2016 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 22a - Environmental Protection
Chapter 446m - Mercury Reduction and Education
Section 22a-628 - Criminal negligence. False statement, representation or certification. Knowing violation. Penalties.

(a) Any person who, with criminal negligence, violates any provision of this chapter, including, but not limited to, any regulation adopted or order issued pursuant to this chapter, or who makes any false statement, representation or certification in any application, notification, request for exemption, record, plan, report or other document filed or required to be maintained under this chapter, shall be fined not more than twenty-five thousand dollars per day for each day of violation or be imprisoned not more than one year, or both. A subsequent conviction for any such violation shall carry a fine of not more than fifty thousand dollars per day for each day of violation or imprisonment for not more than two years, or both.

(b) Any person who knowingly violates any provision of this chapter, including, but not limited to, any regulation adopted or order issued pursuant to this chapter, or who makes any false statement, representation, or certification in any application, notification, request for exemption, record, plan, report or other document filed or required to be maintained under this chapter, shall be fined not more than fifty thousand dollars per day for each day of violation or be imprisoned not more than three years, or both. A subsequent conviction for any such violation shall be a class C felony, except that such conviction shall carry a fine of not more than fifty thousand dollars per day for each day of violation.

(P.A. 06-76, S. 29; P.A. 08-124, S. 32; P.A. 13-258, S. 122.)

History: P.A. 06-76 effective October 1, 2007; P.A. 08-124 made a technical change in Subsec. (a), effective June 2, 2008; P.A. 13-258 amended Subsec. (b) to substitute provision re class C felony for provision re imprisonment of not more than 10 years.