(a) In 1994, 1996, and quadrennially thereafter, the town clerk of each town shall appoint as justice of the peace a number of electors of the town who are not members of major parties, as defined in section 9-372, which shall not exceed (1) where no justices of the peace are selected under section 9-183c, one-third of the total number of justices of the peace in the town, or (2) where justices of the peace are selected under section 9-183c, one-third of the total number of justices of the peace in the town less the number of justices of the peace in the town selected under section 9-183c. Such percentage shall be rounded up to the nearest whole number of justices of the peace. Any such appointment shall be made upon written application submitted on or after August first and on or before November first, in such year. No person who has enrollment privileges in the town in a political party which selected justices of the peace under section 9-183b or under section 9-183c within the period beginning three months before said August first and ending on the date the person is to be appointed under this section, shall be eligible for such appointment. Not later than August 1, 1996, and quadrennially thereafter, the town clerk shall send a written notice to each incumbent justice of the peace appointed under this section. Such notice shall inform such justices of the peace of the procedures set forth in this section concerning the reappointment of such justices of the peace.
(b) If, on November first in such year, the number of applications for justice of the peace filed with the town clerk under subsection (a) of this section exceeds the number of justices of the peace allowed under this section, (1) each such applicant who is an incumbent justice of the peace appointed under this section shall be reappointed if there are sufficient openings and (2) the town clerk shall, on or before the fifteenth business day of November, select the remaining applicants to be appointed as justices of the peace by lot in a ceremony which shall be open to the public and held on five days' public notice. At such lottery the town clerk shall determine the order of all such remaining applications for the purpose of filling future vacancies under subsection (d) of this section. If a town clerk receives a number of applications that is less than the number of justices of the peace that he is authorized to appoint under this section in any year, he shall not appoint any additional justices of the peace.
(c) Justices of the peace appointed in 1994, shall serve a term of two years beginning on the first Monday in 1995, and justices of the peace appointed in 1996 and thereafter shall serve a term of four years beginning on the first Monday in January in the succeeding year.
(d) Any vacancy in the office of any such justice of the peace shall be filled by appointment by the town clerk of an elector qualifying under subsection (a) of this section in the order determined in the lottery held under said subsection. If no such lottery is held, the vacancy shall not be filled.
(P.A. 94-230, S. 6, 10; P.A. 96-120, S. 2, 3.)
History: P.A. 94-230 effective June 11, 1994; P.A. 96-120 amended Subsec. (a) to require town clerks to send quadrennial notices re reappointment procedures to incumbent justices of the peace and amended Subsec. (b) by adding provision requiring reappointment of incumbent justices of the peace if there are sufficient openings, effective May 24, 1996.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Section 9-164. - Regular and special municipal elections.
Section 9-164a. - Transitional terms of office.
Section 9-164b. - Deferred terms.
Section 9-164c. - Change of municipal election date.
Section 9-164d. - Notification to secretary.
Section 9-164e. - Proposed action to be submitted to municipal attorney.
Section 9-164f. - Election of registrars unaffected.
Section 9-167a. - Minority representation.
Section 9-168. - Place of holding elections.
Section 9-168b. - Designation of polling places in adjacent voting districts.
Section 9-168c. - Accessibility of polling places to physically disabled voters.
Section 9-168e. - Parking spaces at polling places for handicapped and infirm elderly persons.
Section 9-169. - Voting districts.
Section 9-169a. - Split voting districts.
Section 9-169b. - Effective date of changes in voting districts.
Section 9-169c. - At-large election of members of legislative bodies of certain towns.
Section 9-169f. - Reapportionment required for certain municipal legislative bodies.
Section 9-170. - Eligibility to vote at town elections.
Section 9-171. - Eligibility to vote at city elections.
Section 9-172. - Eligibility to vote at state elections.
Section 9-172a. - Revised registry list defined for purposes of special elections.
Section 9-172b. - Updated list and registration deadline for special election or referendum.
Section 9-173. - Plurality required for election.
Section 9-174a. - Emergency contingency plan for elections. Model plan.
Section 9-174b. - Notification re extension of hours of polling place.
Section 9-175. - Presidential and vice presidential electors. Write-in candidates and ballots.
Section 9-176. - Meeting of presidential electors.
Section 9-177. - Compensation of presidential electors.
