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2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 28 - Civil Preparedness and Emergency Services › Chapter 517 - Civil Preparedness, Emergency Management and Homeland Security › Section 28-13. - Immunity from liability. Penalty for denial of access to property during civil preparedness emergency.

(a) Neither the state nor any political subdivision of the state nor, except in cases of wilful misconduct, the agents or representatives of the state or any political subdivision thereof nor any member of the civil preparedness forces of the state nor any person authorized by such civil preparedness forces or by any member of such civil preparedness forces complying with or attempting to comply with this chapter or any order or regulation promulgated pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, or pursuant to any ordinance relating to blackout or other precautionary measures enacted by any political subdivision of the state nor any person employed by or authorized to assist any agency of the federal government in the prevention or mitigation of any major disaster or emergency, shall be liable for the death of or injury to persons or for damage to property as a result of any such activity. The Attorney General shall appear for and defend the state, any political subdivision of the state and the agents or representatives of the state or any political subdivision thereof or any member of the civil preparedness forces of the state or any other person exempted from liability for his acts under this section in any civil action brought for the death of or injury to persons or for damage to property as a result of any civil preparedness activity.
(b) Any person, corporation, partnership or association who denies access to property owned or under the control of such entity to any person acting in accordance with this chapter during a civil preparedness emergency shall be fined not less than fifty dollars or more than five hundred dollars.
(June, 1951, S. 1917d; P.A. 73-544, S. 13; P.A. 79-417, S. 4; P.A. 07-217, S. 132.)
History: P.A. 73-544 substituted “civil preparedness” for “civil defense” throughout; P.A. 79-417 extended exemption from liability and subsequent defense by attorney general to persons authorized by civil preparedness forces or any of its members to act within provisions of the chapter and to persons employed by or authorized to assist agency of federal government in cases of major disasters or emergencies and added new Subsec. (b) providing for fines for those who deny access to property for those acting in accordance with provisions of chapter; P.A. 07-217 made technical changes in Subsec. (b), effective July 12, 2007.
Section extends state's sovereign immunity, including both immunity from suit and liability, to political subdivisions and such immunity applies to activities discussed therein, including measures to be taken in preparation for, during, and following a major disaster or emergency. 333 C. 30.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 28 - Civil Preparedness and Emergency Services › Chapter 517 - Civil Preparedness, Emergency Management and Homeland Security › Section 28-14a. - Compensation of volunteers with volunteer organizations that conduct homeland security drills. Compensation for injury, disability or death.

(a) For the purposes of this section, “volunteer organization” means an organization that (1) provides first responder, rescue or emergency medical transportation services, or is a volunteer fire company that provides emergency medical or rescue services, as part of its duties, and (2) relies exclusively or primarily upon volunteers to provide such services.
(b) The Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection shall compensate each volunteer with any volunteer organization that conducts a homeland security drill authorized by said department that exceeds twenty-four consecutive hours in length who participates in such drill and is otherwise employed, at the same rate as such volunteer is compensated in his or her employment in the public or private sector, provided the payment by said department shall be reduced by any amount of compensation such volunteer receives from his or her employer for such drill.
(c) In the event any such volunteer is injured, disabled or dies in the course of any such drill, such volunteer shall be compensated in accordance with the provisions of chapter 568 to the same extent that he or she would have been compensated for such injury, disability or death occurring in the course of his or her employment in the public or private sector.
(P.A. 05-265, S. 2; P.A. 11-51, S. 134.)
History: Pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection” in Subsec. (b), effective July 1, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 28 - Civil Preparedness and Emergency Services › Chapter 517 - Civil Preparedness, Emergency Management and Homeland Security › Section 28-15. - Acceptance of federal or other assistance. Nondiscrimination.

(a) Whenever the federal government or any agency or officer thereof or any person, firm or corporation offers to the state, or through the state to any political subdivision thereof, services, equipment, supplies, materials or funds by way of gift, grant or loan, for purposes of civil preparedness or as assistance for the response or recovery activities of any civil preparedness force, the state, acting through the Governor, or such political subdivision, acting through its chief executive officer, may accept such offer. Upon such acceptance, the Governor of the state or executive officer of such political subdivision may authorize any officer of the state or of the political subdivision, as the case may be, to receive such services, equipment, supplies, materials or funds on behalf of the state or such political subdivision and subject to the terms of the offer and the rules and regulations, if any, of the agency making the offer.
(b) No person shall discriminate on the basis of race, color, religious creed, sex, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, ancestry or economic status in carrying out any provision of this chapter or any federal major disaster or emergency assistance function in this state.
(June, 1951, S. 1919d; P.A. 73-544, S. 15; P.A. 79-417, S. 5; P.A. 11-55, S. 14.)
History: P.A. 73-544 substituted “civil preparedness” for “civil defense” where appearing; P.A. 79-417 added to the offers for purposes of civil preparedness that may be accepted by governor “or as assistance for the response or recovery activities ...” and added as new Subsec. (b) ban against discrimination; P.A. 11-55 amended Subsec. (b) to prohibit discrimination on basis of gender identity or expression.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 28 - Civil Preparedness and Emergency Services › Chapter 517 - Civil Preparedness, Emergency Management and Homeland Security › Section 28-16. - Stockpile of supplies.

