Title 22a — Title 22a: Environmental Protection

Sec. 22a-46. Short title: Connecticut Pesticide Control Act. This part, subsection (a) of section 23-61a and sections 23-61b and 23-61f may be cited as the “Connecticut Pesticide Control Act”. (P.A. 73-540, S. 1, 28; P.A. 02-89, S. 53.) History: P.A. 02-89 replaced reference to “…

Sec. 22a-47. Definitions. For purposes of this part, subsection (a) of section 23-61a and sections 23-61b and 23-61f: (a) “Active ingredient” means: (1) In the case of a pesticide other than a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant, an ingredient which will prevent, destroy, re…

Sec. 22a-47a. Exemption for certain uses of lime. When used to control starfish populations on shellfish beds, the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection shall not deem lime to be a pesticide as defined and regulated under this chapter and such lime shall be exempt fro…

Sec. 22a-48. Registration required. Exceptions. Categorization of pesticides. (a) Except as otherwise provided by this part, subsection (a) of section 23-61a or section 23-61b, no person may distribute, sell, offer for sale, hold for sale, ship, deliver for shipment or receive an…

Sec. 22a-49. Registration statement. Criteria for registration. (a) Each applicant for registration of a pesticide shall file with the commissioner a statement which includes: (1) The name and address of the applicant and of any other person whose name will appear on the labeling…

Sec. 22a-50. Classification of pesticides, notice of changes. Registration fees, supplemental statements, prima facie evidence. (a) All pesticides which are registered shall be classified by the commissioner as acceptable for general use or for restricted use, provided if the com…

Sec. 22a-51. Pesticide experimental use permit. (a) Any person may apply to the commissioner for an experimental use permit for a pesticide. The commissioner may issue an experimental use permit if he determines that the applicant needs such permit in order to accumulate informat…

Sec. 22a-52. Cancellation of pesticide registration or change in classification; procedure. Use of chlordane restricted. (a) The commissioner shall cancel the registration of any pesticide at the end of the five-year period which begins on the date of its registration, or at the …

Sec. 22a-53. Order of suspension of registration, imminent hazard, hearing, notice, judicial review. (a) In the event that the commissioner determines that action is necessary to prevent an imminent hazard during the time required for cancellation or change in classification proc…

Sec. 22a-54. Pesticide applicators, certification, classification, notice, fees; reciprocity; financial responsibility; aircraft, tree, public employee applicators. (a) No individual shall use or supervise the use of any restricted use pesticide within this state at any time with…

Sec. 22a-54a. Golf course fee. The owner of any golf course which has a course length greater than one thousand yards shall, not later than December thirty-first annually, pay a fee of two hundred fifty dollars to the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection to assist …

Sec. 22a-55. Regulations regarding application of pesticides; penalties. The commissioner may establish regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, governing the application of pesticides by private applicators, commercial applicators and aircraft applicators. T…

Sec. 22a-56. Registration of pesticide distributors. Regulations. Fee. (a) No person shall distribute, sell, offer for sale, hold for sale, ship, deliver for shipment or receive and, having so received, deliver or offer to deliver any restricted or permit use pesticide unless tha…

Sec. 22a-56a. Grounds for refusal to grant registration. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may refuse to grant distributor registration or renewal of registration and may revoke or suspend registration following a hearing in accordance with the provisions of…

Sec. 22a-56b. New registration after suspension or revocation. Any registered distributor of restricted pesticides whose registration is suspended or revoked under any provision of this part may apply for a new registration when the time established by the commissioner in the ord…

Sec. 22a-57. Restrictions on sale of pesticides. (a) No person shall distribute, sell or offer for sale any restricted use pesticide to any person unless that person is a commercial supervisor or a private applicator certified under section 22a-54 or a seller registered under sec…

Sec. 22a-58. Records to be kept by distributors and applicators. (a) The commissioner may prescribe regulations requiring each distributor, common or contract carrier, dealer, or any other person who distributes, sells or offers for sale, delivers or offers for delivery any restr…

Sec. 22a-59. Enforcement authority: Inspections, samples, warrants. (a) For purposes of enforcing the provisions of this chapter, sections 10-231b, 10-231c and 10-231d, subsection (a) of section 23-61a and sections 23-61b and 23-61f, the commissioner may designate, within availab…

Sec. 22a-60. Trade secrets and business information protected. Declaratory judgments. (a) In submitting data required by this part, the applicant may (1) clearly mark any portions thereof which in his opinion are trade secrets or commercial or financial information and (2) submit…

Sec. 22a-61. Prohibited acts. Exceptions. Certification denial, suspension or revocation; grounds; review of certification. (a) Except as provided by subsection (b) of this section, it shall be unlawful for any person to use, distribute, sell, offer for sale, hold for sale, ship,…

Sec. 22a-61a. Prohibition re neonicotinoid applications on linden or basswood trees. (a) No person shall apply, in any manner, any insecticide that is a neonicotinoid, as defined in section 22-61k, to any linden or basswood tree in this state. (b) The Commissioner of Energy and E…

Sec. 22a-61b. Prohibition re application of neonicotinoids when plant bears blossoms. Exceptions. (a) No person shall apply any neonicotinoid, as defined in section 22-61k, that is labeled for treating plants to any plant when such plant bears blossoms unless such plant is grown …

