Sec. 22a-66k. Utilities pesticide management plan. Notice of application.
Sec. 22a-66k. Utilities pesticide management plan. Notice of application. (a)
Each electric company, as defined in section 16-1, shall submit a utilities pesticide
management plan to the Commissioner of Environmental Protection for approval with
the concurrence of the Public Utilities Control Authority. A plan shall be revised at such
time as the electric company filing the plan or the commissioner determines provided
such plan shall be revised not less than once every five years.
(b) Any electric company, as defined in section 16-1, telephone company, as defined
in section 16-1 or telecommunications company, as defined in section 16-1, which provides for the application of a pesticide within a right-of-way maintained by such company shall ensure that owners, occupants or tenants of buildings or dwellings that are
located on property which abuts such right-of-way, or property within which such right-of-way lies, are notified at least forty-eight hours prior to the application. Notice may
be made by any method, including telephone, mail or personal notification. Any such
company which provides for the application of pesticides in connection with removal
of trees or brush from private property shall obtain the consent of the owner, occupant
or tenant of such property prior to the application. Notwithstanding the provisions of
section 23-65, any such company which provides for the application of pesticides to
any utility pole, after it has been installed, for purposes of maintaining, preserving or
extending the useful life of the pole shall post notice of such application on each such
pole.
(c) The commissioner shall adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of
chapter 54 setting forth the contents of a pesticide management plan. Such regulations
shall include provisions for the on-site posting of a notice of a pesticide application. A
notice required by such regulations may be posted at the time of or after the application,
provided the time of such posting shall be sufficient to protect persons engaged in a
lawful public recreational use of any unimproved real property in which such application
is made.
(P.A. 87-298, S. 2; P.A. 97-97; P.A. 98-229, S. 7.)
History: P.A. 97-97 amended Subsec. (a) to require revision of pesticide management plans every five years, added
new Subsec. (b) re notice requirements for application of pesticides by utility companies, redesignated former Subsec. (b)
as Subsec. (c) and made technical changes; P.A. 98-229 amended Subsec. (b) to require that notice under this section be
given to occupants or tenants of certain property.