(a) There shall continue to be an energy emergency plan. Said plan may include, but not be limited to, the following: (1) Establishment of programs, controls, standards, priorities and quotas for the allocation, rationing, conservation, distribution and consumption of available energy resources, (2) suspension and modification of existing statutes, standards and requirements affecting or affected by the use of energy resources, (3) adoption of measures affecting the type and composition and production and distribution of energy resources, (4) imposition of price restrictions on energy resources, (5) adoption of measures affecting the hours and days on which public buildings and commercial and industrial establishments may be or are required to remain open or closed, and (6) establishment and implementation of regional programs and agreements for the purpose of coordinating energy resource programs and actions of the state with those of the federal government and of other states and localities. Said plan shall include such levels of energy emergency as the commissioner shall establish.

(b) The commissioner shall prepare or cause to be prepared such amendments to the energy emergency plan as he may deem necessary. Such amendments shall be submitted to the General Assembly no later than fifteen days after the convening of any regular session of the General Assembly following the preparation of such amendments and shall be referred by the speaker of the House of Representatives and the president pro tempore of the Senate to the joint standing committee having cognizance of matters relating to energy. Said committee shall review such amendments and report its recommendations within fifteen days to the General Assembly. The General Assembly may by joint resolution disapprove or reject any section or sections of such amendments within forty-five days after the submittal of such amendments.

(P.A. 74-285, S. 10, 20; P.A. 75-537, S. 6, 55; P.A. 79-572, S. 1, 10; P.A. 88-220, S. 2, 11; P.A. 91-367, S. 4; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 75-537 continued existence of emergency plan, deleting provision which had called for administrator to prepare one, and deleted Subsec. (b) re submission of plan for general assembly's approval; P.A. 79-572 required plan to include levels of emergency established by secretary of office of policy and management and added Subsecs. (b) and (c) re amendments to plan; P.A. 88-220 deleted the 1980 reporting requirement formerly in Subsec. (c); P.A. 91-367 amended Subsec. (a) to authorize the plan to include the imposition of price restrictions on energy resources; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “secretary” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “commissioner”, effective July 1, 2011.