Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 97 - Municipalities: General Provisions
Section 7-123 to 7-125. - Appropriations for: Military organizations, hospitals, health care facilities and public health nursing organizations; insect and plant disease control; Memorial Day and Old Home Week.

Connecticut General Statutes

Title 7 - Municipalities

Chapter 97 - Municipalities: General Provisions

Section 7-101. - Town seal.

Section 7-101a. - Protection of municipal officers and municipal employees from damage suits. Reimbursement of defense expenses. Liability insurance. Time limit for filing notice and commencement of action.

Section 7-102. - Signposts.

Section 7-103. - Resignation of municipal officers.

Section 7-104. - Refusal of elected official to accept or perform duties.

Section 7-105. - Oath of assessors, board of assessment appeals and tax collectors.

Section 7-105a. - Office of grand juror abolished.

Section 7-106. - Oath of grand jurors.

Section 7-107. - Vacancy appointments by selectmen.

Section 7-108. - City or borough liable for damage done by mobs.

Section 7-109. - Destruction of documents.

Section 7-110. - Official publications of towns, cities and boroughs to be filed in State Library. Intangible publications.

Section 7-111. - Proof of claims against municipality.

Section 7-112. - Rate of wages and citizens' preference in work on public buildings.

Section 7-113. - Marking of bounds of towns, cities and boroughs.

Section 7-114. - Renewal of boundary lines.

Section 7-115. - Establishment of disputed boundaries.

Section 7-116 to 7-118. - Street and curb lines. Sidewalks. Construction, maintenance and use of sidewalks.

Section 7-118a. - Curbs and sidewalks to be designed with cuts at pedestrian crosswalks.

Section 7-119 and 7-120. - Hearing; appeal. Assignment of street numbers.

Section 7-121. - Making of specific appropriations.

Section 7-121a. - Municipal loans to nonpublic schools for construction or renovation.

Section 7-121b. - Contracts with regional water authorities.

Section 7-121c. - Municipal guarantee of notes and bonds issued by water authority re water distribution system.

Section 7-121d. - Municipality may request state review of contract with engineering consultant re wastewater.

Section 7-121e. - Sewage treatment facility improvement trust fund.

Section 7-121f. - Municipal Electric Consumer Advocate.

Section 7-121m. - Notice of actions concerning real property in other municipalities.

Section 7-121n. - Sustainable energy program.

Section 7-122. - Sites for armories. Appropriations.

Section 7-122a. - Municipal fallout shelters and civil preparedness facilities.

Section 7-122b. - Allocation of funds for art work in construction or remodeling of municipal buildings.

Section 7-123 to 7-125. - Appropriations for: Military organizations, hospitals, health care facilities and public health nursing organizations; insect and plant disease control; Memorial Day and Old Home Week.

Section 7-125a. - Appropriations to improvement associations for road maintenance.

Section 7-125b to 7-125d. - Appropriations for assistance to nonprofit museums. Cultural commissions. Appropriations for drug abuse and dependency programs.

Section 7-126. - Transportation of children with physical disabilities and children with visual impairments.

Section 7-127 and 7-127a. - Municipal advisory welfare boards. Committees on needs of the aging.

Section 7-127b. - Municipal agents for elderly persons. Duties. Responsibilities of Department of Aging and Disability Services.

Section 7-127c. - Municipal agents for children.

Section 7-127d. - Neighborhood youth center grant program.

Section 7-127e. - Application. Matching funds for neighborhood youth centers program and Leadership, Education, Athletics in Partnership program. Advisory committee for grant application review.

Section 7-127f. - Annual reports. Audit.

Section 7-127g. - Annual reports to the General Assembly.

Section 7-127h. - Multipurpose senior centers. Establishment by municipalities. Services, programs provided.

Section 7-127i. - Assistance, resources for senior centers. Duties of Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity and Opportunity.

Section 7-128 and 7-129. - Public squares and parks. Gifts for parks.

Section 7-129a. - Park and recreation capital and nonrecurring expense fund.

Section 7-130. - Playgrounds and recreation centers.

Section 7-130a. - Public recreational facilities authorities. Definitions.

Section 7-130b. - Creation of authority. Joining and withdrawal.

Section 7-130c. - Commission to exercise powers of authority. Transfer of authority to municipal department and vice versa.

Section 7-130d. - Powers of authority.

Section 7-130e. - Municipalities may grant property and money to authority.

Section 7-130f. - Operation of projects.

Section 7-130g. - Bond issues.

Section 7-130h. - Securing of bonds.

Section 7-130i. - Rates, rents, fees and charges.

Section 7-130j. - Use of receipts.

Section 7-130k. - Enforcement of rights of bondholders and trustees.

Section 7-130l. - Tax exemption.

Section 7-130m. - Bonds to be legal investments.

Section 7-130n. - Liberal construction. Consent of other bodies not required.

Section 7-130o. - Municipal powers to aid authority.

