Connecticut General Statutes 22a-367 – Definitions
As used in sections 22a-365 to 22a-378, inclusive:
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 22a-367
- another: may extend and be applied to communities, companies, corporations, public or private, limited liability companies, societies and associations. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
- commissioner: means the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection or his or her designated agent. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-2
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
(1) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection;
(2) “Diversion” means any activity which causes, allows or results in the withdrawal from or the alteration, modification or diminution of the instantaneous flow of the waters of the state;
(3) “Divert” means to engage in any act of diversion;
(4) “Instantaneous flow” means the volume of water that would occur in waters at a given point at any given moment;
(5) “Interbasin transfer” means any transfer of waters for use from one subregional drainage basin to another. Subregional drainage basins are those basins delineated on a map compiled by the Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey and entitled “Natural Drainage Basins in Connecticut, 1981”, as amended;
(6) “Municipality” means any metropolitan district, town, consolidated town and city, consolidated town and borough, city, borough, village, fire and sewer district, sewer district and any municipal organization authorized to levy and collect taxes or make charges;
(7) “Person” means any individual, partnership, association, firm, limited liability company, corporation or other entity, except a municipality, and includes the federal government, the state or an instrumentality of the state, and any officer or governing or managing body of a partnership, association, firm or corporation or any member or manager of a limited liability company;
(8) “Regional drainage basins” means those basins delineated on a map compiled by the Connecticut geological and natural history survey and entitled “Natural Drainage Basins in Connecticut, 1981”, as amended;
(9) “Waters” means all tidal waters, harbors, estuaries, rivers, brooks, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, lakes, ponds, marshes, drainage systems and all other surface or underground streams, bodies or accumulations of water, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through or border upon this state or any portion thereof.