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

Sec. 19a-437. (Formerly Sec. 19-551). Information required of applicant. Before the issuance of a license in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, the applicant shall first: (1) Determine the maximum number of people which will be assembled or admitted to the location o…

Sec. 19a-438. (Formerly Sec. 19-552). Application for license. (a) Application for a license to hold an actual or anticipated assembly of two thousand or more persons that continues or can reasonably be expected to continue for twelve or more consecutive hours shall be made, in w…

Sec. 19a-439. (Formerly Sec. 19-553). Issuance of license. If an applicant has complied with all licensure requirements prescribed in this chapter, the chief elected official of the municipality or a designee of the chief elected official shall issue a license for such assembly n…

Sec. 19a-44. (Formerly Sec. 19-15c). Matching of birth and death certificates. To protect the integrity of vital records and to prevent the fraudulent use of birth certificates of deceased persons, the Commissioner of Public Health and the local registrars of vital records are he…

Sec. 19a-440. (Formerly Sec. 19-554). Revocation of license for noncompliance. The chief elected official of the municipality, or a designee of the chief elected official, may revoke a license issued under the provisions of this chapter at any time if the person holding such lice…

Sec. 19a-441. (Formerly Sec. 19-555). Appeal from denial or revocation of license. Any person aggrieved by the denial or revocation of a license under this chapter may appeal therefrom in accordance with the provisions of section 4-183, except venue for such appeal shall be in th…

Sec. 19a-442. (Formerly Sec. 19-556). Injunction. Public nuisance. Fines. (a) The provisions of this chapter may be enforced by injunction in any court of competent jurisdiction. (b) The holding of an assembly in violation of any provision or condition contained in this chapter s…

Sec. 19a-443. (Formerly Sec. 19-557). Exceptions. (a) This chapter shall not apply to any regularly established, permanent place of worship, stadium, athletic field, arena, auditorium, coliseum or other similar permanently established place of assembly for assemblies which do not…

Secs. 19a-445 to 19a-457. Transferred to Chapter 319c, Secs. 17a-270 to 17a-272, inclusive, and 17a-274 to 17a-283, inclusive.

Sec. 19a-45. (Formerly Sec. 19-15d). Transmittal of vital records to other states and the United States Department of Health and Human Services. (a) The Department of Public Health may, by agreement, transmit copies of vital records required by sections 7-42, 7-45, 7-46, 7-47b, 7…

Secs. 19a-458 to 19a-458f. Transferred to Chapter 813, Secs. 46a-11a to 46a-11g, inclusive.

Sec. 19a-45a. Memorandum of understanding between the Commissioners of Public Health and Social Services for improving public health services. The Commissioners of Social Services and Public Health shall enter into a memorandum of understanding for the purpose of improving public…

Sec. 19a-45b. Medical home pilot program. On or after January 1, 2007, and within any available federal or private funds, the Commissioner of Public Health, in consultation with the Commissioner of Social Services, may establish a medical home pilot program in one region of the s…

Sec. 19a-45c. Evaluation and report required re medical home pilot program. Not later than one year following the establishment of the medical home pilot program under section 19a-45b, the Commissioner of Public Health, shall evaluate such pilot program to ascertain specific impr…

Sec. 19a-45d. Development of plan to streamline cross-enrollment of children receiving services under HUSKY A in other supplemental nutrition programs. Fact sheet containing eligibility requirements. Report. (a) Not later than January 1, 2025, the Department of Public Health, in …

Sec. 19a-46. (Formerly Sec. 19-17). Expert examinations and inspections. Said department may, from time to time, engage suitable persons to render sanitary service and to make or supervise practical and scientific investigations and examinations requiring expert skill and to prep…

Secs. 19a-461 to 19a-464h. Transferred to Chapter 319b, Secs. 17a-214 to 17a-225, inclusive.

Sec. 19a-465. (Formerly Sec. 19-572). Diagnostic clinics for the mentally retarded. Funding. Section 19a-465 is repealed. (1959, P.A. 148, S. 34; 1961, P.A. 272; 1971, P.A. 719, S. 2; P.A. 75-638, S. 13, 23; P.A. 79-171, S. 2; P.A. 80-483, S. 86, 186; P.A. 88-28, S. 7, 8.)

Secs. 19a-467a to 19a-467g. Transferred to Chapter 319b, Secs. 17a-231 to 17a-237, inclusive.

Secs. 19a-469 to 19a-475. Transferred to Chapter 319b, Secs. 17a-238 to 17a-244, inclusive.

Sec. 19a-47. (Formerly Sec. 19-18). Information to local authorities. Reports to department. Notification of spills. (a) The Department of Public Health shall cause all proper sanitary information in its possession to be forwarded promptly to the local health authorities of any t…

Secs. 19a-476 to 19a-482. Definitions. Funding and provision of technical assistance and oversight for vocational services for severely disabled individuals. Funding for community work services program. Duties of commissioner re community work services program. Community Work Ser…

Sec. 19a-48. (Formerly Sec. 19-19). Care for children with cerebral palsy. The Department of Public Health shall furnish services for children who have cerebral palsy or who are suffering from conditions which lead to cerebral palsy, such services to include the locating of such …

Secs. 19a-483 to 19a-483b. Transferred to Chapter 319b, Secs. 17a-228 to 17a-230, inclusive.

