Sec. 23-65f. Definitions.
Sec. 23-65f. Definitions. As used in sections 23-65g to 23-65o, inclusive:
(1) "Commercial forest practices" means any forest practices performed by a person
other than the owner of the subject forest land for remuneration, or which, when performed, yield commercial forest products;
(2) "Commercial forest products" means wood products harvested from a tract of
forest land in excess of fifty cords or one hundred fifty tons or twenty-five thousand
board feet, whichever measure is appropriate, in any twelve-month period;
(3) "Commercial forest practitioner" means any person who engages in commercial
forest practices;
(4) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Environmental Protection;
(5) "Department" means the Department of Environmental Protection;
(6) "Forest land" means that portion of a parcel of land which constitutes a total of
at least one contiguous acre on which there is no structure, maintained landscape area,
accessway or other improvement and which is (A) occupied in random distribution by
trees having a minimum diameter of three inches as measured from a point on the trunk
which is four and one-half feet above the ground such trees comprising at least seven
and one-half square feet of basal area and the crowns of such trees occupying no less
than fifteen per cent of the total area; or (B) which is planted with at least five hundred
trees per acre and is not maintained for Christmas tree or nursery stock production;
(7) "Forest practice" means any activity which may alter the physical or vegetative
characteristics of any forest land which is undertaken in connection with the harvest of
commercial forest products unless such harvest is undertaken pursuant to the conversion
of forest land to other uses and such conversion has been approved by (A) the planning
commission, zoning commission, or combined planning and zoning commission, and
(B) if the forest land includes any wetland or if the municipality within which the land
is located regulates forest practices under section 23-65k, the inland wetlands agency
of the municipality;
(8) "Forest practitioner" means any person who engages in forest practices;
(9) "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company, company, organization or legal entity of any kind, including any
political subdivision of the state and including any state agency;
(10) "Tree" means a woody perennial plant usually having one self-supporting stem
or trunk which has a definitely formed crown and is normally expected to attain a mature
height of over twenty feet.
(P.A. 86-257, S. 1, 6; P.A. 91-335, S. 1; P.A. 95-79, S. 103, 189; P.A. 98-228, S. 7; P.A. 99-225, S. 17, 33.)
History: P.A. 91-335 entirely replaced section with new definitions re forest practices; P.A. 95-79 redefined "person"
to include a limited liability company, effective May 31, 1995; P.A. 98-228 amended Subdiv. (7) to exclude from the
definition of "forest practices" certain approved activities undertaken to convert forest land; P.A. 99-225 amended Subdiv.
(7) to clarify when approval of an inland wetlands agency is required to exempt certain activities from the definition of
"forest practices", effective June 29, 1999 (Revisor's note: In 2001 the word "inclusive" and the preceding comma were
inserted following the reference to Sec. 23-65o in the introductory clause to correct an omission in the codification of P.A.
91-335).