Any person who violates, continues or maintains any violation of any provision of sections 22a-359 to 22a-363f, inclusive, or violates, continues or maintains a violation of any term or condition of any permit, certificate, authorization or order issued pursuant to said sections shall be liable for a civil penalty of not more than one thousand dollars for each offense. Each violation shall be a separate and distinct offense and in the case of a continuing violation each day's continuance thereof shall be deemed to be a separate and distinct offense. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may request the Attorney General to bring a civil action in the superior court for the judicial district of Hartford to seek imposition and recovery of such civil penalty.
(P.A. 87-438, S. 3; P.A. 88-230, S. 1, 12; 88-364, S. 43, 123; P.A. 90-98, S. 1, 2; 90-111, S. 6; P.A. 93-142, S. 4, 7, 8; P.A. 95-218, S. 8, 24; 95-220, S. 4–6; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 88-230 replaced “judicial district of Hartford-New Britain at Hartford” with “judicial district of Hartford”, effective September 1, 1991; P.A. 88-364 made technical change; P.A. 90-98 changed the effective date of P.A. 88-230 from September 1, 1991, to September 1, 1993; P.A. 90-111 provided that the penalty applies to a person who violates any provision of Secs. 22a-359 to 22a-361 or violates the conditions of a permit, certificate, authorization or order and deleted the provision that the penalty applies to a person who places a structure in waters without a permit or in violation of the terms of a permit; P.A. 93-142 changed the effective date of P.A. 88-230 from September 1, 1993, to September 1, 1996, effective June 14, 1993; P.A. 95-218 added violations of Secs. 22a-362 to 22a-363f, inclusive, to the scope of this section's penalty provisions; P.A. 95-220 changed the effective date of P.A. 88-230 from September 1, 1996, to September 1, 1998, effective July 1, 1995; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Commissioner of Environmental Protection” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.
Cited. 215 C. 616.