The commissioner is empowered, in anticipation of war, attack, sabotage or other hostile action or any disaster, to purchase and maintain a stockpile of medical supplies, blankets, food and provisions, fuel, equipment and any other supplies which in his opinion are necessary and desirable to afford relief and assistance to the people of the state in an emergency.
(June, 1951, S. 1921d; November, 1955, S. N184; P.A. 75-643, S. 3; P.A. 04-219, S. 20.)
History: P.A. 75-643 substituted “any” for “natural” before “disaster”; P.A. 04-219 substituted commissioner for director, effective January 1, 2005.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 28 - Civil Preparedness and Emergency Services › Chapter 517 - Civil Preparedness, Emergency Management and Homeland Security › Section 28-17. - Employees not to be discharged for civil preparedness activity or eligibility for induction.

No employee shall be discharged because he is a member of any organization engaged in civil preparedness or because he is eligible for induction into the armed forces of the United States.
(June, 1951, S. 1922d; P.A. 73-544, S. 16.)
History: P.A. 73-544 substituted “civil preparedness” for “civil defense”.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 28 - Civil Preparedness and Emergency Services › Chapter 517 - Civil Preparedness, Emergency Management and Homeland Security › Section 28-18. - Execution of orders and regulations.

All civil preparedness forces established pursuant to this chapter and the officers thereof shall execute such orders and regulations as are made under the authority of this chapter. Each civil preparedness organization shall have available for inspection at its office all such orders and regulations.
(June, 1951, S. 1923d; P.A. 73-544, S. 17.)
History: P.A. 73-544 substituted “civil preparedness” for “civil defense” where appearing.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 28 - Civil Preparedness and Emergency Services › Chapter 517 - Civil Preparedness, Emergency Management and Homeland Security › Section 28-20. - Agreements for storage of federally-owned property.

The commissioner and the director of any local civil preparedness organization may make agreements with the federal government or any agency or officer thereof to provide storage space on state or local premises, as the case may be, for federally-owned supplies and equipment to be used for civil preparedness purposes, provided such space shall be available without additional cost to the state and provided the commissioner or such director may revoke any such agreement upon thirty days' notice if such space is required for state or local use.
(1953, S. 1925d; P.A. 73-544, S. 18; P.A. 90-230, S. 41, 101; P.A. 04-219, S. 21.)
History: P.A. 73-544 substituted “civil preparedness” for “civil defense” where appearing; P.A. 90-230 and editorial change corrected reference to director of emergency management; P.A. 04-219 substituted commissioner for state director of emergency management and made a technical change, effective January 1, 2005.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 28 - Civil Preparedness and Emergency Services › Chapter 517 - Civil Preparedness, Emergency Management and Homeland Security › Section 28-21. - Use of premises as shelter.

Any person owning or controlling real estate or other premises, together with his successors in interest, if any, who voluntarily and without compensation grants to the state or any municipality a license or privilege, or otherwise permits the designation or use of the whole or any part of such real estate or premises, for the purpose of sheltering persons during an actual, impending, mock or practice attack or other disaster shall not be civilly liable for negligently causing the death of, or injury to, any person using such real estate or premises for the purpose of shelter during such an attack, or for loss of, or damage to, the property of such person.
(1953, S. 1926d; P.A. 75-643, S. 4.)
History: P.A. 75-643 added “or other disaster” to application of section.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 28 - Civil Preparedness and Emergency Services › Chapter 517 - Civil Preparedness, Emergency Management and Homeland Security › Section 28-22. - Penalty.

