Sec. 16-32e. Emergency plans to be filed by public service companies, telecommunications companies and municipal utilities. Hearings. Revisions. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 16-32e. Emergency plans to be filed by public service companies, telecommunications companies and municipal utilities. Hearings. Revisions. (a) As used in this section, "emergency" means any (1) hurricane, tornado, storm, flood, high water, wind-driven water, tidal wave, tsunami, earthquake, volcanic eruption, landslide, mudslide, snowstorm, drought or fire explosion or (2) attack or series of attacks by an enemy of the United States causing, or which may cause, substantial damage or injury to civilian property or persons in the United States in any manner by sabotage or by the use of bombs, shellfire or atomic, radiological, chemical, bacteriological or biological means or other weapons or processes.

      (b) Not later than June 1, 1996, and every five years thereafter, each public service company, as defined in section 16-1, each telecommunications company, as defined in said section, that installs, maintains, operates or controls poles, wires, conduits or other fixtures under or over any public highway for the provision of telecommunications service authorized by section 16-247c, and each municipal utility furnishing electric, gas or water service shall file with the Department of Public Utility Control, the Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security and each municipality located within the service area of the public service company, telecommunications company or municipal utility an updated plan for restoring service which is interrupted as a result of an emergency, except no such plan shall be required of a public service company or municipal utility that submits a water supply plan pursuant to section 25-32d. Plans filed by public service companies and municipal utilities furnishing water shall be prepared in accordance with the memorandum of understanding entered into pursuant to section 4-67e. Not later than September 15, 1996, and every five years thereafter, the Department of Public Utility Control may conduct public hearings on such plans and, in consultation with the Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security, the Department of Public Health and the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to public utilities, revise such plans to the extent necessary to provide properly for the public convenience, necessity and welfare. If the Department of Public Utility Control revises the emergency plan of a public service company, telecommunications company or municipal utility, such company or municipal utility shall file a copy of the revised plan with each municipality located within the service area of the company.

      (P.A. 86-204, S. 1, 2; P.A. 88-135, S. 2; P.A. 89-291, S. 4, 8; 89-327, S. 3, 7; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 96-46, S. 1; P.A. 97-92; P.A. 04-219, S. 6.)

      History: P.A. 88-135 substituted office of "emergency management" for office of "civil preparedness" in Subsec. (b); P.A. 89-291 changed date of initial report and hearing in Subsec. (b); P.A. 89-327 amended Subsec. (b) to require that emergency plans be prepared in accordance with the memorandum of understanding; P.A. 93-381 replaced department of health services with department of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 96-46 amended Subsec. (b) to add telecommunications companies to the list of utilities that must file emergency plans, to change filing requirement from biennially to every five years and to make the provision re public hearings held by the department discretionary rather than mandatory; P.A. 97-92 amended Subsec. (b) to add an exception from filing requirement for a public service company or municipal utility that submits a water supply plan pursuant to Sec. 25-32d; P.A. 04-219 amended Subsec. (b) to substitute Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security for Office of Emergency Management, effective January 1, 2005.