The Commissioner of Public Health may enter into contracts with consultants to provide services to water utility coordinating committees. The amount of any contract shall not exceed two hundred fifty thousand dollars. Any appropriation made to the Department of Public Health for the purposes of this section shall not lapse until the Department of Public Health has completed the planning process for a water utility coordinating committee.
(P.A. 85-535, S. 8, 13; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 98-89; P.A. 14-217, S. 200.)
History: P.A. 93-381 replaced department and commissioner of health services with department and commissioner of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 98-89 changed “one contract per year with a consultant” to “contracts with consultants”, changed “coordinating committee” to “coordinating committees”, changed the dollar limit from $100 to $200, and changed the lapse date from June 30 of the second year following the appropriations to when the department has completed the planning process; P.A. 14-217 changed maximum amount of any contract from $200,000 to $250,000 and made a technical change, effective July 1, 2014.