Any person who, wilfully and without lawful authority, destroys or injures any device, wires or equipment used or maintained for transmitting or signalling an air raid warning or alarm or makes connection with or in any way tampers or interferes with the same, or any person who reports, transmits or circulates, or causes to be reported, transmitted or circulated, a false alarm or warning of an air raid or of any enemy action, knowing that the same is false, or any person who unlawfully poses as or impersonates a police officer, air raid warden or other person engaged in civilian preparedness emergency service, or who unlawfully and in violation of federal or state regulations manufactures, sells, offers for sale, wears or uses the uniform, insignia or identification, or any simulation thereof, of any such police officer, warden or other person so engaged, or who wilfully impedes, interferes with or otherwise obstructs any lawful civil preparedness activity or other preparedness function of the national or state government or of the government of any political subdivision of the state, or who violates any provision of this chapter, shall be guilty of a class D felony.
(June, 1951, S. 1920d; P.A. 73-544, S. 19; P.A. 13-258, S. 93.)
History: P.A. 73-544 substituted “civil preparedness” for “civil defense” throughout; P.A. 13-258 changed penalty from fine of not more than $1,000 or imprisonment of not more than 5 years to a class D felony.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 28 - Civil Preparedness and Emergency Services › Chapter 518 - (Interstate Civil Defense and Disaster Compact) Emergency Management Assistance Compact › Section 28-23. - Interstate Civil Defense and Disaster Compact.

Section 28-23 is repealed, effective October 1, 2000.
(1951, S. 1928d; P.A. 75-311; P.A. 00-32, S. 2.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 28 - Civil Preparedness and Emergency Services › Chapter 518a - Emergency Telecommunications › Section 28-25a. - Responsibilities of telephone companies and municipalities.

(a)(1) In order to establish the state-wide enhanced 9-1-1 service, every telephone company providing service within the state shall provide, not later than December 31, 1989, selective routing, automatic number identification and automatic location identification in compliance with a time schedule approved by the division.
(2) In order to establish the next generation 9-1-1 telecommunication system, every telephone company providing service within the state shall provide selective routing, automatic number identification and automatic location identification, and may provide the latitude and longitude of any telephone or device used to place a 9-1-1 call, in compliance with a time schedule approved by the division.
(b) Each municipality shall, not later than December 31, 1989, establish and operate a public safety answering point which utilizes enhanced 9-1-1 network features.
(c) No provision of section 28-25, this section and sections 28-25b, 28-26, 28-27, 28-27a, 28-28, 28-28a, 28-28b, 28-29, 28-29a and 28-29b shall be construed to prohibit or discourage in any manner the formation of multiagency, multijurisdictional or regional public safety answering points. Any public safety answering point established pursuant to said sections may serve the jurisdiction of more than one public agency or a segment of the jurisdiction of a municipality.
(P.A. 84-416, S. 2, 15; P.A. 90-230, S. 43, 101; P.A. 93-206, S. 7, 16; P.A. 16-150, S. 3.)
History: P.A. 90-230 deleted internal references in Subsec. (c); P.A. 93-206 amended Subsec. (a) to substitute “office” for “bureau”, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 16-150 amended Subsec. (a) by designating existing provision re enhanced 9-1-1 service as Subdiv. (1), deleting “features as a tariffed service” and replacing “office” with “division” therein, and adding Subdiv. (2) re next generation 9-1-1 telecommunication system.
Cited. 223 C. 731.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 28 - Civil Preparedness and Emergency Services › Chapter 518a - Emergency Telecommunications › Section 28-26. - Conversion of coin telephones for provision of enhanced 9-1-1 service.

As enhanced 9-1-1 service becomes available, each telephone company shall convert, in accordance with an electronic switching systems modernization schedule submitted to and approved by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, each coin telephone within areas served by such enhanced 9-1-1 service to dial tone first capability, which shall allow a caller to dial 9-1-1 without first inserting a coin or paying any other charge. Each telephone company shall prominently display instructions on how to access the enhanced 9-1-1 system on those coin telephones which have been converted to dial tone first capability.
(P.A. 84-416, S. 4, 15; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)
History: Pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority”, effective July 1, 2011.
Cited. 223 C. 731.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 28 - Civil Preparedness and Emergency Services › Chapter 518a - Emergency Telecommunications › Section 28-27a. - Municipalities and public safety answering points to submit 9-1-1 service utilization plan.

