge of any such houseboat or other vessel, while so used as a dwelling place, who anchors or moors the same or keeps the same anchored or moored within the limits so designated after twenty-four hours have elapsed from the time that notice has been served as hereinafter provided and within a period of two months from the service of such notice, shall be guilty of a class D misdemeanor for each day during any part of which he keeps such houseboat or other vessel so anchored or moored within the limits so designated. Service of notice may be made by any officer or indifferent person by leaving with or reading to the person having immediate charge of any such houseboat or other vessel a copy of this section, together with a description in writing of the limits which have been so designated.(1949 Rev., S. 3864; P.A. 12-80, S. 68.)History: Sec. 19-102 transferred to Sec. 19a-228 in 1983; P.A. 12-80 replaced penalty of a fine of not more than $50 or imprisonment of not more than 30 days with a class D misdemeanor.