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Section 7-101. - Town seal. - Each town shall provide itself with a seal with the...
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. - (a) Each municipality shall protect and save harmless any municipal...
Section 7-102. - Signposts. - One or more signposts may be erected and maintained in...
Section 7-103. - Resignation of municipal officers. - Unless otherwise provided by law, any elected or appointed town,...
Section 7-104. - Refusal of elected official to accept or perform duties. - Section 7-104 is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (1949 Rev.,...
Section 7-105. - Oath of assessors, board of assessment appeals and tax collectors. - Each person appointed an assessor or elected or appointed a...
Section 7-105a. - Office of grand juror abolished. - The office of grand juror is abolished. This section shall...
Section 7-106. - Oath of grand jurors. - Section 7-106 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 524; 1953, S....
Section 7-107. - Vacancy appointments by selectmen. - Except as otherwise provided by law, if any vacancy occurs...
Section 7-108. - City or borough liable for damage done by mobs. - Each city and borough shall be liable for all injuries...
Section 7-109. - Destruction of documents. - Any official, board or commissioner of a municipality may, with...
Section 7-110. - Official publications of towns, cities and boroughs to be filed in State Library. Intangible publications. - (a) Official publications of the towns, cities and boroughs of...
Section 7-111. - Proof of claims against municipality. - Section 7-111 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 697; P.A. 82-327,...
Section 7-112. - Rate of wages and citizens' preference in work on public buildings. - The provisions of sections 31-52, 31-53 and 31-54 shall apply...
Section 7-113. - Marking of bounds of towns, cities and boroughs. - Each town, city and borough shall procure its bounds to...
Section 7-114. - Renewal of boundary lines. - Section 7-114 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 628; 1955, S....
Section 7-115. - Establishment of disputed boundaries. - When the selectmen of adjoining towns, or of a town...
Section 7-116 to 7-118. - Street and curb lines. Sidewalks. Construction, maintenance and use of sidewalks. - Sections 7-116 to 7-118, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S....
Section 7-118a. - Curbs and sidewalks to be designed with cuts at pedestrian crosswalks. - (a) All curbs and sidewalks constructed or replaced on or...
Section 7-119 and 7-120. - Hearing; appeal. Assignment of street numbers. - Sections 7-119 and 7-120 are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 633;...
Section 7-121. - Making of specific appropriations. - Each city, by its common council when so authorized by...
Section 7-121a. - Municipal loans to nonpublic schools for construction or renovation. - (a) Any municipality may, by vote of its legislative body,...
Section 7-121b. - Contracts with regional water authorities. - Any municipality served by a regional water authority may enter...
Section 7-121c. - Municipal guarantee of notes and bonds issued by water authority re water distribution system. - (a) Whenever any water authority incurs an indebtedness whether by...
Section 7-121d. - Municipality may request state review of contract with engineering consultant re wastewater. - Upon the request of a municipality or municipal agency, the...
Section 7-121e. - Sewage treatment facility improvement trust fund. - Any town, city or borough, and any district in which...
Section 7-121f. - Municipal Electric Consumer Advocate. - (a) There is established a Municipal Electric Consumer Advocate to...
Section 7-121m. - Notice of actions concerning real property in other municipalities. - Whenever any municipality, pursuant to the general statutes or any...
Section 7-121n. - Sustainable energy program. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Energy improvements” means...
Section 7-122. - Sites for armories. Appropriations. - Any city may, acting by its legislative body, purchase or...
Section 7-122a. - Municipal fallout shelters and civil preparedness facilities. - Any town or city, acting by its legislative body, may...
Section 7-122b. - Allocation of funds for art work in construction or remodeling of municipal buildings. - (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have...
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. - Sections 7-123 to 7-125, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S....
Section 7-125a. - Appropriations to improvement associations for road maintenance. - Any town which has appropriated funds to any body politic...
Section 7-125b to 7-125d. - Appropriations for assistance to nonprofit museums. Cultural commissions. Appropriations for drug abuse and dependency programs. - Sections 7-125b to 7-125d, inclusive, are repealed. (1967, P.A. 105;...
Section 7-126. - Transportation of children with physical disabilities and children with visual impairments. - Each city, town, borough or school district is authorized to...
Section 7-127 and 7-127a. - Municipal advisory welfare boards. Committees on needs of the aging. - Sections 7-127 and 7-127a are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 641;...
Section 7-127b. - Municipal agents for elderly persons. Duties. Responsibilities of Department of Aging and Disability Services. - (a) The chief elected official or the chief executive officer...
Section 7-127c. - Municipal agents for children. - (a) The chief elected official or the chief executive officer...
Section 7-127d. - Neighborhood youth center grant program. - (a) There is established a 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. - (a) The Department of Education shall solicit competitive proposals under...