(a) Any municipality proposing the creation of a public safety answering point or any public safety answering point proposing any change to the operation, location, jurisdiction or utilized public safety agencies of such public safety answering point shall submit a proposed 9-1-1 service utilization plan to the division for its review and approval prior to implementation. The division shall review each proposed plan to determine if it meets the requirements of sections 28-25, 28-25a, 28-25b, 28-26, 28-27, 28-28, 28-28a, 28-28b, 28-29, 28-29a and 28-29b and the technical and operational standards established pursuant to section 28-27.
(b) On or before January 1, 2017, and annually thereafter, each public safety answering point shall certify to the division, in such manner and form as prescribed by the division, that the information contained in the 9-1-1 service utilization plan is accurate.
(c) The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection, in consultation with the commission, shall adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 concerning the content of a 9-1-1 service utilization plan.
(P.A. 84-416, S. 6, 15; P.A. 90-230, S. 45, 101; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-12, S. 6, 10; P.A. 93-206, S. 10, 16; P.A. 11-51, S. 134; P.A. 16-150, S. 6.)
History: P.A. 90-230 deleted internal references in Subsec. (a); May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-12 amended Subsec. (b) to require public safety commissioner to adopt regulations, in consultation with commission, in lieu of bureau, subject to review and approval of commission; P.A. 93-206 substituted “office” for “bureau”, effective July 1, 1993; pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection” in Subsec. (b), effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 16-150 amended Subsec. (a) by adding provision re public safety answering point, replacing “office” with “division” and deleting provision re filing municipal plan with telephone company, amended Subsec. (b) by deleting provision re submitting plan on or before December 31, 1986, and adding provision re annual certification, redesignated existing provision in Subsec. (b) re regulations as Subsec. (c) and amended same by replacing “final” with “9-1-1 service utilization”, and made conforming changes.
Cited. 223 C. 731.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 28 - Civil Preparedness and Emergency Services › Chapter 518a - Emergency Telecommunications › Section 28-28. - Emergency service requests from outside of jurisdiction. Advertisement of emergency telephone numbers other than 9-1-1 prohibited.

(a) A public safety agency which receives a request for emergency service outside of its jurisdiction shall promptly forward the request to the public safety answering point or public safety agency responsible for that geographical area. Any emergency unit dispatched to a location outside its jurisdiction in response to such a request shall render service to the requesting party until relieved by the public safety agency responsible for that geographical area.
(b) Municipalities may enter into written cooperative agreements to carry out the provisions of subsection (a) of this section.
(c) No public safety agency shall advertise or otherwise promote the use of any telephone number for emergency response services other than “9-1-1”, except when enhanced 9-1-1 service or the next generation 9-1-1 telecommunication system is not in operation.
(P.A. 84-416, S. 7, 15; P.A. 89-118, S. 2; P.A. 16-150, S. 7.)
History: P.A. 89-118 added a new Subsec. (c), prohibiting public safety agencies from advertising or promoting use of any emergency telephone number other than 9-1-1; P.A. 16-150 amended Subsec. (c) by adding reference to next generation 9-1-1 telecommunication system.
Cited. 223 C. 731.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 28 - Civil Preparedness and Emergency Services › Chapter 518a - Emergency Telecommunications › Section 28-29. - Institution of civil proceedings by Attorney General.

The Attorney General may, at the request of the division, or on his or her own initiative, institute civil proceedings against any municipality or telephone company to enforce the provisions of sections 28-25, 28-25a, 28-25b, 28-26, 28-27, 28-27a, 28-28, 28-28a, 28-28b, 28-29a and 28-29b.
(P.A. 84-416, S. 11, 15; P.A. 90-230, S. 47, 101; P.A. 93-206, S. 11, 16; P.A. 16-150, S. 9.)
History: P.A. 90-230 deleted internal references; P.A. 93-206 substituted “office” for “bureau”, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 16-150 replaced “office” with “division” and made a technical change.
Cited. 223 C. 731.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 28 - Civil Preparedness and Emergency Services › Chapter 518a - Emergency Telecommunications › Section 28-29b. - Annual report to General Assembly.

The division, subject to the review and approval of the commission, shall submit a report to the General Assembly, not later than February fifteenth, annually, concerning its progress in carrying out the purposes of sections 28-25, 28-25a, 28-25b, 28-26, 28-27, 28-27a, 28-28, 28-28a, 28-28b, 28-29 and 28-29a.
(P.A. 84-416, S. 13, 15; P.A. 90-230, S. 49, 101; P.A. 93-206, S. 13, 16; P.A. 16-150, S. 11.)
History: P.A. 90-230 deleted internal references; P.A. 93-206 substituted “office” for “bureau”, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 16-150 replaced “office” with “division”.
Cited. 223 C. 731.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 28 - Civil Preparedness and Emergency Services › Chapter 518a - Emergency Telecommunications › Section 28-30a. - Enhanced 9-1-1 Telecommunications Fund.