Sec. 22a-61c. Chlorpyrifos. Golf course or cosmetic or nonagricultural use. Prohibited. Penalty. No person shall use or apply chlorpyrifos: (1) On any golf course, or (2) for any cosmetic or nonagricultural use. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may assess a…

Sec. 22a-62. Stop sale order; seizure, condemnation; reprocessing. Costs and fees. Court orders. (a) Whenever any pesticide or device is found by the commissioner and there is reason to believe on the basis of inspection or tests that such pesticide or device is in violation of a…

Sec. 22a-63. Penalties: Fine, imprisonment. (a) Any registrant, commercial applicator, uncertified person who performs or advertises or solicits to perform commercial application, wholesaler, dealer, retailer or other distributor who knowingly violates any provision of this chapt…

Sec. 22a-64. Exemption from or suspension of provisions. Section 22a-64 is repealed. (P.A. 73-540, S. 19, 28; P.A. 77-529, S. 23.)

Sec. 22a-65. Commissioner's duties. Pesticide Advisory Council. (a) After public hearing, the commissioner may make regulations governing the disposal of any pesticide or any container therefor, to prevent pollution of any waterway and to protect plant and animal life. Such regul…

Sec. 22a-66. Commissioner's powers, hearings, regulations. (a) The commissioner is authorized to prescribe regulations to carry out the provisions of this part, subsection (a) of section 23-61a and section 23-61b. Such regulations shall take into account the difference in concept…

Sec. 22a-66a. Notification of the application of pesticides. Registry. Regulations. Railroad company requirements. Penalty. (a) A pesticide application business, prior to entering into a written or oral agreement to apply a pesticide, shall provide to the person requesting the ap…

Sec. 22a-66b. Pesticide application businesses: Definitions. Compliance with record maintenance requirements. (a) As used in this section and sections 22a-66c to 22a-66j, inclusive: (1) “Pesticide application business” means any business which wholly or in part holds itself out f…

Sec. 22a-66c. Registration of pesticide application businesses. Application. Fee. (a) No person shall engage in the operation of a pesticide application business without first obtaining a certificate of registration from the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection. An…

Sec. 22a-66d. Action by the commissioner. (a) The commissioner shall, after review of a complete application, issue or deny a certificate of registration. An applicant shall be informed of a denial by certified mail, return receipt requested. A denial shall briefly state the reas…

Sec. 22a-66e. Grounds for denial. (a) The grounds for denial, revocation or suspension of a registration shall include, but not be limited to: (1) Violation of any provision of this chapter, as amended, or any regulation, permit, certificate, registration or order adopted, admini…

Sec. 22a-66f. Employment of commercial supervisory pesticide applicator. The pesticide application business shall employ at each place of business, for each category or subcategory in which it makes pesticide applications, not less than one commercial supervisory pesticide applic…

Sec. 22a-66g. Records. Availability. (a) A pesticide application business shall maintain records for not less than five years from the date such record is made or amended, whichever is later. The record shall indicate: (1) For each application of a pesticide made on behalf of the…

Sec. 22a-66h. Penalties. Any person who violates any provision of sections 22a-66b to 22a-66j, inclusive, shall forfeit to the state a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars per day for each day of violation. The Attorney General, upon complaint of the commissioner, shall instit…

Sec. 22a-66i. Action of officer or agent deemed to be action of pesticide application business. In any proceeding regarding denial, suspension or revocation of a certificate of registration, and any proceeding pursuant to section 22a-66h, the action, omission or failure to act of…

Sec. 22a-66j. Regulations. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, adopt such regulations as he deems necessary to carry out the purposes of sections 22a-66b to 22a-66i, inclusive. (P.A. 86-353, S. 9; P.A. 11-8…

Sec. 22a-66k. Utilities pesticide management plan. Notice of application. (a) Each electric distribution company, as defined in section 16-1, shall submit a utilities pesticide management plan to the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection for approval with the concur…

Sec. 22a-66l. Application of pesticides by state agencies. Review by Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection. Model integrated pest management plans. Regulations. Public information program. (a) Each state department, agency or institution shall use integrated pest ma…

Sec. 22a-66m. Application of pesticides on municipal playgrounds. Lawn care pesticide prohibition. Emergency exception. Prior public notice of pesticide application. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Pesticide” means a fungicide used on plants, an insecticide, a herbicide or a ro…

Sec. 22a-66n. Residential automatic pesticide misting system. Prohibition. Regulations. Fine. (a) On and after January 1, 2019, no person shall install or utilize any residential automatic pesticide misting system in this state. For purposes of this section, “residential automati…

Secs. 22a-66o to 22a-66x. Reserved for future use. PART II SODIUM FLUOROACETATE. PESTICIDES IN STATE WATERS

Sec. 22a-66y. (Formerly Sec. 19-300t). Sale, use or possession of sodium fluoroacetate. Section 22a-66y is repealed, effective June 11, 2014. (February, 1965, P.A. 225, S. 1; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 429; P.A. 82-472, S. 65, 183; P.A. 88-246, S. 2, 12; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 1…

Sec. 22a-66z. (Formerly Sec. 19-300u). Permits for use of pesticides in state waters. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may issue permits for the introduction of chemicals into the waters of the state for the control of aquatic vegetation, fish populations o…