The owner or operator of any resources recovery facility or landfill who fails to notify a municipality about the delivery of loads of solid waste originating from the municipality containing significant quantities of recyclable items, as required by section 22a-220c, shall be subject to a warning by the municipality or the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection for a first violation and to a civil penalty of five hundred dollars for each subsequent violation. The owner or operator of any resources recovery authority or landfill who fails to conduct an inspection when requested by the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection, as required by section 22a-220c, shall for a first violation be subject to a civil penalty of one thousand dollars for each violation and five thousand dollars for each subsequent violation. Any municipality which fails to receive the notification as required, or the Attorney General, at the request of the commissioner, may bring an action under this section. All such actions shall have precedence in the order of trial as provided in section 52-191. Any such action by the Attorney General shall be brought in the superior court for the judicial district of Hartford.

(P.A. 88-230, S. 1, 12; P.A. 90-98, S. 1, 2; 90-249, S. 3; P.A. 93-142, S. 4, 7, 8; P.A. 95-220, S. 4–6; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)

History: (Revisor's note: P.A. 88-230 and P.A. 90-98 authorized substitution of “judicial district of Hartford” for “judicial district of Hartford-New Britain at Hartford” in public and special acts of 1990 session, effective September 1, 1993); P.A. 93-142 changed the effective date of P.A. 88-230 from September 1, 1993, to September 1, 1996, effective June 14, 1993; P.A. 95-220 changed the effective date of P.A. 88-230 from September 1, 1996, to September 1, 1998, effective July 1, 1995; 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.