(a) There is established a fund to be known as the “Enhanced 9-1-1 Telecommunications Fund”. The fund shall contain any moneys required by law to be deposited in the fund, including, but not limited to, any federal funds collected pursuant to subsection (d) of section 28-24, fees assessed against subscribers of local telephone service and subscribers of commercial mobile radio services pursuant to section 16-256g and prepaid wireless E 9-1-1 fees collected pursuant to section 28-30e. The Enhanced 9-1-1 Telecommunications Fund shall be held separate and apart from all other moneys, funds and accounts. Interest derived from the investment of the fund shall be credited to the assets of the fund. Any balance remaining in the fund at the end of any fiscal year shall be carried forward in the fund for the fiscal year next succeeding.
(b) The State Treasurer, in consultation with the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, shall invest the moneys deposited in the Enhanced 9-1-1 Telecommunications Fund in the Short-Term Investment Fund authorized under section 3-27a or investments in which the Treasurer may invest assets of the trust funds which are listed in section 3-13c.
(c) The resources of the Enhanced 9-1-1 Telecommunications Fund shall be used solely to fund the expenses, as determined by the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection in accordance with subsection (c) of section 28-24, associated with the enhanced emergency 9-1-1 program. Any surplus shall be carried forward to successive fiscal years and used for the sole purpose of administering the enhanced emergency 9-1-1 program.
(P.A. 89-259, S. 2, 5; P.A. 96-150, S. 2, 5; P.A. 11-51, S. 134; P.A. 12-153, S. 6; P.A. 13-32, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 96-150 changed “Public Safety Telecommunicator Training Fund” to “Enhanced 9-1-1 Telecommunications Fund” and specified use of fund, effective May 31, 1996; pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Emergency Management and Homeland Security” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection” in Subsec. (c), effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 12-153 amended Subsec. (a) by adding provision re revenues from prepaid wireless E 9-1-1 fee, effective January 1, 2013; P.A. 13-32 amended Subsec. (a) to replace “revenues from the prepaid wireless E 9-1-1 fee imposed pursuant to section 28-30e” with “prepaid wireless E 9-1-1 fees collected pursuant to section 28-30e” and make technical changes, effective July 1, 2013.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 28 - Civil Preparedness and Emergency Services › Chapter 518a - Emergency Telecommunications › Section 28-30c. - Active prepaid wireless telephone service providers. Assessment of subscriber fee.

Section 28-30c is repealed, effective January 1, 2013.
(P.A. 07-106, S. 2; P.A. 12-153, S. 8.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 28 - Civil Preparedness and Emergency Services › Chapter 518a - Emergency Telecommunications › Section 28-30d. - VOIP service providers. Assessment of subscriber fee.

Each VOIP service provider shall assess a monthly fee against each subscriber to fund the enhanced emergency 9-1-1 program in accordance with section 16-256g. Each such provider shall comply with all of the requirements of 47 CFR 9 and this chapter, provided the provisions of this chapter are not addressed by, or not inconsistent with, federal law or regulations, regarding the provision of enhanced 9-1-1 services and the next generation 9-1-1 telecommunication system in the state of Connecticut. Such fee shall be collected from the subscriber in any manner consistent with the voice over Internet protocol provider's existing operating or technological abilities and remitted to the office of the State Treasurer for deposit into the Enhanced 9-1-1 Telecommunications Fund established pursuant to section 28-30a not later than the fifteenth day of each month.
(P.A. 07-106, S. 3; P.A. 16-150, S. 14.)
History: P.A. 07-106 effective July 1, 2007; P.A. 16-150 added reference to next generation 9-1-1 telecommunication system.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 28 - Civil Preparedness and Emergency Services › Chapter 518a - Emergency Telecommunications › Section 28-30e. - Assessment and collection of prepaid wireless E 9-1-1 fee.

(a) Each consumer shall be assessed a prepaid wireless E 9-1-1 fee. Such fee shall be equal to the fee determined by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority in accordance with subsection (a) of section 16-256g for each retail transaction. For the purposes of this section, if a consumer purchase includes multiple prepaid wireless telecommunications services, each such individual service shall constitute a retail transaction.
(b) Any seller who is a party to a retail transaction within this state with a consumer shall collect the fee described in subsection (a) of this section from such consumer for each such retail transaction. The seller shall disclose to the consumer the amount of such assessed fee in an invoice, a receipt, or other similar document, or post such amount conspicuously on the seller's Internet web site or on a sign conspicuously displayed to the consumer at the point of sale.
(c) For the purposes of subsection (b) of this section, a retail transaction made in the presence of the consumer at the place of business of the seller shall be treated as occurring within this state if such place of business is within the state, and any other retail transaction shall be treated as occurring in this state if the retail transaction is treated as occurring in this state under subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of section 12-407 for the purposes of the sales and use tax.
(d) The consumer shall be liable for any prepaid wireless E 9-1-1 fee. There shall be no liability on the part of the seller or provider, except the seller shall be liable to remit any prepaid wireless E 9-1-1 fees that the seller collects from any consumer, pursuant to section 28-30f, including, but not limited to, any such fee that the seller is required to collect but does not separately state on an invoice, receipt or other similar document provided to the consumer, as required by subsection (b) of this section.
(e) The amount of the prepaid wireless E 9-1-1 fee that a seller collects from a consumer shall not be included in the base for measuring any tax, fee, surcharge or other charge that the state, any political subdivision of the state, or any intergovernmental agency imposes on such seller, provided the seller separately stated such amount on an invoice, receipt, or other similar document provided to the consumer.
(P.A. 12-153, S. 2; P.A. 13-32, S. 3.)
History: P.A. 12-153 effective January 1, 2013; P.A. 13-32 amended Subsec. (a) to replace “the rate determined” with “the fee determined”, effective July 1, 2013.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 28 - Civil Preparedness and Emergency Services › Chapter 518a - Emergency Telecommunications › Section 28-30f. - Seller to remit prepaid wireless E 9-1-1 fee to Department of Revenue Services. Procedures.

