Bill Text: CT HB05310 | 2016 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning Location Of Siting Council Public Hearings.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-05 - File Number 461 [HB05310 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2016-HB05310-Comm_Sub.html

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General Assembly		Substitute Bill No. 5310
February Session, 2016		*_____HB05310ET____031816____*

AN ACT CONCERNING LOCATION OF SITING COUNCIL PUBLIC HEARINGS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 16-50m of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2016):

(a) The council shall promptly fix a commencement date and location for a public hearing on an application for a certificate complying with section 16-50l not less than thirty days after receipt of an application or more than one hundred fifty days after such receipt. [At] If the proposed facility is to be located only in one municipality, the community participation portion of not less than one session of such hearing shall be held at a location, selected by the council, in the municipality in which the facility is to be located after six-thirty p.m. for the convenience of the general public. After holding not less than one hearing session in the municipality in which the facility is to be located, the council may, in its discretion, hold additional hearing sessions at other locations. If the proposed facility is to be located in more than one municipality, at least one session of such hearing shall be held at a location selected by the council in the county in which the facility or any part thereof is to be located after six-thirty p.m. for the convenience of the general public. After holding at least one hearing session in the county in which the facility or any part thereof is to be located, the council may, in its discretion, hold additional hearing sessions at other locations. If the proposed facility is to be located in more than one county, the council shall fix the location for at least one public hearing session in whichever county it determines is most appropriate, provided the council may hold hearing sessions in more than one county.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	July 1, 2016	16-50m(a)

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Joint Favorable Subst.