(a) The Attorney General, at the request of the commissioner, shall institute a civil action in the superior court for the judicial district of Hartford or for the judicial district wherein the subject land is located for injunctive or other equitable relief to enforce an environmental land use restriction, a notice of activity and use limitation or the provisions of sections 22a-133n to 22a-133q, inclusive, and regulations adopted pursuant to said sections or to recover a civil penalty pursuant to subsection (e) of this section.

(b) The commissioner may issue orders pursuant to sections 22a-6 and 22a-7 to enforce an environmental land use restriction, a notice of activity and use limitation or the provisions of sections 22a-133n to 22a-133q, inclusive, and regulations adopted pursuant to said sections.

(c) In any administrative or civil proceeding instituted by the commissioner to enforce an environmental land use restriction, a notice of activity and use limitation or the provisions of sections 22a-133n to 22a-133q, inclusive, and regulations adopted pursuant to said sections, any other person may intervene as a matter of right.

(d) In any civil or administrative action to enforce an environmental land use restriction, a notice of activity and use limitation or the provisions of sections 22a-133n to 22a-133q, inclusive, and regulations adopted thereunder, the owner of the subject land, and any lessee thereof, shall be strictly liable for any violation of such restriction, limitation or the provisions of sections 22a-133n to 22a-133q, inclusive, and regulations adopted pursuant to said sections and shall be jointly and severally liable for abating such violation.

(e) Any owner of land with respect to which an environmental land use restriction or a notice of activity and use limitation applies, and any lessee of such land, who violates any provision of such restriction or limitation or violates the provisions of sections 22a-133n to 22a-133q, inclusive, and regulations adopted pursuant to said sections shall be assessed a civil penalty under section 22a-438. The penalty provided in this subsection shall be in addition to any injunctive or other equitable relief.

(P.A. 88-230, S. 1, 2; P.A. 90-98, S. 1, 2; P.A. 93-142, S. 4, 7, 8; P.A. 94-198, S. 6, 13; P.A. 95-190, S. 13, 17; 95-220, S. 4–6; P.A. 11-141, S. 13; P.A. 13-308, S. 34.)

History: P.A. 94-198 effective June 7, 1994 (Revisor's note: P.A. 88-230, P.A. 90-98 and P.A. 93-142 authorized substitution of “judicial district of Hartford” for “judicial district of Hartford-New Britain” in public and special acts of the 1994 regular and special sessions, effective September 1, 1996); P.A. 95-190 amended Subsec. (a) to correct an internal reference, effective June 29, 1995; P.A. 95-220 changed the effective date of P.A. 88-230 from September 1, 1996, to September 1, 1998, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 11-141 added references to provisions of Secs. 22a-133n to 22a-133q and regulations adopted thereunder, effective July 8, 2011; P.A. 13-308 changed references from environmental use restriction to environmental land use restriction, added references to notice of activity and use limitation and made technical changes.