Section 7-127f. - Annual reports. Audit. - Grantees shall submit to the Department of Education on an...
Section 7-127g. - Annual reports to the General Assembly. - Each municipality which receives a grant pursuant to sections 7-127d...
Section 7-127h. - Multipurpose senior centers. Establishment by municipalities. Services, programs provided. - (a) Any one or more municipalities, or any one or...
Section 7-127i. - Assistance, resources for senior centers. Duties of Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity and Opportunity. - Within available appropriations, the Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity...
Section 7-128 and 7-129. - Public squares and parks. Gifts for parks. - Sections 7-128 and 7-129 are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 644,...
Section 7-129a. - Park and recreation capital and nonrecurring expense fund. - (a) As used in this section, “municipality” means any city,...
Section 7-130. - Playgrounds and recreation centers. - Section 7-130 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 646; P.A. 82-327,...
Section 7-130a. - Public recreational facilities authorities. Definitions. - As used in sections 7-130a to 7-130w, inclusive, the following...
Section 7-130b. - Creation of authority. Joining and withdrawal. - (a) The legislative body of any municipality may, by ordinance,...
Section 7-130c. - Commission to exercise powers of authority. Transfer of authority to municipal department and vice versa. - (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section,...
Section 7-130d. - Powers of authority. - Each authority shall be deemed to be an instrumentality exercising...
Section 7-130e. - Municipalities may grant property and money to authority. - Each participating municipality may (a) transfer jurisdiction over, lease, lend,...
Section 7-130f. - Operation of projects. - The authority may acquire or construct and maintain and operate...
Section 7-130g. - Bond issues. - (a) The authority may issue bonds from time to time...
Section 7-130h. - Securing of bonds. - In the discretion of the authority any bonds issued under...
Section 7-130i. - Rates, rents, fees and charges. - The authority is authorized to fix, revise, charge and collect...
Section 7-130j. - Use of receipts. - All moneys received pursuant to the authority of sections 7-130a...
Section 7-130k. - Enforcement of rights of bondholders and trustees. - Any holder of bonds, notes, certificates or other evidences of...
Section 7-130l. - Tax exemption. - The exercise of the powers granted by sections 7-130a to...
Section 7-130m. - Bonds to be legal investments. - Bonds issued by the authority under the provisions of sections...
Section 7-130n. - Liberal construction. Consent of other bodies not required. - Section 7-130n is repealed. (February, 1965, P.A. 460, S. 15;...
Section 7-130o. - Municipal powers to aid authority. - For the purpose of aiding an authority and cooperating in...
Section 7-130p. - Provision of property to authority. - Any municipality, by ordinance, and any other governmental unit is...
Section 7-130q. - Lease of facilities. - Any municipality, governmental unit or person is empowered to enter...
Section 7-130r. - Financial aid by municipality. - For the purpose of aiding an authority and cooperating in...
Section 7-130s. - Municipal guarantee of authority bonds. - For the purpose of aiding an authority in the planning,...
Section 7-130t. - Pledge or assignment of lease to secure bonds. - Any lease or other agreement, and any instruments making or...
Section 7-130u. - Exemption of property from levy and sale by virtue of execution. - All property of an authority shall be exempt from levy...
Section 7-130v. - Payment by authority of sums in lieu of taxes. - Every authority and every municipality in which any property of...
Section 7-130w. - Construction of statutes. Consent of other agencies not required. - Sections 7-130a to 7-130w, inclusive, shall constitute full and complete...
Section 7-131. - Municipal forests. Public shade trees. - (a) The legislative body of any town, city or borough...
Section 7-131a. - Conservation commissions. - (a) Any town, city or borough, by vote of its...
Section 7-131b. - Acquisition of open space land and easements. Revaluation of property subject to easement. - (a) Any municipality may, by vote of its legislative body,...
Section 7-131c. - Open space land. Definitions. - Section 7-131c is repealed, effective July 1, 1998. (1963, P.A....
Section 7-131d. - Protected open space and watershed land acquisition grant program: Purposes; criteria; conditions. Charter Oak open space grant program: Criteria; conditions. - (a) There is established the protected open space and watershed...
Section 7-131e. - Decisions of commissioner re grants. Administrative expenses. Review board. Report. Account. - (a) Grant award decisions under the protected open space and...
Section 7-131f. - Considerations for approving grants from funds authorized prior to July 1, 1998. - In making grants-in-aid for open space land acquisition or development...
Section 7-131g. - Grant: Amount, purposes, valuation of land. Issuance of bonds. - (a) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may make...
Section 7-131h. - Charges by municipality. - Reasonable charges may be made by a municipality, when necessary,...