(a) Any seller who collects a prepaid wireless E 9-1-1 fee shall remit such fee to the Department of Revenue Services at such time and in such manner as required by chapter 219. The department shall establish registration and payment procedures that substantially coincide with the registration and payment procedures that apply to retail sellers under chapter 219.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter 219, a seller who collects a prepaid wireless E 9-1-1 fee may retain one per cent of such fee.
(c) The audit and appeal procedures applicable under chapter 219 shall apply to each prepaid wireless E 9-1-1 fee.
(d) The department shall establish procedures by which a seller may document that a sale is not a retail transaction, which procedures shall substantially coincide with the procedures for documenting sale for resale transactions pursuant to section 12-410.
(e) The department shall, not later than thirty days after receiving any prepaid wireless E 9-1-1 fee, transfer such fee to the office of the State Treasurer for deposit into the Enhanced 9-1-1 Telecommunications Fund, established pursuant to section 28-30a. Any revenue from the prepaid wireless E 9-1-1 fee shall be subject to any restrictions provided by section 28-30a. The department may make a one-time deduction of not more than one hundred twenty thousand dollars from such fund and may use such amount to reimburse its direct costs of administering the collection and remittance of prepaid wireless E 9-1-1 fees.
(P.A. 12-153, S. 3; P.A. 13-32, S. 4; P.A. 21-70, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 12-153 effective January 1, 2013; P.A. 13-32 amended Subsec. (a) to replace “E 9-1-1 charge” with “E 9-1-1 fee”, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 21-70 amended Subsec. (d) by deleting “of prepaid wireless telecommunications service” and made a technical change in Subsec. (e).
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 528 - Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection › Section 29-1cc. - Bond authorization for eligible nonprofit organization security infrastructure competitive grant program.

(a) For the purposes described in subsection (b) of this section, the State Bond Commission shall have the power from time to time to authorize the issuance of bonds of the state in one or more series and in principal amounts not exceeding in the aggregate twenty million dollars, provided five million dollars of said authorization shall be effective July 1, 2022.
(b) The proceeds of the sale of said bonds, to the extent of the amount stated in subsection (a) of this section, shall be used by the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection for the purpose of the eligible nonprofit organization security infrastructure competitive grant program, established pursuant to section 29-1bb.
(c) All provisions of section 3-20, or the exercise of any right or power granted thereby, which are not inconsistent with the provisions of this section are hereby adopted and shall apply to all bonds authorized by the State Bond Commission pursuant to this section, and temporary notes in anticipation of the money to be derived from the sale of any such bonds so authorized may be issued in accordance with said section 3-20 and from time to time renewed. Such bonds shall mature at such time or times not exceeding twenty years from their respective dates as may be provided in or pursuant to the resolution or resolutions of the State Bond Commission authorizing such bonds. None of said bonds shall be authorized except upon a finding by the State Bond Commission that there has been filed with it a request for such authorization which is signed by or on behalf of the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management and states such terms and conditions as said commission, in its discretion, may require. Said bonds issued pursuant to this section shall be general obligations of the state and the full faith and credit of the state of Connecticut are pledged for the payment of the principal of and interest on said bonds as the same become due, and accordingly and as part of the contract of the state with the holders of said bonds, appropriation of all amounts necessary for punctual payment of such principal and interest is hereby made, and the State Treasurer shall pay such principal and interest as the same become due.
(P.A. 20-1 effective March 12, 2020; P.A. 21-111, S. 91.)
History: P.A. 20-1 effective March 12, 2020; P.A. 21-111 amended Subsec. (a) to increase aggregate authorization from $5,000,000 to $20,000,000, of which $5,000,000 is effective July 1, 2022, effective July 1, 2021.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 528 - Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection › Section 29-1d. - Local crime stoppers program. Definition. Evidence of certain communications not admissible.

