2013 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police
Chapter 541 - Building, Fire and Demolition Codes. Fire Marshals and Fire Hazards. Safety of Public and Other Structures
Section 29-367 - (Formerly Sec. 29-106q). *(See end of section for amended version and effective date.) Regulation of model rocketry.

(a) The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection 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; P.A. 11-51, S. 90; P.A. 13-247, S. 200; 13-256, S. 12.)

*Note: On and after January 1, 2015, this section, as amended by section 18 of public act 09-177, sections 4 and 6 of public act 10-54, section 90 of public act 11-51, sections 3 and 4 of public act 12-60 and section 13 of public act 13-256, is to read as follows:

“Sec. 29-367. (Formerly Sec. 29-106q). Regulation of rockets. (a) The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection shall adopt, and may amend, reasonable regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, 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. Such regulations shall include provisions 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. The commissioner shall enforce such regulations.

(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; P.A. 09-177, S. 18; P.A. 10-54, S. 4, 6; P.A. 11-51, S. 90; P.A. 12-60, S. 3, 4; P.A. 13-247, S. 200; 13-256, S. 12, 13.)

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; P.A. 09-177 amended Subsec. (a) to add reference to Ch. 54, delete reference to national standards, and add requirement that regulations be incorporated into State Fire Prevention Code, effective January 1, 2011; P.A. 10-54 made technical changes, effective January 1, 2013, and changed effective date of P.A. 09-177, S. 18, from January 1, 2011, to January 1, 2013, effective May 18, 2010; pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Construction Services” in Subsec. (a), effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 12-60 changed effective date of P.A. 09-177, S. 18, as amended by P.A. 10-54, S. 6, and effective date of P.A. 10-54, S. 4, from January 1, 2013, to January 1, 2015, effective May 31, 2012; P.A. 13-256 amended Subsec. (a) to replace “Commissioner of Construction Services” with “Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection”, effective October 1, 2013, and further amended Subsec. (a) to delete requirement that regulations be incorporated into State Fire Prevention Code, effective January 1, 2015.