The Town is specifically empowered to seek injunctive
relief restraining any violation or threatened violation of any provisions
of this chapter and compel the restoration of the affected wetland
or wetland buffer to its condition prior to the violation of the provisions
of this chapter.
This chapter may, from time to time, be amended
in accordance with the procedures and requirements of the general
statutes and as new information concerning soils, hydrology, flooding
or botanical species peculiar to wetlands becomes available.
Assessors and Boards of Assessors shall consider
wetland regulations in determining the fair market value of land.
Any owner of an undeveloped wetland who has dedicated an easement
or entered into a perpetual conservation restriction with the approval
authority or a nonprofit organization to permanently control some
or all regulated activities in the wetland shall be assessed consistent
with those restrictions. Such landowner shall also be exempted from
special assessment on the controlled wetland to defray the cost of
municipal improvements, such as sanitary sewers, storm sewers and
water mains.
This chapter shall take effect 10 days after
filing.