Sec. 23-61f. Penalties.

(a) Any person who violates any provision of subsection (b), (c) or (d) of section 23-61b or of any regulation issued under subsection (e) of section 23-61a shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars.

(b) Any person who violates any provision of chapter 441 or section 23-61a or 23-61b shall be considered under the jurisdiction of the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection.

(c) Any person who violates any provision of subsection (a) of section 23-61b shall be assessed a civil penalty of not less than one thousand dollars but not more than two thousand five hundred dollars for each day such violation continues. The Attorney General, upon complaint of the commissioner, shall institute a civil action in the superior court for the judicial district of Hartford to recover such penalty. Any such action shall have precedence in the order of trial as provided in section 52-191.

(1967, P.A. 587, S. 6; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 432; P.A. 73-540, S. 26, 28; P.A. 88-230, S. 1, 12; P.A. 90-98, S. 1, 2; P.A. 93-142, S. 4, 7, 8; P.A. 95-220, S. 4–6; P.A. 98-229, S. 3; P.A. 02-89, S. 68; P.A. 03-278, S. 84; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)

History: 1971 act placed violators under jurisdiction of environmental protection commissioner rather than that of commissioner of agriculture and natural resources and pesticide control board; P.A. 73-540 substituted “Connecticut Pesticide Control Act” for reference to Secs. 19-300k to 19-300t and reiterated transfer of jurisdiction; (Revisor's note: In 1993 obsolete reference in Subsec. (a) to repealed Sec. 23-61c was deleted editorially by the Revisors); P.A. 98-229 amended Subsecs. (a) and (b) to assign jurisdiction over arboriculture violations to the Commissioner of Environmental Protection and added Subsec. (c) re civil penalties for such violations (Revisor's note: P.A. 88-230, 90-98, 93-142 and 95-220 authorized substitution of “judicial district of Hartford” for “judicial district of Hartford-New Britain” in public and special acts of the 1998 regular and special sessions of the General Assembly, effective September 1, 1998); P.A. 02-89 amended Subsecs. (a) and (c) to delete references to Sec. 23-61d and amended Subsec. (b) to replace reference to “sections 23-61a to 23-61d, inclusive” with “section 23-61a”, reflecting repeal of Sec. 23-61d by the same public act; P.A. 03-278 made a technical change in Subsec. (b), effective July 9, 2003; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Commissioner of Environmental Protection” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection” in Subsec. (b), effective July 1, 2011.