Section 9-178. - Senator in Congress.
Section 9-179. - Representative in Congress.
Section 9-180. - Representative at large.
Section 9-181. - State officers.
Section 9-183. - Justices of the peace.
Section 9-183a. - Number of justices of the peace, exceptions.
Section 9-184. - Vacancy in office of justice of the peace when justice nominated by a major party.
Section 9-185. - Municipal officers.
Section 9-186. - Electoral status of municipal officers and justices of the peace.
Section 9-187a. - Date term to begin.
Section 9-189. - Town clerks, treasurers and tax collectors.
Section 9-189a. - Four-year terms for town clerks, registrars and treasurers.
Section 9-190. - Registrars of voters.
Section 9-190a. - Election of registrars at state elections.
Section 9-190b. - Temporary relief of registrar by Secretary of the State; procedure.
Section 9-190c. - Removal of registrar.
Section 9-191. - Election of registrars for each voting district.
Section 9-192b. - Designation of registrar, deputy or an assistant to receive instruction.
Section 9-193. - Registrar's oath.
Section 9-194. - Compensation of registrars, deputies and assistants.
Section 9-195. - Compensation of registrars and town clerks for duties as to enrollment.
Section 9-199. - Boards of assessment appeals. Alternate and additional members.
Section 9-201. - Election of five-member boards of police commissioners.
Section 9-202. - Board of finance.
Section 9-203. - Number and term of members of boards of education.
Section 9-204. - Minority representation on board of education.
Section 9-204a. - Nomination and voting for full number of board members to be elected authorized.
Section 9-204b. - Optional alternative system for towns with four-year terms for board of education.
Section 9-205. - Election of board of education when number of members revised.
Section 9-206a. - Optional number of members and terms of boards of education.
Section 9-207. - Library directors.
Section 9-208. - Election of library directors on change from annual to biennial election.
Section 9-209. - Certificate filed with secretary when planning or zoning members to be elected.
Section 9-210. - Incompatible town offices.
Section 9-211. - United States senator; vacancy.
Section 9-212. - Representative in Congress.
Section 9-213. - Secretary, Treasurer, Comptroller and Attorney General.
Section 9-214. - State representative.
Section 9-215. - Member or member-elect of the General Assembly.
Section 9-216. - Nomination by petition.
Section 9-217. - List of candidates.
Section 9-218. - Probate judge.
Section 9-219. - Justice of the peace.
Section 9-221. - Municipal office vacancy election provisions inapplicable in certain circumstances.
Section 9-223. - Notice of vacancy in municipal office.
Section 9-224. - Special election on same day as regular election.
Section 9-224a. - No election if only one candidate in special election to fill vacancy.
Section 9-224b. - Registration as write-in candidate in special election to fill vacancy.
Section 9-225. - State elections; exception for certain elections held in 2020 and 2021.
Section 9-226. - Municipal elections; exception for certain elections held in 2021.
Section 9-227. - Record of warning of municipal election.
Section 9-228. - Municipal elections.
Section 9-229b. - Regional election monitors. Contract. Memorandum of understanding.
Section 9-230. - Authority of registrars and moderators to prevent or suppress disorder.
Section 9-231. - Oath of election officials.
Section 9-232a. - Remedy for denial of voting rights.
Section 9-232b. - Penalty for false statement.
Section 9-232c. - Moderator to keep memorandum of challenge; form.
Section 9-232d. - Request for challenged ballot.
Section 9-232e. - Casting of challenged ballot, procedure.
Section 9-232f. - Preservation and counting of challenged ballots.
Section 9-232j. - Provisional ballot packets for elections for federal office.
Section 9-232k. - Secretary of the State to prescribe and provide provisional ballots.
Section 9-232l. - Applications for provisional ballots.
Section 9-232m. - Casting of provisional ballots.
Section 9-232o. - Counting of provisional ballots.
Section 9-233. - Voting tabulator tenders.
Section 9-234. - Presence of registrars. Official checkers. Checking of elector's name.
Section 9-235. - Unofficial checkers.
Section 9-235a. - Temporary absence of election officials.
Section 9-235c. - Voluntary service by election, primary or referendum officials.
Section 9-235e. - Secretary of the State allowed access to polling place.
Section 9-236a. - Spare voting tabulator or ballot box for educational use of students.