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

Sec. 19a-329. (Formerly Sec. 19-169p). Definitions. As used in this chapter, “carcinogenic substance” means: 2-Acetylaminofluorene, 4-Aminodiphenyl, Arsenic, Asbestos, Benzene, Benzidine, 3,3'-Dichlorobenzidine, 4-Dimethylaminoazobenzene, Beta-Napthylamine, 4-Nitrobiphenyl, N-Nit…

Sec. 19a-32a. AIDS research education account. Regulations. (a) There is established an AIDS research education account which shall be a separate, nonlapsing account within the General Fund. Any moneys collected under the contribution system established under section 12-743 shall…

Sec. 19a-32b. Breast cancer research and education account. There is established a breast cancer research and education account which shall be a separate, nonlapsing account within the General Fund. Any moneys collected under the contribution system established under section 12-7…

Sec. 19a-32c. (Note: This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.) Biomedical Research Trust Fund. Transfers from Tobacco Settlement Fund. Grants-in-aid. There is created a Biomedical Research Trust Fund which shall be a separate nonlapsing fund. The trust fund may contain a…

Secs. 19a-32d to 19a-32g. Transferred to Chapter 581, Secs. 32-41jj to 32-41mm, inclusive.

Secs. 19a-32h to 19a-32l. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 19a-32m. Information request concerning establishment of public cord blood collection operation. (a) On or before October 1, 2007, the Commissioner of Public Health shall request information from one or more umbilical cord blood banks concerning the establishment of a public…

Sec. 19a-32n. Information re umbilical cord blood collection programs. A physician or other health care provider who provides health care services to a pregnant woman during the last trimester of her pregnancy, which health care services are directly related to her pregnancy, sha…

Secs. 19a-32o to 19a-32v. Short title: Connecticut Umbilical Cord Blood Collection Program Act. Legislative findings and declaration of policy. Connecticut Umbilical Cord Blood Collection Board; membership; meetings. Board to establish and administer umbilical cord blood collecti…

Sec. 19a-33. (Formerly Sec. 19-10a). Regulation of traffic at department facilities. The superintendent or director of any state-operated facility within the Department of Public Health, subject to the approval of the Commissioner of Public Health and the Office of the State Traf…

Sec. 19a-330. (Formerly Sec. 19-169q). Report required; contents. Any person who uses or produces any carcinogenic substance in the manufacture of any item, product or material shall make an annual report to the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection and the Commissi…

Sec. 19a-331. (Formerly Sec. 19-169r). Identification of carcinogenic substances. Regulations. The Commissioner of Public Health shall, by means of regulations adopted in accordance with chapter 54, identify substances, including gases, chemicals or metals, which are designated h…

Sec. 19a-332. Definitions: Asbestos. As used in subsection (c) of section 19a-14 and sections 19a-332 to 19a-332e, inclusive, 20-435 to 20-442, inclusive, and 52-577a: (1) “Asbestos” means the asbestiform varieties of actinolite, amosite, anthophyllite, chrysotile, crocidolite an…

Sec. 19a-332a. Regulations. Fees. (a) The commissioner, within available appropriations, and after consultation with the Labor Commissioner, shall adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 to administer the provisions of sections 19a-332 to 19a-332c, inclu…

Sec. 19a-332b. Notice. Any contractor who will be conducting asbestos abatement activities or any person who will be conducting demolition activities shall notify the commissioner at least ten days prior to undertaking such activities and shall provide him with any information on…

Sec. 19a-332c. Inspections. Orders issued by commissioner. Court order. (a) For purposes of enforcing the provisions of sections 19a-332 to 19a-332c, inclusive, and section 19a-333 and any regulations adopted thereunder, the commissioner or an authorized agent may enter at reason…

Sec. 19a-332d. Criminal penalties. Any person who knowingly violates any provision of sections 19a-332 to 19a-332c, inclusive, section 19a-333 or sections 20-435 to 20-439, inclusive, shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, or imprisoned for not more than one year or …

Sec. 19a-332e. Civil penalties. Regulations. (a) If, upon review, investigation or inspection, the Commissioner of Public Health determines that any person has violated any provision of sections 19a-332 to 19a-332c, inclusive, 19a-333 and 20-435 to 20-439, inclusive, or any regul…

Sec. 19a-333. Regulations re asbestos-containing materials in schools. The Department of Public Health shall adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 which shall meet or exceed the requirements mandated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency…

Sec. 19a-334. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 19a-335. (Formerly Sec. 19-310). Nuisances on highways. If any person places anything, or permits anything to remain, in a highway, or digs up the ground therein, by which the passage of travelers is obstructed or endangered or the highway encumbered, the same shall be a com…

Sec. 19a-336. (Formerly Sec. 19-311). Obstruction of watercourse. If any person unlawfully dams or obstructs a watercourse to the special damage of another, such diversion or obstruction shall be a common nuisance and may be abated as such. Any person who violates any provision o…

Sec. 19a-337. (Formerly Sec. 19-312). Rubbish deposited in streams. Any person who wilfully deposits material in any watercourse where it will naturally be carried to the land of another to his injury shall pay to the party injured thereby double damages and costs, unless, within…

Sec. 19a-338. (Formerly Sec. 19-313). Obstruction of navigable waters. Any person who places any material which tends to obstruct navigation in navigable waters shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars, and such person shall be ordered by the court before which the convic…

Sec. 19a-339. (Formerly Sec. 19-314). Obstructions in Connecticut River. Any person who unlawfully sinks any material in the Connecticut River for the purpose of obstructing the water or turning it from its natural course, or for making or enlarging any island, shall pay the expe…

