{"data":{"id":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-16a-17","jurisdiction":"us-ct","citation":"Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16a-17","heading":"Definitions.","body":"(a) As used in this section and sections 16a-18 to 16a-20, inclusive:\n(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\n(2) “Fuel” includes coal and coal products, electricity, natural gas, petroleum products, radioactive materials, wood fuels and any other resource yielding energy.\n(b) As used in sections 16a-21, 16a-22a and 16a-22k:\n(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;\n(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;\n(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;\n(4) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Consumer Protection;\n(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;\n(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;\n(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;\n(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;\n(9) “Lessee” means a natural person who rents or leases personal property under a consumer rental or lease agreement;\n(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;\n(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\n(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.","path":["TITLE 16a. PLANNING AND ENERGY POLICY","CHAPTER 296. OPERATION OF FUEL SUPPLY BUSINESS"],"source_url":"https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_296.htm#sec_16a-17","current_through":"Revised to January 1, 2026 (2026 Supplement to the General Statutes of Connecticut, applied over the base revision of January 1, 2025)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T19:07:02Z","sha256":"beeed2c5a5475038bd26f81e03ad3b7948affe25624ed67ee4018e2d97bb4481","source_id":"us-ct","stale":false,"prev":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-16a-14g","next":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-16a-18"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}