2019 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 21a - Consumer Protection
Chapter 419a - Nonalcoholic Beverages
Section 21a-150 - Bottled water: Definitions.

For the purposes of this section and sections 21a-150a to 21a-150j, inclusive:

(1) “Approved laboratory” means a laboratory registered by the Department of Public Health pursuant to section 19a-29a or certified by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to analyze drinking water;

(2) “Approved source” means the source of any bottled water, including, but not limited to, a spring, artesian well, drilled well or public water supply, that, for a source located in the state, has been inspected and approved by the Department of Public Health, or for a source located out of state, has been inspected and approved by the government entities having jurisdiction to regulate the use of such out-of-state source;

(3) “Artesian well water” means bottled natural water obtained from a well tapping an aquifer in which the level of the water is above the bottom of the confining bed of the aquifer and in which the hydraulic pressure of the water in the aquifer is greater than the atmospheric pressure;

(4) “Bottled water”, or any term of similar import, means water obtained from an approved source that is packaged for sale or distribution. “Bottled water” shall not include any soda or seltzer that is packaged for sale or distribution;

(5) “Bottler” means any person, firm or corporation engaging in the business of bottling or distributing water for sale or distribution;

(6) “Distilled water” means purified water that has been produced by a process of distillation;

(7) “Drinking water” means bottled water that has been distilled, fluoridated or purified or that has been disinfected by a process of ozonation and filtration or any substantially similar disinfection process;

(8) “Fluoridated water” means bottled water that contains fluoride ions in an amount not less than eight-tenths of one milligram per liter and not more than one and two-tenths milligrams per liter or such alternative concentration limit as the Commissioner of Consumer Protection, with the advice and assistance of the Commissioner of Public Health, may determine by regulations adopted in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 and that otherwise complies with the provisions of Subsections (b), (c) and (d) of 21 CFR 165.110;

(9) “Mineral water” means natural water that contains not less than five hundred parts per million total dissolved solids;

(10) “Natural water” means bottled spring water, artesian well water or well water, that has been obtained from any approved source other than a public water supply and that has not been modified by blending with water from any other source or by the addition or deletion of any mineral other than any addition or deletion that may occur as a result of ozonation, filtration or any other substantially similar disinfection process;

(11) “Principal display panel” means the portion of a label on any container or package that is most likely to be displayed, presented or examined under normal and customary conditions of display and purchase of bottled water;

(12) “Public water supply” means any individual, partnership, association, corporation, municipality or other entity, or the lessee thereof, that owns, maintains, operates, manages, controls or employs any pond, lake, reservoir, well, stream or distributing plant or system for the purpose of supplying water by service connections or pipe distribution systems to two or more hotels, motels, boardinghouses, apartments, stores, office buildings, institutions, mechanical or manufacturing establishments or other places of business or industry to which water is supplied by a water company or to twenty-five or more persons on a regular basis;

(13) “Purified water” means bottled water that is produced by distillation, deionization, reverse osmosis or any other suitable process and that meets standards established for purified water in the twentieth edition of the United States Pharmacopoeia;

(14) “Spring water” means natural water obtained from an underground formation from which water flows naturally to the surface of the earth; and

(15) “Well water” means natural water obtained from a hole bored, drilled or otherwise constructed in the ground, that taps the water of an aquifer.

(P.A. 86-241, S. 1; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(c); P.A. 04-189, S. 1; P.A. 11-242, S. 62.)

History: P.A. 93-381 replaced department and commissioner of health services with department and commissioner of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995; 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; P.A. 11-242 added new Subdiv. (1) defining “approved laboratory”, redesignated existing Subdivs. (1) to (14) as Subdivs. (2) to (15), redefined “approved source” in Subdiv. (2), redefined “bottler” in Subdiv. (5), substituted “Subsections (b), (c) and (d) of 21 CFR 165.110” for “Subdivision 2 of Subsection (d) of 21 Code of Federal Regulations 103.35” in Subdiv. (8) and made technical changes.