(a) As used in this section “water company” means a water company, as defined in section 25-32a, and “petition” includes a petition or proposal to change the regulations, boundaries or classifications of zoning districts.

(b) When an application, petition, request or plan is filed with the zoning commission, planning and zoning commission or zoning board of appeals of any municipality concerning any project on any site that is within the aquifer protection area delineated pursuant to section 22a-354c or the watershed of a water company, the applicant or the person making the filing shall provide written notice of the application, petition, request or plan to the water company and the Commissioner of Public Health in a format prescribed by said commissioner, provided such water company or said commissioner has filed a map showing the boundaries of the watershed on the land records of the municipality in which the application, petition, request or plan is made and with the planning commission, zoning commission, planning and zoning commission or zoning board of appeals of such municipality or the aquifer protection area has been delineated in accordance with section 22a-354c, as the case may be. Such notice shall be made by certified mail, return receipt requested, and shall be mailed not later than seven days after the date of the application. Such water company and the Commissioner of Public Health may, through a representative, appear and be heard at any hearing on any such application, petition, request or plan.

(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, when an agent of the zoning commission, planning and zoning commission or zoning board of appeals is authorized to approve an application, petition, request or plan concerning any site that is within the aquifer protection area delineated pursuant to section 22a-354c or the watershed of a water company without the approval of the zoning commission, planning and zoning commission or zoning board of appeals, and such agent determines that the proposed activity will not adversely affect the public water supply, the applicant or person making the filing shall not be required to notify the water company or the Commissioner of Public Health.

(P.A. 89-301, S. 2; P.A. 91-300, S. 3; P.A. 98-115; P.A. 06-53, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 91-300 revised the statutory definition of water company by changing the statutory definition reference from Sec. 16-1 to Sec. 25-32a; P.A. 98-115 added Subsec. (a) defining “water company” and “petition”, designated existing provisions Subsec. (b) and amended Subsec. (b) to require notice of projects in aquifer protection areas and added Subsec. (c) re approvals by agents of land use agencies without notice under this section; P.A. 06-53 amended Subsec. (b) to require the Commissioner of Public Health to receive notice of proposed activity on sites within acquifer protection areas or water company watersheds, to give said commissioner the right to appear and be heard at any hearing on any such proposed activity and to provide for the filing of maps showing the boundaries of the watershed with the local planning commission, amended Subsec. (c) to add the Commissioner of Public Health to the notification exemption and made technical changes throughout.