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| 3 | 3 | LCO No. 2175 1 of 2 | |
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| 5 | 5 | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5936 | |
| 6 | 6 | January Session, 2021 | |
| 7 | 7 | LCO No. 2175 | |
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| 10 | 10 | Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY | |
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| 12 | 12 | ||
| 13 | 13 | Introduced by: | |
| 14 | 14 | REP. DEVLIN, 134th Dist. | |
| 15 | 15 | REP. TURCO, 27th Dist. | |
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| 20 | 20 | AN ACT CONCERNING DAMAGES INCURRED BY A PROPERTY | |
| 21 | 21 | OWNER DUE TO FALLING TREES OR TREE LIMBS FROM | |
| 22 | 22 | NEIGHBORING PROPERTY THAT IS OWNED BY THE STATE. | |
| 23 | 23 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General | |
| 24 | 24 | Assembly convened: | |
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| 26 | 26 | That the general statutes be amended to: (1) Create a statutory 1 | |
| 27 | 27 | assumption of liability by the state in the case of a state-owned tree 2 | |
| 28 | 28 | falling in whole or in part onto private property with such liability being 3 | |
| 29 | 29 | limited to the actual costs of removal by a licensed arborist; (2) create an 4 | |
| 30 | 30 | exception in section 4-142 of the general statutes to the jurisdiction of 5 | |
| 31 | 31 | the Office of the Claims Commissioner for requests from licensed 6 | |
| 32 | 32 | arborists for reimbursement for the actual costs of removing a tree 7 | |
| 33 | 33 | located on state property that has fallen in whole or in part on private 8 | |
| 34 | 34 | property; (3) allow licensed arborists performing such tree removal 9 | |
| 35 | 35 | work to directly submit a claim for reimbursement to the state 10 | |
| 36 | 36 | Department of Transportation; and (4) require the state Department of 11 | |
| 37 | 37 | Transportation to revise its Vegetation Management Guidelines to 12 | |
| 38 | 38 | reflect the updated state policy that the state bears responsibility for the 13 | |
| 39 | 39 | costs associated with the removal of fallen state-owned trees. 14 Proposed Bill No. 5936 | |
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| 41 | 41 | ||
| 42 | 42 | LCO No. 2175 2 of 2 | |
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| 44 | 44 | Statement of Purpose: | |
| 45 | 45 | To ensure the state assumes liability for damages caused by state-owned | |
| 46 | 46 | trees that have fallen on private property and to eliminate the out-of- | |
| 47 | 47 | pocket removal costs by owners of private property to remove such | |
| 48 | 48 | state-owned trees. |