There shall continue to be maintained from the income received in administering section 22a-314, an equipment account, which shall be a separate, nonlapsing account within the General Fund, for the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection. The commissioner may use said account for the purchase and maintenance of equipment, provided no single article of equipment shall be purchased from said account at a cost of more than one thousand dollars without the approval of the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may at his discretion make state equipment available to any soil and water conservation district.

(1949 Rev., S. 3064; 1959, P.A. 637, S. 2; 1961, P.A. 67; 1963, P.A. 23; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 123; P.A. 74-325, S. 3, 5; P.A. 77-614, S. 19, 610; P.A. 86-312, S. 8, 21; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)

History: 1959 act replaced commissioner of agriculture with commissioner of agriculture, conservation and natural resources; 1961 act replaced commissioner of agriculture, conservation and natural resources with commissioner of agriculture and natural resources; 1963 act authorized commissioner to make state equipment available to soil and water conservation districts; 1971 act replaced commissioner of agriculture and natural resources with commissioner of environmental protection; P.A. 74-325 did not change section; P.A. 77-614 replaced commissioner of finance and control with secretary of the office of policy and management; Sec. 25-105 transferred to Sec. 22a-316 in 1983; P.A. 86-312 changed equipment “fund” from a revolving fund to a separate nonlapsing “account” within the general fund; 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.