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

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…

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 Section 19a-1b is repealed, effective July 1, 1995.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 Section 19a-1c is repealed, e…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 Section 19a-2 is repealed, effective July 1, 1993.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 Section 19a-201 is repealed, effective July 1, 1997.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,…

Sec. 19a-210. (Formerly Sec. 19-84). Removal of refuse. Any board of health or borough or town director of health may, upon the written complaint of any person having an interest in any land, cause the removal of refuse and rubbish from such land and shall apportion the expenses …

Sec. 19a-211. (Formerly Sec. 19-85). Toilets in public places. Any owner or person having the care, custody or control of any building, room or premises maintained for or used by the public, who allows any toilet in any such building, room or premises or connected therewith to be…

Sec. 19a-212. (Formerly Sec. 19-86). Nuisance arising from swampy lands. When there exist upon any premises swampy or wet places or depressions in which a foul and unhealthy condition, arising from natural causes, permanently exists, the director of health of the town or the heal…

Sec. 19a-213. (Formerly Sec. 19-87). Mosquito-breeding places; treatment. When it has been brought to the attention of a director of health or board of health that rain water barrels, tin cans, bottles or other receptacles or pools near human habitations are breeding mosquitoes, …

Sec. 19a-214. (Formerly Sec. 19-88a). Procedure for suspension of delivery by fuel oil and bottled gas retailers to rental residences. No person, firm, corporation or partnership supplying fuel oil or bottled gas for the purpose of heating to a residential building which such per…

Sec. 19a-215. (Formerly Sec. 19-89). Commissioner's lists of reportable diseases, emergency illnesses and health conditions and reportable laboratory findings. Reporting requirements. Confidentiality. Fines. (a) For the purposes of this section: (1) “Clinical laboratory” has the …

Sec. 19a-216. (Formerly Sec. 19-89a). Examination or treatment of minor for sexually transmitted disease. Confidentiality. Liability for costs. (a) Any municipal health department, state institution or facility, licensed physician or public or private hospital or clinic, may exam…

Sec. 19a-216a. Examination and treatment of persons at communicable disease control clinics. Confidentiality. (a) For the purposes of this section: (1) “Communicable disease control clinic” means a state or local health department funded clinic established for the purpose of prov…

Secs. 19a-217 and 19a-218. (Formerly Secs. 19-90 and 19-91). Prohibiting communication between towns. Notice of communicable disease in hotels and lodging houses. Sections 19a-217 and 19a-218 are repealed, effective July 1, 1997. (1949 Rev., S. 3869, 3870; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. …

Sec. 19a-219. (Formerly Sec. 19-92). Prevention of blindness in newborn infants. (a) Any inflammation, swelling or unusual redness in the eyes of any infant, either apart from or with any unnatural discharge from the eyes of such infant, occurring at any time within two weeks aft…

Sec. 19a-22. (Formerly Sec. 19-4x). Actions by department, boards and commissions; appeals. Any practitioner aggrieved by any final decision of a board or commission or the department may appeal therefrom in accordance with the provisions of section 4-183. (P.A. 80-484, S. 172, 1…

Sec. 19a-220. (Formerly Sec. 19-93). Enforcement of orders of health authorities. When any person refuses to obey a legal order given by a director of health, health committee or board of health, or endeavors to prevent it from being carried into effect, a judge of the Superior C…

Sec. 19a-221. (Formerly Sec. 19-94). Order of quarantine or isolation of certain persons. Appeal of order. Hearing. (a) Any town, city, borough or district director of health may order any person isolated or quarantined whom such director has reasonable grounds to believe to be i…

Sec. 19a-222. (Formerly Sec. 19-95). Vaccination. Directors of health and boards of health may adopt such measures for the general vaccination of the inhabitants of their respective towns, cities or boroughs as they deem reasonable and necessary in order to prevent the introducti…

Sec. 19a-223. (Formerly Sec. 19-96). Municipalities may contract for health services. (a) Any municipal departments of health, pursuant to municipal charter or ordinance, and health districts may contract among themselves for the joint use or benefit of the municipality for servi…

Sec. 19a-224. (Formerly Sec. 19-97). Fish scrap and fertilizer. No fertilizer, fish scrap or similar offensive substance shall be loaded upon or unloaded from any vessel in New London Harbor between June first and October first, or at any other time without a written permit obtai…

Sec. 19a-225. (Formerly Sec. 19-98). Manufacture and treatment of oil and garbage. Processing of fish for animal consumption in Stonington. No person or corporation shall, within the town of Waterford, East Lyme, Old Lyme or Stonington, or in any waters adjacent thereto, engage i…

Sec. 19a-226. (Formerly Sec. 19-99). Unloading and transportation of fertilizers. Unless otherwise provided, city and borough directors of health shall have power to make orders and regulations controlling the time during which, and the manner in which, manure and other fertilize…

Sec. 19a-227. (Formerly Sec. 19-101). Anchorage of houseboats. The director of health of any town, city or borough may designate limits within the navigable waters of the state, outside the channel and adjacent to any public or private bathing beach or bathing house, within which…

Sec. 19a-228. (Formerly Sec. 19-102). Penalty for anchoring within designated limits. Any person having immediate charge of any such houseboat or other vessel, while so used as a dwelling place, who anchors or moors the same or keeps the same anchored or moored within the limits …

Sec. 19a-229. (Formerly Sec. 19-103). Appeal. Any person aggrieved by an order issued by a town, city or borough director of health may appeal to the Commissioner of Public Health not later than three business days after the date of such person's receipt of such order, who shall …