2019 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 21a - Consumer Protection
Chapter 416 - Department of Consumer Protection
Section 21a-12 - (Formerly Sec. 19-170f). Use of chemicals in removing soot from chimneys and flues.

(a) The Commissioner of Consumer Protection is directed to prepare and enforce reasonable regulations for the safe manufacture, storage, transportation and use of chemical, mineral or metallic compounds used or intended to be used for the purpose of removing soot and scale from furnaces, steam boilers, flues or chimneys.

(b) Any person, firm or corporation engaged in, or desiring to engage in, the manufacture or distribution of any such compound shall first make application to said commissioner for permission to engage in such business and, at the same time, shall submit a sample of the compound which the applicant makes or proposes to make or distribute and shall pay a fee of fifty dollars. Said commissioner, on receipt of such application, sample and fee, shall promptly submit the sample so received to a state chemist for determination of the component elements and their relative proportions to each other in such sample. The state chemist to whom such sample is delivered shall analyze the same and advise said commissioner of his findings, especially as to the kind and quantity of each of the elements found in such sample, and shall further advise said commissioner as to whether or not the combination of ingredients so found in such sample creates or tends to create a special fire or casualty hazard. Said commissioner, on receipt of the report of the state chemist to the effect that the combination of the ingredients found in such sample does not constitute a special fire or casualty hazard, shall issue a certificate to the manufacturer or distributor of such compound approving its use when used in accordance with such reasonable regulations as said commissioner may make.

(c) From the fee received with each such application, said commissioner shall pay such reasonable sum as may be required to the state chemist and shall cause the balance of such fees to be deposited in the State Treasury as a part of the General Fund of the state.

(d) Any person who, by himself, his employee or agent, or as the employee or agent of another, manufactures, stores, transports, sells or offers for sale any such compound which has not been approved by the Commissioner of Consumer Protection in accordance with the provisions of this section shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than six months or both.

(1949 Rev., S. 3685; P.A. 73-280; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(c); P.A. 04-189, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 73-280 replaced commissioner of state police with commissioner of consumer protection in Subsecs. (a) and (d); Sec. 29-108 transferred to Sec. 19-170f in 1979; Sec. 19-170f transferred to Sec. 21a-12 in 1983; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 replaced Commissioner of Consumer Protection with Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective June 1, 2004.