(a) The clerk of each municipality shall, at the end of each fiscal year of such municipality, give an accounting of all fees and compensation provided by the general statutes to be paid to the clerk to the legislative body of such municipality. The record of such accounting shall be a public record, as defined in subdivision (5) of section 1-200.
(b) Any town may, by ordinance, provide that the town clerk shall receive a salary in lieu of all fees and other compensation provided for in the general statutes, which salary shall be fixed by the legislative body of such town. Upon the adoption of such ordinance the fees or compensation provided by the general statutes to be paid to the town clerk shall be collected by such town clerk and he shall deposit all such money collected by him in accordance with such provisions of law as govern the deposit of moneys belonging to such town.
(1971, P.A. 477; P.A. 80-368, S. 1, 2; P.A. 97-47, S. 45.)
History: P.A. 80-368 inserted Subsec. (a) re required accounting and made previous provisions Subsec. (b); P.A. 97-47 made a technical change in Subsec. (a).
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Section 7-17. - Oath of town clerks.
Section 7-18. - Neglect of duty.
Section 7-19. - Assistant town clerks. Notice to Secretary of the State of appointment, vacancy.
Section 7-20. - Acting town clerk.
Section 7-21. - Town clerk pro tempore.
Section 7-22. - Removal of town clerks.
Section 7-22a. - Certification program for town clerks.
Section 7-23. - Records and copies.
Section 7-25a. - Electronic indexing system.
Section 7-26. - Errors to be corrected.
Section 7-26a. - Indemnification of clerk with respect to claims arising out of land record errors.
Section 7-27. - Municipal records to be kept in fire-resistive vaults or safes.
Section 7-27a. - Destruction of original land records or instruments.
Section 7-27b. - Removal of Social Security number from document prior to recording on land records.
Section 7-28. - Indexing of mechanic's lien.
Section 7-29. - Release or assignment of mortgage or lien. Recording of assignment of mortgage.
Section 7-30. - Attachment of real estate.
Section 7-31. - Maps of surveys and plots, filing requirements, copies.
Section 7-32. - Index of surveys and maps.
Section 7-33. - Lists of transfers of taxable property.
Section 7-34b. - Accounting of fees required. Salary in lieu of fees.
Section 7-35. - Preservation by town clerks of statutes, special acts and Register and Manual.
Section 7-35a. - Off-site storage of original documents. Requirements.