Sec. 16a-103. (Formerly Sec. 19-408). State agencies to study laws and regulations.
Sec. 16a-103. (Formerly Sec. 19-408). State agencies to study laws and regulations. Each of the following-named state agencies is directed to initiate and to pursue
continuing studies as to the need, if any, for changes in the laws and regulations administered by it that would arise from the presence within the state of special nuclear materials
and by-product materials and from the operation herein of production or utilization
facilities, and, on the basis of such studies, to make such recommendations for the
enactment of laws or amendments to law administered by it, and such proposals for
amendments to the regulations issued by it, as may appear necessary and appropriate:
(1) The Department of Public Health, particularly as to hazards, if any, to the public
health and safety; (2) the Labor Department, particularly as to hazardous working conditions, if any; (3) the Workers' Compensation Commission, particularly as to the time
and character of proof of claims or injuries and the extent of the compensation allowable
therefor; (4) the Department of Motor Vehicles and the Division of State Police within
the Department of Public Safety, particularly as to the transportation of special nuclear
materials and by-product materials on highways of the state; (5) the Department of
Public Utility Control, particularly as to the transportation of special nuclear materials
and by-product materials by common carriers not in interstate commerce and as to the
participation by public utilities subject to its jurisdiction in projects looking to the development of production or utilization facilities for industrial or commercial use; (6) the
Insurance Commissioner, particularly as to the insurance of persons and property from
hazards to life and property resulting from atomic development; (7) Commissioner of
Environmental Protection, particularly as to the hazards, if any, to the natural resources
of the state, including, without limitation, wildlife, air pollution and the protection, if
necessary, of all waterways, including, without limitation, tidal waters, rivers, lakes and
streams, from pollution; and (8) such other agencies as the Governor may direct and for
the purposes specified by him. No additional employees shall be hired for the purpose
of carrying on such studies.
(June, 1955, S. 1937d; 1957, P.A. 4; 364, S. 8; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 153; P.A. 75-486, S. 49, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162,
163, 323, 486, 610; P.A. 79-376, S. 26; P.A. 80-482, S. 173, 348; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58.)
History: 1971 act deleted reference to air pollution as hazard to public health and safety in Subdiv. (a), replaced board
of fisheries and game with commissioner of environmental protection in Subdiv. (g), included air pollution and merged
Subdiv. (h) into Subdiv. (g), deleting reference to water resources commission, and relettered former Subdiv. (i) as Subdiv.
(h); P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority in Subdiv. (e); P.A. 77-614
replaced public utilities control authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation,
and department of health with department of health services in Subdiv. (a), placed insurance commissioner within the
department of business regulation and made insurance department a division within that department in Subdiv. (f) and
made state police department a division within the department of public safety in Subdiv. (d), effective January 1, 1979;
P.A. 79-376 replaced "workmen's compensation" with "workers' compensation" in Subdiv. (c); P.A. 80-482 made division
of public utility control an independent department, restored insurance commissioner as head of independent insurance
department and deleted references to abolished department of business regulation; Sec. 19-408 transferred to Sec. 16a-103 in 1983 and alphabetic Subdiv. indicators changed editorially by the Revisors to numeric indicators; 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; (Revisor's note: In 1997 references throughout the general statutes
to "Motor Vehicle(s) Commissioner" and "Motor Vehicle(s) Department" were replaced editorially by the Revisors with
"Commissioner of Motor Vehicles" or "Department of Motor Vehicles", as the case may be, for consistency with customary
statutory usage).