2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 22a-354o. Municipal regulation of aquifer protection areas.

      Sec. 22a-354o. Municipal regulation of aquifer protection areas. (a) Each municipality in which an aquifer protection area is located shall authorize by ordinance an existing board or commission to act as such agency not later than three months after adoption by the commissioner of regulations for aquifer protection areas pursuant to section 22a-354i and approval by the commissioner of mapping of areas of contribution and recharge areas for wells located in stratified drift aquifers in the municipality at level B pursuant to section 22a-354d. The ordinance authorizing the agency shall determine the number of members and alternate members, the length of their terms, the method of selection and removal and the manner for filling vacancies. No member or alternate member of such agency shall participate in any hearing or decision of such agency of which he is a member upon any matter in which he is directly or indirectly interested in a personal or financial sense. In the event of disqualification, such fact shall be entered on the records of the agency and replacement shall be made from alternate members of an alternate to act as a member of such commission in the hearing and determination of the particular matter or matters in which the disqualification arose.

      (b) Not more than six months after approval by the commissioner of mapping at level A, pursuant to section 22a-354d, the aquifer protection agency of the municipality in which such aquifer protection area is located shall adopt regulations for aquifer protection.

      (c) At least one member of the agency or staff of the agency shall be a person who has completed the course in technical training formulated by the commissioner pursuant to section 22a-354v. Failure to have a member of the agency or staff with training shall not affect the validity of any action of the agency and shall be grounds for revocation of the authority of the agency under section 22a-354t.

      (P.A. 89-305, S. 8, 32; P.A. 95-218, S. 6.)

      History: P.A. 95-218 amended Subsec. (b) to change "well" to "aquifer protection area" for consistency in the text.