Connecticut § 26-27d - Citizens' Advisory Board for the Connecticut Migratory Bird and Resident Game Bird Conservation Stamps program.

§ 26-27d. Citizens' Advisory Board for the Connecticut Migratory Bird and Resident Game Bird Conservation Stamps program.

Sec. 26-27d. Citizens' Advisory Board for the Connecticut Migratory Bird and Resident Game Bird Conservation Stamps program. (a) There is established a Citizens' Advisory Board for the Connecticut Migratory Bird and Resident Game Bird Conservation Stamps program. The board shall consist of seven members appointed by the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection. The members of the board shall be individuals representing organizations having a record of activity in migratory or resident game bird or habitat conservation or who have an expertise or recognized knowledge in an area pertinent and valuable to the program. The board shall elect a chairman from among its membership on or before July 1, 1992. The chairman shall be unaffiliated with any administrative agency of the state.

(b) The board shall advise the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection on the design, production and procurement of the Connecticut Migratory Bird Conservation Stamp and the Connecticut Resident Game Bird Conservation Stamp and the expenditure of funds generated from the sale of such stamps and associated art products pursuant to sections 26-27b and 26-27c.

(P.A. 92-133, S. 3, 9; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3, S. 442; P.A. 10-3, S. 70; P.A. 11-80, S. 1; P.A. 16-27, S. 5.)

History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3 amended Subsec. (b) to delete provision re expenditure of funds generated from sale of stamps; P.A. 10-3 amended Subsec. (b) by adding duty to advise commissioner on expenditure of funds generated from sale of stamps and associated art products, effective April 14, 2010; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Commissioner of Environmental Protection” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection”, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 16-27 amended Subsec. (a) to replace “Connecticut Migratory Bird Conservation Stamp program” with “Connecticut Migratory Bird and Resident Game Bird Conservation Stamps program”, add “or resident game” and delete “wetland”, and amended Subsec. (b) to add reference to Connecticut Resident Game Bird Conservation Stamp, effective July 1, 2016.