Within sixty days after the receipt of a complete permit application, the Commissioner of Public Health shall issue a written decision granting or denying the permit and setting forth the reasons for his decision, provided, if the commissioner has utilized the services of a consultant or a professional review team as provided for by section 25-37d, such consultant or review team shall submit to said commissioner, within ninety days of his receipt of such application, a written report of its findings, and said commissioner shall issue his decision within one hundred twenty days of his receipt of such application or within one hundred sixty-five days of the initial submission of the application. The commissioner shall forward a copy of his decision to the applicant, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and the chief executive officer of the town in which the land is located. If no decision is issued within one hundred twenty days after receipt of a complete application or within one hundred sixty-five days of the initial submission of the application, the applicant may submit a written request to the commissioner to issue the permit. If the commissioner does not issue a decision within forty-five days after the submission of such a request, the permit shall be deemed to have been granted.

(P.A. 77-606, S. 6, 10; 77-614, S. 162, 323, 587, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 85, 136; P.A. 80-482, S. 183, 348; P.A. 90-292, S. 2; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-211, S. 3; 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 77-614 and P.A. 78-303 replaced public utilities control authority with division of public utilities control within the department of business regulation, and replaced commissioner of health with commissioner of health services, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division of public utility control an independent department and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; P.A. 90-292 added references to a consultant; P.A. 93-381 replaced commissioner of health services with commissioner of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-211 allowed the commissioner to issue a decision within 165 days of the initial submission of the application and added that if no decision is issued the applicant may request a permit, which is deemed granted after 45 days if there is no decision; 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; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Environmental Protection” and “Department of Public Utility Control” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Department of Energy and Environmental Protection” and “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority”, respectively, effective July 1, 2011.

Cited. 3 CA 53.