Sec. 19a-47. (Formerly Sec. 19-18). Information to local authorities. Reports to department. Notification of spills.
Sec. 19a-47. (Formerly Sec. 19-18). Information to local authorities. Reports
to department. Notification of spills. (a) The Department of Public Health shall cause
all proper sanitary information in its possession to be forwarded promptly to the local
health authorities of any town, city, borough or county in the state which requests the
same, adding thereto such useful suggestions as the experience of said department may
supply. The local health authorities shall supply like information to said department,
together with a copy of their reports and other publications. Said department may require
reports and information at such times and of such facts, and generally of such nature
and extent, relating to the safety of life and promotion of health, as its rules provide,
from all public dispensaries, hospitals, asylums, infirmaries, prisons and schools, from
the officers thereof and from all other public institutions, their officers and managers,
and from the proprietors, managers, lessees and occupants of all places of public resort
in the state; but such reports and information shall only be required relating to matters
concerning which said department may in its opinion need information for the discharge
of its duties. Said department shall, when requested by public authorities, advise officers
of the state or local government in regard to sanitary drainage, and the location, drainage,
ventilation and sanitary provisions of any public institution, building or place. Said
department shall give all information that may be reasonably requested, concerning any
threatened danger to the public health, to local directors of health and to all other sanitary
authorities in the state, who shall give like information to said department; and said
department and such directors and sanitary authorities shall cooperate to prevent the
spread of disease, and for the protection of life and the promotion of health.
(b) The Department of Public Health shall cause all information concerning a discharge, spillage, uncontrolled loss, seepage or filtration of oil or petroleum or chemical
liquids or solid, liquid or gaseous products or hazardous wastes upon any land or into
any of the waters of the state or into any offshore or coastal waters which may result
in a threatened danger to the public health to be transmitted to the Commissioner of
Environmental Protection, and the chief executive officer and the local director of health
of the municipality in which such discharge, spillage, uncontrolled loss, seepage or
filtration occurs. Such information shall be provided in a timely manner.
(1949 Rev., S. 3809; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 90-276, S. 2; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58.)
History: P.A. 77-614 replaced department of health with department of health services, effective January 1, 1979; Sec.
19-18 transferred to Sec. 19a-47 in 1983; P.A. 90-276 added Subsec. (b) re notification of certain spills; 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.