Sec. 19a-485. Home for the aged deemed to mean residential care home. (a) Whenever the words “home for the aged” or “homes for the aged” are used or referred to in the following sections of the general statutes, the words “residential care home” or “residential care homes”, respe…

Sec. 19a-486. Sale of nonprofit hospitals: Definitions. For purposes of sections 19a-486 to 19a-486h, inclusive: (1) “Nonprofit hospital” means a nonprofit entity licensed as a hospital pursuant to this chapter and any entity affiliated with such a hospital through governance or …

Sec. 19a-486a. Sale of nonprofit hospitals: Certificate of need determination letter. Hearing. Application for approval. (a) No nonprofit hospital shall enter into an agreement to transfer a material amount of its assets or operations or a change in control of operations to a per…

Sec. 19a-486b. Sale of nonprofit hospitals: Approval by Commissioner of Health Strategy and Attorney General. (a) Not later than one hundred twenty days after the date of receipt of the completed application pursuant to subsection (e) of section 19a-486a, the Attorney General and…

Sec. 19a-486c. Sale of nonprofit hospitals: Powers of Attorney General. Grounds for disapproval by Attorney General. (a) The Attorney General shall deny an application as not in the public interest if the Attorney General determines that one or more of the following conditions ex…

Sec. 19a-486d. Sale of nonprofit hospitals: Disapproval by Commissioner of Health Strategy. Powers of Commissioner of Health Strategy. (a) The commissioner shall deny an application filed pursuant to subsection (d) of section 19a-486a unless the commissioner finds that: (1) In a …

Sec. 19a-486e. Sale of nonprofit hospitals: Public hearings. Prior to making any decision to approve, with or without modification, or deny any application filed pursuant to subsection (d) of section 19a-486a, the Attorney General and the commissioner shall jointly conduct one or…

Sec. 19a-486f. Sale of nonprofit hospitals: Appeal. If the commissioner or the Attorney General denies an application filed pursuant to subsection (d) of section 19a-486a, or approves it with modification, the nonprofit hospital or the purchaser may appeal such decision in the sa…

Sec. 19a-486g. Sale of nonprofit hospitals: Denial of license. The Commissioner of Public Health shall refuse to issue a license to, or if issued shall suspend or revoke the license of, a hospital if the commissioner finds, after a hearing and opportunity to be heard, that: (1) T…

Sec. 19a-486h. Sale of nonprofit hospitals: Construction of governing law. Nothing in sections 19a-486 to 19a-486h, inclusive, shall be construed to limit: (1) The common law or statutory authority of the Attorney General; (2) the statutory authority of the Commissioner of Public…

Sec. 19a-486i. Definitions. Notice to Attorney General and Commissioner of Health Strategy of certain mergers, acquisitions and other transactions. Reports. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Affiliation” means the formation of a relationship between two or more entities that perm…

Sec. 19a-486j. Reports required re hospital financial health. (a) On or before October 31, 2024, and semiannually thereafter, each hospital, as defined in section 12-263p, shall submit a report to the Commissioner of Health Strategy that identifies, for each of the two prior cale…

Sec. 19a-487. Mobile field hospital: Defined, board of directors. (a) “Mobile field hospital” means a modular, transportable facility used intermittently, deployed at the discretion of the Governor, or the Governor's designee, (1) for the provision of medical services at a mass g…

Sec. 19a-487a. Mobile field hospital: Certificate of need exemption for hospital beds and related equipment. Any additional mobile field hospital beds and related equipment obtained for the purpose of enhancing the state's bed surge capacity or providing isolation care under the …

Sec. 19a-487b. Mobile field hospital: Regulations. The Commissioner of Public Health shall adopt regulations, in accordance with chapter 54, to implement mobile field hospital policies and procedures for isolation care and emergency services. (P.A. 05-280, S. 67; P.A. 07-252, S. …

Sec. 19a-49. (Formerly Sec. 19-19a). Services for persons with cystic fibrosis. The Department of Public Health shall establish and administer a program of services for children and adults suffering from cystic fibrosis, and for such purpose shall have the same powers as are conf…

Sec. 19a-490. (Formerly Sec. 19-576). Licensing of institutions. Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) “Institution” means a hospital, short-term hospital special hospice, hospice inpatient facility, residential care home, nursing home f…

Sec. 19a-490a. “Community health center” defined. As used in sections 17b-349, 19a-7e and 19a-59b, “community health center” means a public or nonprofit private medical care facility which (1) is not part of a hospital and is organized and operated to provide comprehensive primar…

Sec. 19a-490aa. Health care institution to obtain potable water from bulk water hauler or bottler during water supply shortage. Each health care institution, as defined in section 19a-490, required to obtain potable water as a temporary measure to alleviate a water supply shortag…

Sec. 19a-490b. Furnishing of health records and veterans' information. Access to tissue slides or blocks. Certified document re storage of and access to health records upon cessation of operations. (a) Upon the written request of a patient or the patient's attorney or authorized …

Sec. 19a-490bb. Surgical smoke evacuation system policies for hospitals and outpatient surgical facilities. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Hospital” means an establishment licensed pursuant to chapter 368v for the lodging, care and treatment of persons suffering from disease o…

Sec. 19a-490c. Moratorium on licensing of family care homes. Section 19a-490c is repealed, effective July 11, 2001. (P.A. 92-80, S. 2, 3; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 01-195, S. 180, 181.)