2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 17b-531. (Formerly Sec. 17a-371). Investigations. Hearings. Injunctions. Action by Attorney General.
Sec. 17b-531. (Formerly Sec. 17a-371). Investigations. Hearings. Injunctions.
Action by Attorney General. (a) The commissioner, or any agent authorized by the
commissioner, may conduct investigations within or outside of this state as the commissioner deems necessary to determine whether any person has violated any provision
regarding the registration, disclosure and escrow provisions relating to continuing-care
contracts or any regulation adopted pursuant to section 17b-533 or to aid in the enforcement of sections 17b-520 to 17b-535, inclusive, or in the prescribing of regulations
under said sections. The commissioner, or any agent authorized by the commissioner,
shall have the power to conduct any inquiry, investigation or hearing pursuant to the
provisions of this section relating to continuing-care contracts and shall have the power
to administer oaths and take testimony under oath relative to the matter of inquiry or
investigation. At any hearing ordered by the commissioner, the commissioner or such
agent having authority by law to issue such process may subpoena witnesses and require
the production of records, papers and documents pertinent to such inquiry. If any person
disobeys such process or, having appeared in obedience thereto, refuses to answer any
pertinent question put to him by the commissioner or his authorized agent or to produce
any records and papers pursuant thereto, the commissioner or his agent may apply to
the superior court for the judicial district of Hartford or for the judicial district wherein
the person resides or wherein the provider or the facility is located, or to any judge of
said court if the same is not in session, setting forth such disobedience to process or
refusal to answer, and said court or such judge shall cite such person to appear before
said court or such judge, and upon appropriate order, to show cause why answer to such
question or production of such records should not be made.
(P.A. 86-252, S. 12, 17; P.A. 88-230, S. 1, 12; P.A. 90-98, S. 1, 2; P.A. 93-142, S. 4, 7, 8; P.A. 95-220, S. 4-6; P.A. 99-282, S. 3, 4.)
History: P.A. 88-230 replaced "judicial district of Hartford-New Britain" with "judicial district of Hartford", effective September 1, 1991; P.A. 90-98 changed the effective date of P.A. 88-230 from September 1, 1991, to September 1, 1993; Sec. 17-546 transferred to Sec. 17a-371 in 1991; P.A. 93-142 changed the effective date of P.A. 88-230 from September 1, 1993, to September 1, 1996, effective June 14, 1993; Sec. 17a-371 transferred to Sec. 17b-531 in 1995; P.A. 95-220 changed the effective date of P.A. 88-230 from September 1, 1996, to September 1, 1998, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 99-282 amended Subsec. (b) to allow the Attorney General to seek restitution, damages or other relief on behalf of any person injured by a violation of any provision of sections 17b-520 to 17b-535, inclusive, if the commissioner finds that any person has violated said provisions, effective July 1, 1999, and applicable to violations occurring on or after that date.
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