Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 1 - Construction of Statutes
Section 1-2b. - Construction of term “certified mail, return receipt requested”.

(a) For purposes of sections 1-100oo, 1-206, 2-71r, 4-176, 4-180, 4-183, 4a-52a, 4a-60q, 4a-63, 4a-100, 4e-34, 4e-35, 7-65, 7-148w, 7-247a, 7-473c, 7-478e, 8-3b, 8-3i, 8-7d, 8-26b, 8-169r, 8-293, 9-388, 9-608, 9-623, 10a-22c, 10a-22i, 10a-34a, 10a-109n, 12-35, 12-157, 12-242ii, 12-242jj, 13a-80, 13a-123, 15-11a, 16-41, 16-50c, 16-50d, 17a-103b, 19a-87, 19a-87c, 19a-209c, 19a-332e, 19a-343a, 19a-486a, 19a-486c, 19a-486d, 19a-497, 19a-507b, 20-205a, 20-325a, 21-63, 21-80, 22-7, 22a-6b, 22a-6u, 22a-30, 22a-42d, 22a-42f, 22a-66d, 22a-137, 22a-178, 22a-225, 22a-228, 22a-250, 22a-354p, 22a-354s, 22a-354t, 22a-361, 22a-371, 22a-401, 22a-403, 22a-433, 22a-436, 22a-449f, 22a-449l, 22a-449n, 22a-504, 22a-626, 23-46, 23-65j, 23-651, 23-65p, 25-32, 25-32e, 25-331, 25-34, 25-204, 25-234, 29-108d, 31-57c, 31-57d, 31-355, 32-613, 33-663, 33-929, 33-1053, 33-1219, 34-521, 35-42, 36a-50, 36a-51, 36a-52, 36a-53, 36a-82, 36a-184, 36a-493, 36b-62, 36b-72, 38-323a, 38a-344, 38a-676, 38a-724, 38a-788, 42-158j, 42-181, 42-182, 42-186, 42-271, 45a-716, 46b-115w, 46b-128, 47-42d, 47-74f, 47-88b, 47-236, 47-284, 47a-11b, 47a-11d, 47a-13a, 47a-14h, 47a-56b, 49-2, 49-4a, 49-8, 49-8a, 49-10b, 49-31b, 49-51, 49-70, 51-90e, 52-57, 52-59b, 52-63, 52-64, 52-195c, 52-350e, 52-351b, 52-361a, 52-362, 52-565a, 52-605, 52-606, 53-401, 53a-128, 53a-128d, 53a-207 and 54-82c and chapter 965, any reference to certified mail, return receipt requested, shall include mail, electronic, and digital methods of receiving the return receipt, including all methods of receiving the return receipt identified by the Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service in Chapter 500 of the Domestic Mail Manual or any subsequent corresponding document of the United States Postal Service.

(b) The Legislative Commissioners' Office shall, in codifying the provisions of this section, make such technical, grammatical and punctuation changes and statutory placements and classifications, including, but not limited to, the addition of newly enacted material to the sections listed in subsection (a) of this section as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.
(P.A. 10-179, S. 40; P.A. 11-137, S. 2; 11-237, S. 1; P.A. 13-277, S. 21; P.A. 14-94, S. 10; P.A. 15-14, S. 1; P.A. 22-70, S. 16.)
History: P.A. 10-179 effective May 7, 2010; P.A. 11-137 amended Subsec. (a) by adding references to Secs. 4-176 and 4-180, effective July 8, 2011; P.A. 11-237 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting reference to Sec. 46a-82e; P.A. 13-277 amended Subsec. (a) to delete reference to Sec. 13a-85c, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 14-94 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting reference to Sec. 22a-285b, effective June 6, 2014; P.A. 15-14 made a technical change in Subsec. (b); P.A. 22-70 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting reference to Sec. 42-161, effective July 1, 2022.

Structure Connecticut General Statutes

Connecticut General Statutes

Title 1 - Provisions of General Application

Chapter 1 - Construction of Statutes

Section 1-1. - Words and phrases. Construction of statutes.

Section 1-1a. - Terms relating to security in personal property.

Section 1-1b. - Payment by bank treasurer's or cashier's check in lieu of certified check.

Section 1-1c. - “Elector” defined. “Special election warned and held or called for that purpose”, means “referendum”, when.

Section 1-1d. - “Minor”, “infant”, “infancy”, “age of majority”, defined.

Section 1-1e. - Savings clause.

Section 1-1f. - “Blind”, “physically disabled”, defined.

Section 1-1g. - “Intellectual disability” defined.

Section 1-1h. - Identity cards.

Section 1-1i. - Use of fees collected from issuance of identity cards.

Section 1-1j. - *(See end of section for amended version and effective date.) Methods of payment for licenses, fees, costs or fines.

Section 1-1k. - “Victim of crime”, “crime victim”, defined.

Section 1-1l. - Holocaust victims' settlement payments excluded from income for purposes of needs-based programs.

Section 1-1m. - Applicability of marriage terms.

Section 1-1n. - “Gender identity or expression” defined.

Section 1-1t. - Method of payment of fees and delivery of correspondence or communications to agency or quasi-public agency. Advertisement of legal notices.

Section 1-2. - Legal notices.

Section 1-2a. - Construction of term “postmark”.

Section 1-2b. - Construction of term “certified mail, return receipt requested”.

Section 1-2c. - Construction of term “electronic mail”.

Section 1-2z. - Plain meaning rule.

Section 1-3. - Validity of separate provisions of acts.

Section 1-3a. - License or permit fee due on Saturday, Sunday or holiday.

Section 1-3b. - Enforcement of subpoena powers.