Title 19a — Title 19a: Public Health and Well-Being

Sec. 19a-181g. Primary service area responder sale or transfer of ownership. A primary service area responder, as defined in section 19a-175, shall notify the Department of Public Health and the chief elected official or the chief executive officer of the municipality to which it…

Sec. 19a-182. (Formerly Sec. 19-73dd). Emergency medical services councils. Plans for delivery of services. (a) The emergency medical services councils shall advise the commissioner on area-wide planning and coordination of agencies for emergency medical services for each region …

Sec. 19a-183. (Formerly Sec. 19-73ee). Regional emergency medical services councils. There shall be established an emergency medical services council in each region. A region shall be composed of the towns so designated by the commissioner. Opportunity for membership shall be ava…

Sec. 19a-184. (Formerly Sec. 19-73ff). Functions of regional emergency medical services councils. (a) Each emergency medical services council shall (1) forward to the Commissioner of Public Health the emergency medical services plan for its region, and (2) review and within sixty…

Sec. 19a-185. (Formerly Sec. 19-73gg). Regional emergency medical services coordinators; appointment. Section 19a-185 is repealed, effective October 1, 2010. (P.A. 74-305, S. 14, 19; P.A. 75-112, S. 12, 18; P.A. 77-268, S. 7; P.A. 87-420, S. 8, 14; P.A. 10-117, S. 95.)

Sec. 19a-186. (Formerly Sec. 19-73hh). Functions of regional emergency medical services coordinators. The regional emergency medical services coordinator shall be responsible for: (1) Facilitating the work of the emergency medical services council in developing the plan for the c…

Sec. 19a-186a. Regional emergency medical services coordinators. Employment with Department of Public Health. Transition to classified service. (a) Any individual employed on June 30, 2010, as a regional emergency medical services coordinator or as an assistant regional emergency…

Sec. 19a-187. (Formerly Sec. 19-73ii). Cooperation of state agencies. Advice and consultation by The University of Connecticut Health Center. (a) All state agencies which are concerned with the emergency medical service delivery system shall, to the fullest extent consistent with…

Sec. 19a-188. (Formerly Sec. 19-73jj). Transfer of staff and funds. All existing staff, equipment and office supplies and all budgeted funds for the Emergency Medical Services Division of the Commission on Hospitals and Health Care are hereby transferred to and made part of the O…

Secs. 19a-189 to 19a-192. (Formerly Secs. 19-73kk to 19-73nn). Definitions. Municipal contracts with volunteer ambulance companies; residence requirements. Volunteer ambulance personnel compensated under chapter 568; hypertension or heart disease presumptions. Benefits for volunt…

Sec. 19a-19. (Formerly Sec. 19-4u). Regulation of business practices. The Department of Public Health shall not adopt any regulation concerning business practices. Regulations directed at the business practices of persons licensed or otherwise regulated under the provisions of se…

Sec. 19a-192a. Transferred to Chapter 447, Sec. 23-14a.

Sec. 19a-193. Transferred to Chapter 384d, Sec. 20-206jj.

Sec. 19a-193a. Liability for emergency medical treatment services or transportation services provided by an ambulance service or paramedic intercept service. Liability for medical services or transport services under nonemergency conditions from mobile integrated health care prog…

Sec. 19a-193b. Collection of payment by an ambulance service. An ambulance service, as defined in section 19a-175, shall make a good faith effort to determine whether a person has health insurance coverage prior to attempting to collect payment from such person for services provi…

Sec. 19a-194. (Formerly Sec. 19-73pp). Motorcycle rescue vehicles. (a) A motorcycle equipped to handle medical emergencies shall be deemed a rescue vehicle. The commissioner shall issue a safety certificate to such motorcycle upon examination of such vehicle and a determination t…

Sec. 19a-195. Regulations re staffing of ambulances. The commissioner shall adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 to require all ambulances to be staffed by at least one certified emergency medical technician, who shall be in the patient compartment at…

Secs. 19a-195a and 19a-195b. Regulations re recertification and state-wide standardization of certification. Reinstatement of expired certification; validity of expired certificate. Sections 19a-195a and 19a-195b are repealed, effective October 1, 2015. (P.A. 83-240; P.A. 93-381,…

Sec. 19a-196. Complaints against emergency medical services councils, hearings and appeals. (a) For purposes of this section and sections 19a-196a and 19a-196b, “municipality” means any town, city or borough, whether consolidated or unconsolidated. (b) For purposes of this sectio…

Sec. 19a-196a. Termination of services to municipalities restricted. No emergency medical service council or emergency communication system shall terminate service to any municipality which participates in such council or system or which is a member of an agency or regional emerg…

Sec. 19a-196b. Response to calls from other municipalities. Transporting patients to the state's mobile field hospital. (a) Each emergency medical service council and emergency medical service system shall respond to and honor calls from any municipality that participates in anot…

Sec. 19a-197. Automatic external defibrillators. Registry established. Regulations. Simultaneous communication with physician not required. Section 19a-197 is repealed, effective October 1, 2008. (P.A. 98-62, S. 3; P.A. 00-47, S. 1; P.A. 08-184, S. 63.)

