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The record
- Jurisdiction
- Connecticut
- Level
- State
- Authority
- 1949 Rev. §§ 3806, 3873, 3875, as amended; police power of the State exercised through local directors of health
- Issued
- 2020-12-06 Dec. 6, 2020
- Effective
- standing; text in force throughout March 2020 to September 2021 (Wayback capture of December 6, 2020) (read as 2020-12-06)
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing since Dec. 6, 2020 (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureQuarantine and isolationStanding dutyOperating condition
- Addressees
- owners or persons in control of premises ('any owner or occupant of any property'); persons generally (§ 19a-230); local directors of health and boards of health
- Character
- statutory duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Connecticut DUT-CT
Operative words
Any owner or occupant of any property who maintains such property, whether real or personal, or any part thereof, in a manner which violates the provisions of the Public Health Code enacted pursuant to the authority of sections 19a-36 and 19a-37 shall be deemed to be maintaining a nuisance or source of filth injurious to the public health.
Penalty
§ 19a-206(b)(2): civil penalty of $250 per day for each day the nuisance is maintained after the director's deadline; § 19a-206(b)(1), (c): injunction, including ex parte injunction where the nuisance is 'an immediate hazard to the health of persons'; § 19a-206(b)(3): liability under §§ 19a-36, 19a-220 and 19a-230; § 19a-230: class C misdemeanor for violating any provision of the chapter or 'any legal order of a director of health or board of health'
What it required
Every owner or occupant of property to keep it in compliance with the Public Health Code on pain of an abatement order, injunction, closure and a civil penalty of $250 per day (§ 19a-206(a)-(c)); local directors of health to enforce the Code (§ 19a-207) and, during a declared public health emergency, to 'comply with and carry out any order the Commissioner of Public Health issues in furtherance of the Governor's order' (§ 19a-221(a)); any person to obey 'any legal order of a director of health or board of health' (§ 19a-230).
Retrieval noteEO 7PP § 2 (Ex. CT-018) and EO 11A (Ex. CT-041) modified § 19a-206 and Regs. § 19-13-B1 to make a violation of the DECD Sector Rules a public nuisance and to authorize local and district health directors and Municipal Designees 'to order the closure' of a business 'until such time as... the business has abated the nuisance by coming into compliance with the Sector Rules.' § 19a-206(d): the town director of health 'shall have and exercise all the power for preserving the public health and preventing the spread of diseases.' The file date in the name is a compilation placeholder; the saved text is the December 2020 compilation.