Section 16a-17 - Definitions(a) As used in this section and sections 16a-18 to 16a-20, inclusive: (1) "Creating a fuel shortage" means the diminution by contrivance or artificial means of the supply of fuel to a point below that needed to meet consumer demands adequately; and(2) "Fuel" includes coal and coal products, electricity, natural gas, petroleum products, radioactive materials, wood fuels and any other resource yielding energy.(b) As used in sections 16a-21, , 16a-22a and 16a-22k: (1) "Associated equipment" means a gas line, gas regulator, sacrificial anode, interconnecting hardware and any other equipment that is necessary to install and operate a propane tank;(2) "Automatic delivery" means the delivery of heating fuel to a consumer by a dealer under a system determined by the dealer of calculating the consumer's heating fuel needs based on the consumer's heating fuel consumption;(3) "Cash" (A) means a certified or cashier's check, commercial money order, legal tender or equivalent of such check, money order or legal tender, and (B) includes a guaranteed payment on behalf of a consumer by a government or community action agency, provided no discount is taken for the charge as billed;(4) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Consumer Protection;(5) "Consumer" means a direct purchaser of heating fuel from a heating fuel dealer for one or more dwelling units within a structure having not more than four dwelling units;(6) "Gallon" means an accepted unit of measure consisting of two hundred thirty-one cubic inches, for all liquid or gaseous heating fuel, subject to modifications allowed under regulations adopted pursuant to section 43-42;(7) "Heating fuel" means any petroleum-based fuel, including any petroleum product regulated pursuant to chapter 250, used as the primary source of residential heating or domestic hot water; (8) "Heating fuel dealer" or "dealer" means any individual or group of individuals who, or a cooperative, corporation, firm, limited liability company or partnership that, offers to sell, at retail, heating fuel to a consumer;(9) "Lessee" means a natural person who rents or leases personal property under a consumer rental or lease agreement;(10) "Lessor" means a heating fuel dealer who regularly provides the use of personal property through consumer rental or lease agreements and to whom rent is paid at a fixed interval for the use of such property;(11) "Notice of termination of automatic delivery" means a notice by a consumer to a dealer providing automatic delivery in which the consumer requests that the dealer terminate such automatic delivery; and(12) "Purchase price" or "commercially reasonable price" means a price that does not exceed the fair market value of a propane tank and associated equipment, as applicable.Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16a-17
(P.A. 74-208, S. 1, 5; P.A. 12-76 , S. 1 ; P.A. 16-69 , S. 2 .)
Amended by P.A. 22-0104, S. 38 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2022 Regular Session, eff. 5/24/2022.Amended by P.A. 16-0069, S. 2 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2016 Regular Session, eff. 7/1/2016.Amended by P.A. 12-0076, S. 1 of the the 2012 Regular Session, eff. 7/1/2013.