Section 23-15b - State park special event rentals paid into Passport to the Parks account. Subaccounts. Uses. Report(a) All funds collected from rent paid by any person for the use of state park property for any special event of limited duration, including, but not limited to, weddings and receptions, shall be deposited into the Passport to the Parks account, established pursuant to section 23-15h, unless the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection enters into a written agreement, signs an instrument or issues a license which specifically states otherwise.(b) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, any funds received by the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall be deposited in the Passport to the Parks account established pursuant to section 23-15h. Within said account there shall be a subaccount for each state park from which funds are collected pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, which subaccounts shall be held separate and apart from each other. Each subaccount shall be available to the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection for maintaining, making improvements to, erecting structures on or repairing the property, including houses and other buildings, of the state park for which such subaccount was established. Nothing in this section shall prevent the commissioner from obtaining or using funds from sources other than the Passport to the Parks account for the purposes described in this subsection. Funds in the Passport to the Parks account shall be used to supplement state funds appropriated for the general operation of state parks and shall not replace such appropriated funds for purposes of such general operation.(c) On or before July 1, 2023, and quarterly thereafter, the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall report to the Office of Fiscal Analysis and the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to the environment and appropriations and the budgets of state agencies on the state parks for which funds have been collected pursuant to subsection (a) of this section. Such report shall include (1) the amount of funds received into the Passport to the Parks account, itemized by subaccount, (2) the amount of funds the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection has expended from the account for each park, (3) the projects for which such funds have been expended, (4) projected end-of-fiscal year balances for the account and each subaccount, and (5) position counts funded through the account, whether filled or unfilled or permanent or seasonal in nature. Said commissioner shall post the same information on the department's Internet web site.Conn. Gen. Stat. § 23-15b
( P.A. 10-3 , S. 19 ; P.A. 11-59 , S. 10 ; 11-80 , S. 1 ; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 , S. 330 .)
Amended by P.A. 23-0204, S. 128 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2023 Regular Session, eff. 6/12/2023.Amended by P.A. 17-0002, S. 330 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2017 Special Session, eff. 1/1/2018.Amended by P.A. 11-0059, S. 10 of the the 2011 Regular Session, eff. 7/1/2011.Added by P.A. 10-0003, S. 19 of the February 2010 Regular Session, eff. 4/14/2010.