Connecticut General Statutes 22a-439b – Southeastern Connecticut Water Authority may acquire and operate sewerage systems
(a) The Southeastern Connecticut Water Authority may acquire and operate sewerage systems, provided that the service area of the sewerage system to be acquired is generally congruent with the service area of a water supply and distribution system owned and operated by Southeastern Connecticut Water Authority.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 22a-439b
- municipality: means any metropolitan district, town, consolidated town and city, consolidated town and borough, city, borough, village, fire and sewer district, sewer district and each municipal organization having authority to levy and collect taxes or make charges for its authorized function. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
- pollution: means harmful thermal effect or the contamination or rendering unclean or impure or prejudicial to public health of any waters of the state by reason of any wastes or other material discharged or deposited therein by any public or private sewer or otherwise so as directly or indirectly to come in contact with any waters. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
(b) All provisions of special act number 381 of 1967, as amended by special act number 206 of 1969, numbers 64, 133 and 95 of 1973, number 54 of 1976 and number 38 of 1981, which apply to acquisitions and operation of water systems, shall apply to sewerage systems.
(c) The provisions of this section shall not apply to sewerage systems owned or operated by a municipality or a municipal water pollution control authority unless the municipal owner of such system voluntarily transfers the ownership of such system to the Southeastern Connecticut Water Authority.
(d) The Southeastern Connecticut Water Authority shall, in the operation of sewerage systems, comply with the laws and regulations of the United States of America and the state of Connecticut.