Title 22 — Title 22: Agriculture. Domestic Animals

Sec. 22-100. Nursery certificate. Uninspected stock. The State Entomologist shall issue to regular nurseries certificates, valid until the first day of August following the date of issue and covering the stock inspected and such other stock as has been received under valid certif…

Sec. 22-101. Penalty. Appeal. Any person who interferes with the State Entomologist or his assistant in the performance of his duties under the provisions of sections 22-98, 22-99 and 22-100, or any person, firm or corporation which violates any of the provisions thereof, shall b…

Sec. 22-102. Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station. The Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station shall remain as established, and the management and control thereof shall be vested in the trustees of The University of Connecticut. Said experiment station shall make an annual repor…

Sec. 22-103. Acceptance of certain federal acts. The state of Connecticut accepts the provisions of the Act of Congress known as the Bankhead-Jones Act, entitled, “An Act to provide for research into basic laws and principles relating to agriculture and to provide for the further…

Sec. 22-104. Use of federal funds by experiment stations. (a) Except in the cases provided for in subsection (b) of this section, any new funds that may come to this state under the provisions of said acts of Congress shall be divided between the Connecticut Agricultural Experime…

Sec. 22-79. Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. Board of control. The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station shall be within the Department of Agriculture for administrative purposes only. The management of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station shall be ve…

Sec. 22-79a. Office of Aquatic Invasive Species. Established. Duties. Staffing. There is established within the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station the Office of Aquatic Invasive Species. The office shall: (1) Coordinate research efforts throughout the state to reduce dup…

Sec. 22-80. Meetings of board; officers. Said board shall meet not less than quarterly during any calendar year upon the call of the president at such times and places as he deems necessary, except that the board shall meet in January at such place as may be designated by its pre…

Sec. 22-81. Duties of board. Reports. (a) Said board shall have the general management of the institution and shall appoint a director, who shall have the general management and oversight of experiments and investigations. It may own such real and personal estate as may be necess…

Sec. 22-81a. Testing of mosquitoes for public health threat. The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station shall, within available appropriations and in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, conduct surveillance and testing for the existence of mosquitoes carrying the…

Sec. 22-81b. Best practices and guidelines for investigating and treating bed bug infestations. The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, in consultation with the Department of Public Health and the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, shall, within available…

Sec. 22-82. Endowment of agricultural experiment station. The expenditure of such funds as may come to this state under the provisions of an Act of Congress, approved February 24, 1925, entitled “An Act for the more complete endowment of Agricultural Experiment Stations, and for …

Sec. 22-82a. Inventions and discoveries by employees. (a) As used in subsections (b) to (h), inclusive, of this section: (1) “Station” means the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station; (2) “director” means the director of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station; and …

Sec. 22-83. Research and experiment in tobacco growing. The Board of Control of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station is authorized to conduct research and experimental work as to causes and prevention of the various diseases and injuries to the Connecticut tobacco crop…

Sec. 22-84. Plant pests. Authority of director. Enforcement. Violation. Firewood transport violations. (a) The director of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station shall have charge of all matters pertaining to official control, suppression or extermination of insects or d…

Sec. 22-84a. Research consistent with goals of integrated pest management. The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station shall, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, continue its research in the reduction of pesticide use, the improvement of crop quality and other …

Secs. 22-85 to 22-87. European corn borer. White pine blister rust. European black currant plants. Sections 22-85 to 22-87, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 3252–3254; 1961, P.A. 5; P.A. 83-487, S. 32, 33.)

Sec. 22-88. State Entomologist; appointment; duties. Said board of control shall appoint a State Entomologist to hold office during the pleasure of the board. He shall have an office at the experiment station, but shall receive no compensation other than his regular salary as a m…

Sec. 22-89. Registration of honey bees. Each person owning one or more hives of bees shall upon acquisition of such bees and annually thereafter, on or before the first day of October, make application to the State Entomologist for the registration of bees. The State Entomologist…

Sec. 22-90. Inspection of bees for contagious diseases and insects, mites or parasitic organisms. The State Entomologist shall, to such extent as he or she deems necessary or expedient, examine apiaries and quarantine such as are diseased, harboring insects, mites or parasitic or…

Sec. 22-90a. Pollinator Advisory Committee. Membership. The director of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station shall establish a Pollinator Advisory Committee from the staff of such agency. Such committee shall consist of not fewer than three persons who have expertise i…

Sec. 22-90b. Model pollinator habitat. Requirements. Not later than January 1, 2017, the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station shall compile a citizen's guide to model pollinator habitat that shall be made available on the Internet web site of such agency. Such guide shall …

Sec. 22-91. Gypsy and brown-tail moths. Section 22-91 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 3258; 1961, P.A. 3.)

Sec. 22-91a. Gypsy moth as public nuisance. The insect commonly known as the gypsy moth is, in all stages of its development, declared to be a public nuisance. (1967, P.A. 446, S. 1.)

Sec. 22-91b. Survey of infestation by State Entomologist. Whenever the existence of the gypsy moth reaches or threatens to reach epidemic proportions in any part of this state, or if such infestation results in a hazardous highway condition because of gypsy moths on the highway c…

Sec. 22-91c. Roadside spraying. State aid. The legislative body of any town, city or borough may contract for the spraying of any roadside area or areas within its jurisdiction, provided such spraying shall be approved by the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection. A…

Sec. 22-91d. Assessment of landowners. Any town, city or borough which contracts for spraying of areas within its jurisdiction, other than roadside spraying, under the provisions of sections 22-91a to 22-91f, inclusive, may, by vote of its legislative body, assess the owners of t…

Sec. 22-91e. Emergency. Appropriations. If the State Entomologist declares that an emergency exists because of the prevalence of gypsy moths, he may so certify to the Finance Advisory Committee. The Finance Advisory Committee may thereupon add from the resources of the General Fu…

Sec. 22-91f. Epidemic conditions. If the State Entomologist finds that the existence of the gypsy moth has reached epidemic proportions in any area of the state, he shall so instruct the affected municipalities which shall jointly undertake such spraying as the State Entomologist…

Secs. 22-92 to 22-95. Emergency gypsy moth control. Agent for suppression of gypsy and brown-tail moths, etc. Sections 22-92 to 22-95, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 3259–3261; 1955, S. 1776d; 1961, P.A. 3; 1963, P.A. 527, S. 12; 612, S. 12.)

Sec. 22-96. Certificate of inspection of imported nursery stock. All nursery stock shipped into this state shall bear on each package a certificate that the contents of such package have been inspected by a state or government officer and that such contents appear free from all d…

Sec. 22-97. Nursery and nursery stock defined. For the purposes of sections 22-98, 22-99 and 22-100, any place at which hardy trees, shrubs and vines are propagated or grown out of doors for commercial purposes shall be considered a nursery, and such stock shall be regarded as nu…

Sec. 22-98. Nursery stock; powers of State Entomologist. The State Entomologist or his assistants shall, upon application, inspect at least once each year all nurseries at which woody field-grown hardy trees and plants are grown for sale or shipment; may inspect any nursery stock…

Sec. 22-99. Nurserymen and dealers to register. All nurserymen shall register with the State Entomologist each year, on or before July first, and make application for inspection, and furnish such data on such blanks as the State Entomologist prescribes and furnishes. All firms, s…