Section 7-130p. - Provision of property to authority.

Section 7-130q. - Lease of facilities.

Section 7-130r. - Financial aid by municipality.

Section 7-130s. - Municipal guarantee of authority bonds.

Section 7-130t. - Pledge or assignment of lease to secure bonds.

Section 7-130u. - Exemption of property from levy and sale by virtue of execution.

Section 7-130v. - Payment by authority of sums in lieu of taxes.

Section 7-130w. - Construction of statutes. Consent of other agencies not required.

Section 7-131. - Municipal forests. Public shade trees.

Section 7-131a. - Conservation commissions.

Section 7-131b. - Acquisition of open space land and easements. Revaluation of property subject to easement.

Section 7-131c. - Open space land. Definitions.

Section 7-131d. - Protected open space and watershed land acquisition grant program: Purposes; criteria; conditions. Charter Oak open space grant program: Criteria; conditions.

Section 7-131e. - Decisions of commissioner re grants. Administrative expenses. Review board. Report. Account.

Section 7-131f. - Considerations for approving grants from funds authorized prior to July 1, 1998.

Section 7-131g. - Grant: Amount, purposes, valuation of land. Issuance of bonds.

Section 7-131h. - Charges by municipality.

Section 7-131i. - Municipal use of open space land.

Section 7-131j. - Taking of land by state or public service company.

Section 7-131k. - Acceptance of federal funds.

Section 7-131l. - Development of watershed areas for recreation and fish and wildlife sites.

Section 7-131m. - Combined conservation and recreational commission.

Section 7-131n. - Taking of land previously intended for use as park or for other recreational or open space purposes.

Section 7-131o. - Taking of active agricultural land by eminent domain. Purchase of agricultural conservation easement or development rights. Notice to Commissioner of Agriculture.

Section 7-131p. - Establishment of municipal land acquisition and development authority.

Section 7-131q. - Agricultural land preservation fund.

Section 7-131r. - Land acquisition fund.

Section 7-131s. - Charter Oak open space trust account.

Section 7-131t. - Charter Oak open space grant program: Purposes; criteria. Charter Oak open space grant program account.

Section 7-131u. - Charter Oak state parks and forests program: Purposes; criteria. Charter Oak state parks and forests account.

Section 7-131v. - Local and regional agricultural councils.

Section 7-131w. - Municipal sale of certain real property; appraisal required.

Section 7-132 and 7-133. - Bounty: On bobcat or lynx; on snakes and wild animals.

Section 7-134. - Lockup.

Section 7-135. - Use of municipal lockup and community correctional center in another town.

Section 7-135a. - Reimbursement of towns for keeping prisoners.

Section 7-135b. - Payment for intoxication tests.

Section 7-136. - Municipal economic development commissions.

Section 7-136a to 7-136c. - Convention and visitors commissions established by municipalities or municipal districts. Municipalities or municipal districts having coliseum authority or convention and visitors commission to receive a portion of certai...

Section 7-136d. - Ordinance authorizing establishment of foreign trade zone.

Section 7-136e. - Review by regional council of governments and certain state departments of application to operate foreign trade zone.

Section 7-136f. - Submission of application to operate foreign trade zone.

Section 7-136g. - Applicability of local planning and zoning regulations.

Section 7-136h. - Preliminary review of municipal petitions, applications or requests by Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection.

Section 7-136i. - Preliminary review of municipal petitions, applications or requests by Commissioner of Transportation or Office of the State Traffic Administration.

Section 7-136j. - Preliminary review of municipal petitions, applications or requests by Commissioner of Public Health.

Section 7-136n. - Joint issuance of bonds by two or more municipalities.

Section 7-136o. - Securing of bonds.

Section 7-136p. - Enforcement of rights of bondholders and trustees.

Section 7-136q. - Tax exemption.

Section 7-136r. - Bonds to be legal investments.

Section 7-136s. - Guarantee of joint bonds by participating municipality.

Section 7-137. - Regional economic development commissions.

Section 7-137a. - Powers and duties of development and industrial commissions created prior to October 1, 1965.

Section 7-137b. - Establishment of industrial park.

Section 7-137c. - Extension of water mains into areas used wholly or partly for industrial or commercial purposes or into residential areas.

Section 7-137d. - Lien for benefits assessed for water main extension.

Section 7-138. - Assessment of railroad property for public improvements. Maintenance of sidewalks and public places.

Section 7-139. - Notice of assessment of benefits.

Section 7-140. - Assessment a lien; foreclosure.

Section 7-141. - Notice of hearing on municipal assessments.

Section 7-142. - Appeal from municipal assessments.

Section 7-143. - Completion of improvement pending appeal from appraisal of damages.

Section 7-144. - Assessment on estate of decedent.

Section 7-145. - Correction of assessments.

Section 7-146. - Clearing of waterways. Assessment of cost. Appeal.

Section 7-147. - Regulation of obstructions in waterways.