(a) Each water company, as defined in section 25-32a, serving one thousand or more persons or two hundred fifty or more consumers, as defined in section 25-32a, shall annually provide to residential customers, without charge, educational materials or information on (1) water conservation, (2) water supply source protection methods, including methods to reduce contamination, and (3) on or before July 1, 2002, and annually thereafter, information developed by the Commissioner of Public Health, pursuant to subsection (b) of this section, on the health effects and sources of lead and copper. Every year each public water company shall provide a copy of these educational materials to the Commissioner of Public Health.
(b) The Commissioner of Public Health shall, within available resources, develop, in consultation with public water suppliers, public education materials on health effects and sources of lead and copper, which shall be distributed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.
(c) The Commissioner of Public Health may impose a civil penalty on any water company that violates the provisions of this section. In imposing such civil penalty, the commissioner shall comply with the procedures set forth in section 25-32e, except that the amount shall not exceed five thousand dollars per violation. Each year the company fails to offer educational materials or information on water conservation shall be deemed to be a separate violation.
(P.A. 94-144, S. 2, 6; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; 95-329, S. 7, 31; P.A. 96-100, S. 1; P.A. 01-185, S. 3.)
History: P.A. 94-144 effective July 1, 1994; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 95-329 limited water companies referred to in Subsec. (a) to those serving 1,000 or more persons or 250 or more consumers, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 96-100 required that information on water supply source protection methods be disclosed to residential customers; P.A. 01-185 amended Subsec. (a) to provide that each water company shall, on or before July 1, 2002, and annually thereafter, provide to its customers information developed by the commissioner on the health effects and sources of lead and copper, added a new Subsec. (b) to require the commissioner to develop, in consultation with public water suppliers, such information, and designated the existing Subsec. (b) as Subsec. (c).
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