2019 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 22a - Environmental Protection
Chapter 446i - Water Resources. Invasive Plants
Section 22a-381c - Prohibition on purchase of invasive or potentially invasive plants by state agencies.
No state agency, department or institution shall purchase any plant listed as invasive or potentially invasive pursuant to section 22a-381b, provided nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit such purchase if such purchase is necessary to honor a state contract in effect as of the date any such plant is listed as invasive or potentially invasive pursuant to section 22a-381b. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit any state agency, department or institution, or the agents of such agency, department or institution, from transporting any invasive or potentially invasive plant for educational, research or eradication purposes.
(P.A. 03-136, S. 4; P.A. 09-52, S. 4.)
History: P.A. 03-136 effective June 26, 2003; P.A. 09-52 added reference to agents of state agency, department or institution and expanded exception to include transport for eradication purposes, effective July 1, 2009.
