Sec. 22a-357. (Formerly Sec. 25-6). Special reports.
Sec. 22a-357. (Formerly Sec. 25-6). Special reports. The Governor may, at any
time, require the Commissioner of Environmental Protection to secure the necessary
information and submit a special report upon any of the matters contained in sections
22a-337 and 22a-350, and if the Governor finds, upon an examination of such report,
that the interests of the state require, or that there exists a serious menace to the lives
or property of the people of the state, he may order the commissioner to take such action
as the Governor determines to be necessary to protect the interests of the state or the
lives or property of its citizens. In such case, the Governor may make available, out of
the civil list funds of the state not otherwise appropriated, a sufficient sum or sums
required to protect such interests.
(1949 Rev., S. 3570; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 55.)
History: 1971 act replaced water resources commission with environmental protection commissioner; Sec. 25-6 transferred to Sec. 22a-357 in 1983.
Cited. 215 C. 616.