(a) As used in this section, “local crime stoppers program” means a private, nonprofit organization operated on less than a state-wide level, which accepts and expends donations for rewards to persons who report to the organization information concerning criminal activity, and which forwards the information to the appropriate law enforcement agency.
(b) Evidence of a communication between a person submitting a report of criminal activity to a local crime stoppers program and the person who accepted the report on behalf of the local crime stoppers program is not admissible in a court or an administrative proceeding.
(P.A. 84-540, S. 1–3, 7; P.A. 95-12.)
History: P.A. 95-12 deleted Subsecs. (b) to (g), inclusive, re Crime Stoppers Advisory Council, relettering remaining Subsec. as (b) and deleting references to the council.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 528 - Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection › Section 29-1dd. - Prevention of online abuse grant program.

(a) As used in this section:
(1) “Eligible entity” means any of the following located in this state: (A) A local or regional school district, (B) a historical society, (C) a tax-exempt entity registered with the office of the Secretary of the State, (D) a government agency, (E) a constituent unit of the state system of higher education, (F) a public library, or (G) any other entity operating under another entity described in this subdivision; and
(2) “Online abuse” means the following acts, when conducted using any interactive computer service: (A) Speech or conduct motivated by hatred, prejudice or bigotry towards a person or group based on the person's actual or perceived religion, national origin, alienage, color, race, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation or disability, (B) harassment, (C) stalking, (D) swatting, (E) doxing, or (F) an assault.
(b) There is established a grant program to provide educational and training opportunities with the goal of preventing online abuse and informing individuals about identifying, reporting, responding to and avoiding online abuse. The grant program shall be administered by the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, in consultation with the State-Wide Hate Crimes Advisory Council, established under section 51-279f.
(c) Not later than three months after receiving funds from the state for any fiscal year, the administrator of the grant program shall issue a request for proposals from any eligible entity. Each response to the request for proposals shall: Specify the types of online abuse that the entity proposes to address in accordance with the purposes of the program under subsection (b) of this section; the methods used to achieve the goals of the program; other specific goals of the eligible entity; the target audience of the training and information that the entity would provide; whether the eligible entity is replicating a program found to have a high likelihood of success as determined by a cost-benefit analysis appearing in a peer reviewed academic journal; and the amount, if any, of matching funds the eligible entity will contribute.
(d) The department may award grants for any programming or service that prevents online abuse or furthers the other goals of the program under subsection (b) of this section, including training teachers or professionals within schools, archiving, public murals, curriculum development and marketing. Eligible entities may use the funds awarded under this subsection collectively, including regionally, through coordinated efforts and conferences that achieve the goals of the program.
(e) The department may only award a grant to an eligible entity in an amount not to exceed thirty thousand dollars during any fiscal year.
(P.A. 22-82, S. 6.)
History: P.A. 22-82 effective July 1, 2022.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 528 - Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection › Section 29-1ee. - Speed enforcement on rural roads grant program.

On and after July 1, 2022, the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection shall, within available resources, administer a grant program to provide grants-in-aid to eligible municipalities for speed enforcement activities on rural roads. Any municipality that has a population of less than twenty-five thousand that has a law enforcement unit or resident state trooper may apply for such grants in such manner as the department prescribes. The department shall award grants of up to five thousand dollars to eligible municipalities, and may award not more than a total of ten grants to any such municipality. The department shall continue to award grants until all resources dedicated to such grant program have been expended.
(P.A. 22-118, S. 78.)
History: P.A. 22-118 effective May 7, 2022.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 528 - Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection › Section 29-1ff. - Pilot program re the collection of fire and rescue service data.

