Bill Text: CT SB00384 | 2010 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

Connecticut Senate Bill 384 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: An Act Concerning Reimbursement To Municipalities For The Cost Of Responding To Emergencies In State Parks.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-24 - Favorable Change of Reference, House to Committee on Appropriations [SB00384 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2010-SB00384-Comm_Sub.html

General Assembly		*Substitute Bill No. 384*
*February Session, 2010*		_____SB00384ENVAPP031910____

AN ACT CONCERNING REIMBURSEMENT TO MUNICIPALITIES FOR THE COST OF RESPONDING TO EMERGENCIES IN STATE PARKS.

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

Section 1. Section 23-15a of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):

(a) The Commissioner of Environmental Protection shall, within available appropriations, reimburse municipalities for necessary costs incurred when the use of a state park in those municipalities is so great as to impede traffic, limit the movement of emergency vehicles or create a risk of a breach of peace or a threat to public safety.

(b) The Commissioner of Environmental Protection shall, within available appropriations, reimburse a municipality for necessary costs incurred by the municipality when the police department, fire department or ambulance service of such municipality responds to an emergency in a state park.