As used in sections 22a-365 to 22a-378, inclusive:

(1) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection;

(2) “Diversion” means any activity which causes, allows or results in the withdrawal from or the alteration, modification or diminution of the instantaneous flow of the waters of the state;

(3) “Divert” means to engage in any act of diversion;

(4) “Instantaneous flow” means the volume of water that would occur in waters at a given point at any given moment;

(5) “Interbasin transfer” means any transfer of waters for use from one subregional drainage basin to another. Subregional drainage basins are those basins delineated on a map compiled by the Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey and entitled “Natural Drainage Basins in Connecticut, 1981”, as amended;

(6) “Municipality” means any metropolitan district, town, consolidated town and city, consolidated town and borough, city, borough, village, fire and sewer district, sewer district and any municipal organization authorized to levy and collect taxes or make charges;

(7) “Person” means any individual, partnership, association, firm, limited liability company, corporation or other entity, except a municipality, and includes the federal government, the state or an instrumentality of the state, and any officer or governing or managing body of a partnership, association, firm or corporation or any member or manager of a limited liability company;

(8) “Regional drainage basins” means those basins delineated on a map compiled by the Connecticut geological and natural history survey and entitled “Natural Drainage Basins in Connecticut, 1981”, as amended;

(9) “Waters” means all tidal waters, harbors, estuaries, rivers, brooks, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, lakes, ponds, marshes, drainage systems and all other surface or underground streams, bodies or accumulations of water, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through or border upon this state or any portion thereof.

(P.A. 82-402, S. 3, 16; P.A. 85-243, S. 3; P.A. 95-79, S. 100, 189; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 85-243 inserted new Subdiv. (8) defining “regional drainage basins”, renumbering former Subdiv. (8) accordingly; P.A. 95-79 redefined “person” to include a limited liability company and any member or manager of a limited liability company, effective May 31, 1995; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Commissioner of Environmental Protection” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection” in Subdiv. (1), effective July 1, 2011.

Cited. 28 CA 674.