(a) The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection, in consultation with the Commissioner of Administrative Services, the State Fire Marshal, the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management and the chairman of the Commission on Fire Prevention and Control, shall, within available appropriations, establish and administer a pilot program for the purpose of implementing a data collection system related to fire and rescue service delivery in the state. For a period of three years commencing from July 1, 2022, the commissioner shall administer such pilot program in any local or regional fire department or district that has self-identified as challenged or in crisis regarding the delivery of fire and rescue services.
(b) Any local or regional fire department or district may apply for participation in the data collection program. Any application submitted pursuant to this subsection shall include a written statement by the fire department or district that it is currently challenged or in crisis regarding the delivery of fire and rescue services.
(c) Notwithstanding subsection (a) or (b) of this section, the Tolland County Mutual Aid Emergency Communications Center, the Quinebaug Valley Emergency Communications Center, the Litchfield County Dispatch, the Valley Shore Emergency Communications Center and the Northwest Connecticut Public Safety Communications Center may elect to participate in the data collection program upon request.
(d) Not later than sixty days after the commissioner approves the application of any local or regional fire department or district pursuant to subsection (b) of this section, the commissioner shall admit such fire department or district to the data collection program.
(e) For the purposes of data collection pursuant to such pilot program, the commissioner shall either utilize the National Fire Operations Reporting System or develop a data collection system capable of real-time tracking information relevant to fire and rescue responses, including, but not limited to (1) call processing time, (2) alarm handling, and (3) turnout time. The commissioner shall provide to any fire department or district participating in the program monthly reports of the data collected for such fire department or district pursuant to the program.
(f) On or before July 1, 2023, and annually thereafter, the commissioner shall conduct an evaluation of the fire and rescue data collection pilot program. Such evaluation shall address the overall effectiveness of the pilot program in collecting the relevant data. The commissioner shall submit, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, such evaluation and any recommendations for legislation to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to public safety and planning and development.
(P.A. 22-118, S. 210.)
History: P.A. 22-118 effective July 1, 2022.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 528 - Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection › Section 29-1g. - Child support enforcement. Special policemen. Appointment. Powers.

The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection may appoint not more than six persons nominated by the Commissioner of Social Services as special policemen in the Office of Child Support Services of the Department of Social Services for the service of any warrant or capias mittimus issued by the courts on child support matters. Such appointees, having been sworn, shall serve at the pleasure of the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection and, during such tenure, shall have all the powers conferred on state policemen and state marshals.
(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-8, S. 58, 63; P.A. 93-262, S. 1, 87; P.A. 00-99, S. 72, 154; P.A. 06-149, S. 6; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-5, S. 45; P.A. 11-51, S. 134; P.A. 16-13, S. 6.)
History: P.A. 93-262 authorized substitution of commissioner and department of social services for commissioner and department of human resources, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 00-99 replaced reference to sheriffs and their deputies with state marshals, effective December 1, 2000; P.A. 06-149 increased number of special policeman from 2 to 4 and made a technical change; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-5 changed maximum number of special policemen appointments from 4 to 6, effective October 5, 2009; pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection”, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 16-13 replaced “Bureau of Child Support Enforcement” with “Office of Child Support Services”, effective May 6, 2016.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 528 - Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection › Section 29-1h. - Child Protection Network program.

The Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection shall study the feasibility of establishing a program to assemble and distribute informational packages on the “Child Protection Network” to each municipality that requests such packages. Such program would be patterned after the Child Protection Network program established by the town of Middlefield and would include, but not be limited to, a child-identification system, instructions for participating in such system, informational brochures and signs stating, “NOTICE - THIS IS A KID PROTECTION AREA. WE CALL 911.” Each municipality requesting such a package would pay a reasonable fee to be determined by the department.
(P.A. 95-225, S. 47; P.A. 11-51, S. 134.)
History: Pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Department of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 528 - Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection › Section 29-1i. - Missing adult persons.

(a) For the purposes of this section and section 7-294o, “law enforcement agency” means the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection or any municipal police department, and “adult person” means an individual who has attained the age of eighteen years.
(b) A law enforcement agency shall accept without delay any report of a missing adult person.
(c) The unit of the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection that investigates missing adult persons shall, as appropriate, enter all collected information relating to a missing adult person case into the National Crime Information Center database and any other applicable federal database with all practicable speed.
(P.A. 11-51, S. 134; 11-102, S. 1.)
History: Pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Division of State Police within the Department of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 528 - Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection › Section 29-1j. - Public safety data network.

(a) The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection, in consultation with the Chief Information Officer of the Division of Information Technology within the Department of Administrative Services, shall establish a public safety data network in an electronic format that allows for the exchange of information among public safety and criminal justice entities.
(b) Prior to July 1, 2012, the Division of State-Wide Emergency Telecommunications shall create technical and operational standards for the establishment of the public safety data network.
(c) The commissioner shall ensure that implementation of the public safety data network complies with all state and federal requirements for controlled or limited access data.
(d) The commissioner may enter into memoranda of understanding with public safety or criminal justice agencies that are connecting to the public safety data network concerning the use of the network. Such memoranda may address cost-sharing related to such use.
(e) Sources of revenue that provide funding for existing networks may be used to fund the use of the public safety data network.
(P.A. 12-68, S. 1; P.A. 16-150, S. 15.)
History: P.A. 12-68 effective May 31, 2012; P.A. 16-150 amended Subsec. (b) by replacing “Office” with “Division”.