2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 29-367. (Formerly Sec. 29-106q). Regulation of model rocketry.

      Sec. 29-367. (Formerly Sec. 29-106q). Regulation of model rocketry. (a) The Commissioner of Public Safety shall make and enforce, and may amend, reasonable regulations concerning the safe design, construction, manufacture, testing, certification, storage, sale, shipping, operation and launching of rockets propelled by rocket motors, including, but not limited to, solid, liquid and cold propellant, hybrid, steam or pressurized liquid rocket motors. In adopting such regulations, said commissioner may be guided by recognized national standards for the prevention of injury to life and damage to property and protection of hazards incident to the design, construction, manufacture, testing, storage, sale, shipping, operation and launching of such rockets.

      (b) Such regulations shall not apply to (1) the design, construction, production, fabrication, manufacture, maintenance, launching, flight, test, operation, use of, or any activity in connection with a rocket or rocket motor when carried on by or engaged in by the government of the United States or any state government, any college, university or other institution of higher learning, any individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, corporation, or other business entity engaged in research, development, production, test, maintenance, or supply of rockets, rocket motors, rocket propellants, or rocket components as a business under contract to or for the purposes of sale to any government, college, university, institution of higher learning, or other similarly engaged business entity; or (2) the design, construction, production, fabrication, manufacture, maintenance, launching, flight, test, operation, use of, or any activity in connection with rocket-propelled model aircraft which sustain themselves against gravity by aerodynamic lifting surfaces during the entire duration of their flight in the air, or to the rocket motors that provide propulsion therefor.

      (1969, P.A. 781, S. 1; P.A. 73-13, S. 1, 3; P.A. 76-247, S. 1, 3; P.A. 77-614, S. 486, 610.)

      History: P.A. 73-13 transferred regulation power from commissioner of state police to commissioner of consumer protection; P.A. 76-247 restored transferred power to commissioner of state police; P.A. 77-614 replaced commissioner of state police with commissioner of public safety, effective January 1, 1979; Sec. 29-106q transferred to Sec. 29-367 in 1983.

      See chapter 54 re uniform administrative procedure.