The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station shall, within available appropriations and in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, conduct surveillance and testing for the existence of mosquitoes carrying the eastern equine encephalitis virus in accordance with a plan developed and agreed upon by the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection, the Commissioner of Public Health and the director of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. Such plan shall specify procedures to assure that any expenditures for surveillance and testing shall be reasonable and prudent. The director of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station or any person authorized by him to implement the provisions of this section may, at any reasonable time, enter any public or private premises in the performance of his duty.
(P.A. 97-289, S. 7; P.A. 11-80, S. 1; Dec. Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 97-289 effective July 1, 1997; 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; Dec. Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1 added “within available appropriations and”, effective December 21, 2012.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Title 22 - Agriculture. Domestic Animals
Chapter 426 - Agricultural Experiment Stations
Section 22-79. - Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. Board of control.
Section 22-79a. - Office of Aquatic Invasive Species. Established. Duties. Staffing.
Section 22-80. - Meetings of board; officers.
Section 22-81. - Duties of board. Reports.
Section 22-81a. - Testing of mosquitoes for public health threat.
Section 22-81b. - Best practices and guidelines for investigating and treating bed bug infestations.
Section 22-82. - Endowment of agricultural experiment station.
Section 22-82a. - Inventions and discoveries by employees.
Section 22-83. - Research and experiment in tobacco growing.
Section 22-84a. - Research consistent with goals of integrated pest management.
Section 22-88. - State Entomologist; appointment; duties.
Section 22-89. - Registration of honey bees.
Section 22-90a. - Pollinator Advisory Committee. Membership.
Section 22-90b. - Model pollinator habitat. Requirements.
Section 22-91. - Gypsy and brown-tail moths.
Section 22-91a. - Gypsy moth as public nuisance.
Section 22-91b. - Survey of infestation by State Entomologist.
Section 22-91c. - Roadside spraying. State aid.
Section 22-91d. - Assessment of landowners.
Section 22-91e. - Emergency. Appropriations.
Section 22-91f. - Epidemic conditions.
Section 22-96. - Certificate of inspection of imported nursery stock.
Section 22-97. - Nursery and nursery stock defined.
Section 22-98. - Nursery stock; powers of State Entomologist.
Section 22-99. - Nurserymen and dealers to register.
Section 22-100. - Nursery certificate. Uninspected stock.
Section 22-101. - Penalty. Appeal.
Section 22-102. - Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station.
Section 22-103. - Acceptance of certain federal acts.
Section 22-104. - Use of federal funds by experiment stations.