If the State Entomologist declares that an emergency exists because of the prevalence of gypsy moths, he may so certify to the Finance Advisory Committee. The Finance Advisory Committee may thereupon add from the resources of the General Fund to the appropriation of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection sufficient funds, not to exceed thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars for the fiscal year to carry out the provisions of sections 22-91a to 22-91f, inclusive, and to said department a sum, not to exceed four thousand dollars for the fiscal year to spray such state-owned roadside land as is certified to be infested.
(1967, P.A. 446, S. 5; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 204; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)
History: 1971 act replaced appropriations to state board of pesticide control and state park and forest commission with appropriations to department of environmental protection, substituted “fiscal year” for “biennium” and halved appropriation amounts accordingly; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Environmental Protection” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Department of Energy and Environmental Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.
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.