Sec. 19a-34. (Formerly Sec. 19-11). Administration of federal funds for hospital survey and construction. The Department of Public Health is designated as the state agency to administer the Hospital Survey and Construction Act authorized under Title VI, Construction of Hospitals,…

Sec. 19a-340. (Formerly Sec. 19-315). Nuisances created by filthy water. Any person who places, collects or allows to remain upon the surface of land owned or occupied by him, or discharges or allows to be discharged from his premises upon the land of another or upon any public l…

Sec. 19a-341. Agricultural or farming operation not deemed a nuisance; exceptions. Spring or well water collection operation not deemed a nuisance. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general statute or municipal ordinance or regulation pertaining to nuisances to the contra…

Sec. 19a-341a. Maintenance of swine gestation and farrowing barn. Permissible location. Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes or the regulations of Connecticut state agencies, a swine gestation and farrowing barn maintained on property which has been in continuous…

Sec. 19a-342. (Formerly Sec. 1-21b). Smoking prohibited. Exceptions. Signs required. Penalties. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Smoke” or “smoking” means the burning of a lighted cigarette, cigar, pipe or any other similar device, whether containing, wholly or in part, tobacco,…

Sec. 19a-342a. Use of electronic nicotine or cannabis delivery system or vapor product prohibited. Exceptions. Signage required. Penalties. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Any area” means the interior of the facility, building or establishment and the outside area within twenty…

Sec. 19a-343. State action to abate public nuisance. Offenses. (a) For the purposes of this section and sections 19a-343a to 19a-343h, inclusive, a person creates or maintains a public nuisance if such person erects, establishes, maintains, uses, owns or leases any real property …

Sec. 19a-343a. Commencement of action to abate public nuisance. Temporary ex parte order. Hearing. Defendants. Financial institutions. Affirmative defense. (a) The Chief State's Attorney or a deputy chief state's attorney, state's attorney or assistant or deputy assistant state's…

Sec. 19a-343b. Remedies and relief necessary to abate public nuisance. In any proceeding to abate a public nuisance, the state may request such remedies or relief as are reasonably necessary to abate the nuisance including, but not limited to, orders for repair or alteration to t…

Sec. 19a-343c. Intentional violation of temporary order. Penalty. Any person who intentionally violates a temporary order issued pursuant to sections 19a-343 to 19a-343h, inclusive, may be fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than six months, or both, in…

Sec. 19a-343d. Appointment of receiver. Powers and duties. Accounts. Removal by court. Final accounting. Liability of receiver. (a) The court may, upon application of the state, appoint a receiver to operate and manage the property or any portion thereof in accordance with the pr…

Sec. 19a-343e. Court orders re abatement of public nuisance. Jurisdiction. State shall post copy order and notice re penalty for removal or destruction of order. Modification or vacation of order. Bond. Application to close property. Order. (a) If the court finds by clear and con…

Sec. 19a-343f. Dispossession or dislocation of tenants. Imposition of costs of prosecution and repairs upon defendant. Authorization by state to make repairs and alterations. Judgment lien against defendant. Intentional violation of court order. (a) In any case where dispossessio…

Sec. 19a-343g. Enforcement of court orders by inspectors of Division of Criminal Justice or state or municipal police officer. Indemnification of municipality for liabilities of municipal police officer deemed employee of state. (a) The state may use an inspector of the Division …

Sec. 19a-343h. Availability of other remedies not bar to action to abate public nuisance. Availability to the state of other remedies at law or equity shall not prevent the granting of relief under sections 19a-343 to 19a-343h, inclusive. (P.A. 98-220, S. 9, 10.) History: P.A. 98…

Sec. 19a-344. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 19a-345. (Formerly Sec. 19-316). Houses of assignation, lewdness and prostitution, nuisances. Any person who erects, establishes, maintains, uses, owns or leases any building or place used for the purpose of lewdness, assignation or prostitution shall be guilty of maintainin…

Sec. 19a-346. (Formerly Sec. 19-317). Injunction. Whenever a nuisance is kept or maintained, as defined in this chapter, the state's attorney for the judicial district in which such nuisance is located or any citizen of such judicial district may maintain an action in the Superio…

Sec. 19a-347. (Formerly Sec. 19-318). Disobeying injunction; penalty. In case of the violation of any injunction granted under the provisions of this chapter or of any restraining order or in case of the commission of any contempt of court under any proceedings under the provisio…

Sec. 19a-348. (Formerly Sec. 19-319). Judgment and abatement; fees. If the existence of the nuisance is admitted or established in an action under this chapter or in a criminal proceeding, an order of abatement shall be entered as a part of the judgment, which order shall direct …

Sec. 19a-349. (Formerly Sec. 19-320). Action by state's attorney. Fines. When the existence of any such nuisance has been established, the state's attorney shall proceed promptly, and all money collected shall be paid to the State Treasurer. The proceeds of the sale of the person…

Sec. 19a-35. (Formerly Sec. 19-12). Federal funds for health services to children. Advisory board. (a) The Department of Public Health is designated as the state agency to receive and administer federal funds which may become available for health services to children. (b) The Com…

Sec. 19a-350. (Formerly Sec. 19-321). Owner may give bond. If the owner of the premises in which such nuisance has been maintained appears and pays the costs taxed by the court and files a bond with sureties approved by the court to the amount of the value of the property, condit…

Sec. 19a-351. (Formerly Sec. 19-322). Penalty upon issuance of permanent injunction. Whenever a permanent injunction is issued against any person for maintaining a nuisance as above provided, or against any owner or agent of any building kept or used for such purpose, there shall…

Sec. 19a-352. (Formerly Sec. 19-323). Nuisance. Penalty. When such nuisance has been found to exist, and the owner or agent of the building wherein or ground whereon the nuisance has been found to exist was not a party to such proceeding and did not appear in such proceeding, a p…