Sec. 19a-197a. Administration of epinephrine. (a) As used in this section, “emergency medical services personnel” means (1) any class of emergency medical technician certified pursuant to sections 20-206ll and 20-206mm, including, but not limited to, any advanced emergency medica…

Sec. 19a-197b. Training standards for the use of automatic external defibrillators. A paid or volunteer firefighter or police officer, a member of a ski patrol, a lifeguard, a conservation officer, patrol officer or special police officer of the Department of Energy and Environme…

Sec. 19a-197c. Automatic external defibrillators required on public golf courses. Each public golf course, as defined in section 30-33, shall provide and maintain in a central location on the premises of the public golf course, at least one automatic external defibrillator, as de…

Secs. 19a-198 and 19a-199. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 19a-1a. Department of Public Health. Successor department to Department of Public Health and Addiction Services. (a) There is established a Department of Public Health. The department head shall be the Commissioner of Public Health, who shall be appointed by the Governor in …

Sec. 19a-1b. Department of Public Health and Addiction Services: Administration, operations and programs units. Agency goals. Section 19a-1b is repealed, effective July 1, 1995. (S.A. 92-20, S. 3 (b), (d); P.A. 93-262, S. 7, 87; P.A. 95-257, S. 57, 58.)

Sec. 19a-1c. Department of Public Health: Successor department to Department of Public Health and Addiction Services. Terms Commissioner or Department of Public Health and Addiction Services deemed to mean Commissioner or Department of Public Health. Section 19a-1c is repealed, e…

Sec. 19a-1d. (Formerly Sec. 19a-3). Commissioner of Public Health: Appointment and qualifications. (a) In accordance with the provisions of sections 4-5 to 4-8, inclusive, the Governor shall appoint a Commissioner of Public Health, who shall be the administrative head of the depa…

Sec. 19a-2. (Formerly Sec. 19-1b). Department of Health Services. Commissioner. Successor department to Department of Health. Section 19a-2 is repealed, effective July 1, 1993. (P.A. 77-614, S. 322, 610; P.A. 93-381, S. 38, 39.)

Sec. 19a-20. (Formerly Sec. 19-4v). Nonliability of complainants and board and commission members. Indemnification and defense. No member of any board or commission subject to the provisions of chapter 368v, chapters 369 to 375, inclusive, 378 to 381, inclusive, 383 to 388, inclu…

Sec. 19a-200. (Formerly Sec. 19-75). City, borough and town directors of health. Environmental health specialists. Authorized agents. (a) The mayor of each city, the chief executive officer of each town and the warden of each borough shall, unless the charter of such city, town o…

Sec. 19a-201. (Formerly Sec. 19-75a). Appointment of director by municipality or district and hospital jointly. Section 19a-201 is repealed, effective July 1, 1997. (1971, P.A. 337; P.A. 78-303, S. 64, 136; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A.…

Sec. 19a-202. (Formerly Sec. 19-75b). Payments to municipalities. Proportionate reduction of amount of payments to municipal health department. (a) Upon application to the Department of Public Health any municipal health department shall annually receive from the state an amount …

Sec. 19a-202a. Requirements re municipality designating itself as having a part-time health department. Any municipality may designate itself as having a part-time health department if: (1) The municipality has not had a full-time health department or been in a full-time health d…

Sec. 19a-202b. Payments to municipalities: Distribution of excess funds. Section 19a-202b is repealed, effective July 1, 2019. (June Sp. Sess. P.A. 99-2, S. 1, 72; P.A. 19-117, S. 398.)

Sec. 19a-203. (Formerly Sec. 19-76). “Director of health” substituted for “health officer”. Section 19a-203 is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (1953, S. 2065d; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)

Sec. 19a-204. (Formerly Sec. 19-77). Certificate of appointment to be filed. The certificate of the appointment of any town, borough or city director of health shall be filed with the Commissioner of Public Health by the person making such appointment, and if such director is als…

Sec. 19a-205. (Formerly Sec. 19-78). Salaries of directors of health. Each town director of health shall be paid by the treasurer of the town in which he has exercised the duties of his office for his actual services and necessary expenses. Bills for actual services and necessary…

Sec. 19a-206. (Formerly Sec. 19-79). Duties of municipal directors of health. Nuisances and sources of filth. Injunctions. Civil penalties. Authority of town director within city or borough. Availability of relocation assistance. (a) Town, city and borough directors of health or …

Sec. 19a-207. (Formerly Sec. 19-80). Duties of local officials. Emergencies. Regulations. The local director of health or his authorized agent or the board of health shall enforce or assist in the enforcement of the Public Health Code and such regulations as may be adopted by the…

Sec. 19a-207a. Basic health program. Each district department of health and municipal health department shall ensure the provision of a basic health program that includes, but is not limited to, the following services for each community served by the district department of health…

Sec. 19a-208. (Formerly Sec. 19-81). Health conferences. Town, city, borough and district directors of health shall attend conferences called by the Department of Public Health to consider matters relating to public health, and the necessary expenses incident to such attendance s…

Sec. 19a-209. (Formerly Sec. 19-83). Jurisdiction of local director of health over streams. The director of health of a town, city or borough contiguous to any stream or body of water which is not wholly within the limits of such town, city or borough shall, in the enforcement of…

Sec. 19a-209a. Permit for wells on residential property near approved community water supply systems. Mitigation or abandonment of irrigation wells. The director of health of a town, city, or borough or of a district health department may issue a permit for the installation or re…

Sec. 19a-209b. Prohibited discontinuance of water service from private residential wells. No person who owns a private residential well that (1) currently supplies or previously supplied water to another household, and (2) provides or previously provided continuous water service …

Sec. 19a-209c. Application for exception to separating distance requirements for repair or new construction of subsurface sewage disposal system. Notice requirements. Approval of application not an affirmative defense to claims relating to contamination. (a) Any person who applie…

Sec. 19a-209d. Permit for replacement public wells. Notwithstanding any provision of title 19a or 25, a director of health of a town, city or borough or of a district department of health appointed pursuant to section 19a-200 or 19a-242 may issue a permit for a replacement public…

Sec. 19a-21. (Formerly Sec. 19-4w). Disposition of licensing fees. All moneys collected by the Department of Public Health in connection with the issuance or renewal of any professional license shall be paid into the State Treasury to the credit of the General Fund. (P.A. 80-484,…