[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town of East Haddam 8-10-1988. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
[Amended 3-28-2018]
The Town of East Haddam hereby creates a Water Pollution Control
Authority. Such authority shall have all the powers, purposes, objectives,
duties and obligations set forth in Chapters 102 and 103 of the General
Statutes of the State of Connecticut, Revision of 1958, and existing
and future amendments thereto, and all powers inuring or granted to
Water Pollution Control Authorities by § 7-246 and by other
relevant sections of the General Statutes of Connecticut, Revision
of 1958, and existing and future amendments thereto. Such authority
shall have the power to develop and enforce activities to protect
the groundwater and aquifers of the Town of East Haddam. Said regulations
promulgated by the authority would need approval by the legislative
body of the Town.
[Amended 4-27-1994]
Said Authority shall consist of six regular members and two
alternates, all electors of the Town of East Haddam, who shall be
designated and approved by the Board of Selectmen and serve without
compensation. Members and alternates appointed shall serve for a term
of five years; terms shall expire June 30. However, the first term
of each new seat hereby created will expire on June 30, 1998.
The Authority shall elect a Chairman from among its own members
at the first meeting and annually thereafter at the first meeting
held after the first day of July in each year. The Authority shall
appoint a Secretary. The Secretary shall keep a complete record of
the proceedings of the Authority and, when ordered by the Authority,
shall file the same with the Town Clerk. All such records shall be
open for public inspection at reasonable hours. Meetings of the Authority
may be called by the Chairman or any three members upon 24 hours'
notice thereof.
The Authority shall prepare annually a budget of estimated revenue
and expenditures for the ensuring fiscal year.
A commissioner may be removed for inefficiency or neglect of
duty or misconduct in office by the Board of Selectmen after a hearing
conforming to recognized standards of due process of law; a commissioner
shall be removed only after opportunity to be heard in person or by
counsel before the Board of Selectmen at least 10 days prior to which
he shall have been given a copy of the charges against him. In the
event of the removal of any commissioner, a record of the proceeding,
together with the charges and findings thereon, shall be filed in
the office of the Town Clerk of East Haddam.
