Sec. 22a-449a. Definitions. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 22a-449a. Definitions. As used in this section and sections 22a-449c to 22a-449m, inclusive, and 22a-449p:

      (1) "Petroleum" means crude oil, crude oil fractions and refined petroleum fractions, including gasoline, kerosene, heating oils and diesel fuels;

      (2) "Release" means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping or disposing of petroleum from any underground storage tank or underground storage tank system;

      (3) "Responsible party" means (A) for an application or request for payment or reimbursement received by the board before July 1, 2005, or for a determination made by the board before July 1, 2005, regarding a person's status as a responsible party or a third party with respect to a specific release or suspected release, any person who owns or operates an underground storage tank or underground storage tank system from which a release or suspected release emanates, (B) for an application or request for payment or reimbursement received by the board on or after July 1, 2005, any person who (i) at any time owns, leases, uses or has an interest in the real property on which an underground storage tank system is or was located from which there is or has been a release or suspected release, regardless of when the release or suspected release occurred, or whether such person owned, leased, used or had an interest in the real property at the time the release or suspected release occurred, or whether such person owned, operated, leased or used the underground storage tank system from which the release or suspected release occurred, (ii) at any time owns, leases, operates, uses, or has an interest in an underground storage tank system from which there is or has been a release or suspected release, regardless of when the release or suspected release occurred or whether such person owned, leased, operated, used or had an interest in the underground storage tank system at the time the release or suspected release occurred, or (iii) is affiliated with a person described in clause (i) or (ii) of this subparagraph through a direct or indirect familial relationship or any contractual, corporate or financial relationship;

      (4) "Underground storage tank" means a tank or combination of tanks, including underground pipes connected thereto, used to contain an accumulation of petroleum, whose volume is ten per cent or more beneath the surface of the ground, including the volume of underground pipes connected thereto;

      (5) "Underground storage tank system" means an underground storage tank and any associated ancillary equipment and containment system;

      (6) "Residential underground heating oil storage tank system" means (A) an underground storage tank system used in connection with residential real property composed of four residential units or fewer, or (B) a storage tank system and any associated ancillary equipment used in connection with residential real property composed of four residential units or fewer; and

      (7) "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership, association, syndicate, company, trust, corporation, limited liability company, municipality, agency or political or administrative subdivision of the state, or other legal entity of any kind.

      (P.A. 89-373, S. 1, 10; P.A. 00-201, S. 1, 8; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-3, S. 90; P.A. 08-124, S. 27.)

      History: P.A. 00-201 made technical changes and added Subdiv. (6) defining "residential underground heating oil storage tank system", effective June 1, 2000; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-3 added reference to Sec. 22a-449p, redefined "responsible party" in Subdiv. (3) and added Subdiv. (7) to define "person", effective June 30, 2005; P.A. 08-124 made technical changes in Subdiv. (3), effective June 2, 2008.