Connecticut § 25-32a “Consumer” and “water company” defined.

Connecticut Statutes

§ 25-32a — “Consumer” and “water company” defined.

Connecticut § 25-32a

Title 25Water Resources. Flood and Erosion Control

Ch. 474Pollution

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Bluebook

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 25-32a (2026).

Text

As used in sections 25-32, 25-33 and 25-34, “consumer” means any private dwelling, hotel, motel, boardinghouse, apartment, store, office building, institution, mechanical or manufacturing establishment or other place of business or industry to which water is supplied by a water company; “water company” means any individual, partnership, association, corporation, municipality or other entity, or the lessee thereof, who or which owns, maintains, operates, manages, controls or employs any pond, lake, reservoir, well, stream or distributing plant or system that supplies water to two or more consumers or to twenty-five or more persons on a regular basis provided if any individual, partnership, association, corporation, municipality or other entity or lessee owns or controls eighty per cent of t

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As used in sections 25-32, 25-33 and 25-34, “consumer” means any private dwelling, hotel, motel, boardinghouse, apartment, store, office building, institution, mechanical or manufacturing establishment or other place of business or industry to which water is supplied by a water company; “water company” means any individual, partnership, association, corporation, municipality or other entity, or the lessee thereof, who or which owns, maintains, operates, manages, controls or employs any pond, lake, reservoir, well, stream or distributing plant or system that supplies water to two or more consumers or to twenty-five or more persons on a regular basis provided if any individual, partnership, association, corporation, municipality or other entity or lessee owns or controls eighty per cent of the equity value of more than one such system or company, the number of consumers or persons supplied by all such systems so controlled shall be considered as owned by one company for the purposes of this definition. See Sec. 25-32n re exclusion of municipality with well water service to a school administration building from consideration as a water company.

Legislative History

(1967, P.A. 691, S. 3; P.A. 75-70; P.A. 95-329, S. 4, 31.) History: P.A. 75-70 added to definition of “water company” to include those supplying water to twenty-five or more persons on a regular basis; P.A. 95-329 changed “for the purpose of supplying” to “that supplies” in the definition of water company, effective July 1, 1995. Trial court properly construed term “municipality” under section to include the town, rather than limiting it to town's water division as a separate entity, thus subjecting town to department's jurisdiction. 262 C. 758.