2013 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 22a - Environmental Protection
Chapter 445 - Hazardous Waste
Section 22a-131 - Civil penalty for violation of hazardous waste program.

Any person who violates any provision of the state’s hazardous waste program shall be assessed a civil penalty of not more than twenty-five thousand dollars for each day such violation continues. The Attorney General, upon complaint of the commissioner, shall institute a civil action to recover such penalty. Any amount recovered shall be deposited in the General Fund.

(P.A. 81-443, S. 2, 7; P.A. 84-535, S. 3; P.A. 85-390, S. 1; P.A. 87-475, S. 5, 7; P.A. 95-208, S. 6, 13.)

History: P.A. 84-535 added provision requiring amounts recovered to be credited to the emergency spill response fund; P.A. 85-390 substituted references to assessment of civil penalty for references to imposition of fine; P.A. 87-475 deleted reference to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (42 USC 6901 et seq.); P.A. 95-208 amended section to require that any amount recovered be deposited in General Fund, rather than deposited in General Fund and credited to Emergency Spill Response Fund, effective July 1, 1995.