Section 7-131i. - Municipal use of open space land. - Land acquired or developed by any municipality, for which a...
Section 7-131j. - Taking of land by state or public service company. - If the state or any public service company, as defined...
Section 7-131k. - Acceptance of federal funds. - Any municipality may accept federal funds for open space land...
Section 7-131l. - Development of watershed areas for recreation and fish and wildlife sites. - Any town, city or borough may enter into agreements with...
Section 7-131m. - Combined conservation and recreational commission. - (a) Unless otherwise provided by special act, any town may...
Section 7-131n. - Taking of land previously intended for use as park or for other recreational or open space purposes. - If any municipality takes any land, for highway or other...
Section 7-131o. - Taking of active agricultural land by eminent domain. Purchase of agricultural conservation easement or development rights. Notice to Commissioner of Agriculture. - A municipality, town, city, borough or district, as defined in...
Section 7-131p. - Establishment of municipal land acquisition and development authority. - Any municipality may, by vote of its legislative body, establish...
Section 7-131q. - Agricultural land preservation fund. - (a) As used in this section, “municipality” means any city,...
Section 7-131r. - Land acquisition fund. - Any municipality, by vote of its legislative body, may establish...
Section 7-131s. - Charter Oak open space trust account. - (a) There is established a Charter Oak open space trust...
Section 7-131t. - Charter Oak open space grant program: Purposes; criteria. Charter Oak open space grant program account. - (a)(1) There is established a Charter Oak open space grant...
Section 7-131u. - Charter Oak state parks and forests program: Purposes; criteria. Charter Oak state parks and forests account. - (a) There is established a Charter Oak state parks and...
Section 7-131v. - Local and regional agricultural councils. - (a) Any municipality may, by vote of its legislative body...
Section 7-131w. - Municipal sale of certain real property; appraisal required. - For the purposes of this section, “municipality” means any town,...
Section 7-132 and 7-133. - Bounty: On bobcat or lynx; on snakes and wild animals. - Sections 7-132 and 7-133 are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 648,...
Section 7-134. - Lockup. - The selectmen of any town and the warden and burgesses...
Section 7-135. - Use of municipal lockup and community correctional center in another town. - As used in this section and section 7-135a, “lockup” means...
Section 7-135a. - Reimbursement of towns for keeping prisoners. - The town operating any lockup wherein prisoners are detained for...
Section 7-135b. - Payment for intoxication tests. - Section 7-135b is repealed. (1961, P.A. 566, S. 4; 1967,...
Section 7-136. - Municipal economic development commissions. - (a) Any town, city or borough, by ordinance, may accept...
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... - Sections 7-136a to 7-136c, inclusive, are repealed, effective July 1,...
Section 7-136d. - Ordinance authorizing establishment of foreign trade zone. - The legislative body of any municipality, may, by ordinance, authorize...
Section 7-136e. - Review by regional council of governments and certain state departments of application to operate foreign trade zone. - (a) A municipality which, pursuant to section 7-136d, has authorized...
Section 7-136f. - Submission of application to operate foreign trade zone. - Upon compliance with the provisions of sections 7-136d and 7-136e...
Section 7-136g. - Applicability of local planning and zoning regulations. - Nothing in sections 7-136d to 7-136g, inclusive, shall be construed...
Section 7-136h. - Preliminary review of municipal petitions, applications or requests by Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection. - Notwithstanding any provision of title 22a, when a municipality submits...
Section 7-136i. - Preliminary review of municipal petitions, applications or requests by Commissioner of Transportation or Office of the State Traffic Administration. - Notwithstanding any provision of title 13b or 14, in all...
Section 7-136j. - Preliminary review of municipal petitions, applications or requests by Commissioner of Public Health. - Notwithstanding any provision of title 19a, in all matters in...
Section 7-136n. - Joint issuance of bonds by two or more municipalities. - (a) Two or more municipalities may jointly issue bonds from...
Section 7-136o. - Securing of bonds. - In the discretion of the municipalities any bonds issued under...
Section 7-136p. - Enforcement of rights of bondholders and trustees. - Any holder of bonds, notes, certificates or other evidences of...
Section 7-136q. - Tax exemption. - The exercise of the powers granted by sections 7-136n to...
Section 7-136r. - Bonds to be legal investments. - Bonds issued by the municipalities under the provisions of sections...
Section 7-136s. - Guarantee of joint bonds by participating municipality. - For the purpose of aiding the planning, undertaking, acquisition, construction...
Section 7-137. - Regional economic development commissions. - Any two or more towns, cities or boroughs having economic...
Section 7-137a. - Powers and duties of development and industrial commissions created prior to October 1, 1965. - Any municipal or regional development and industrial commission established under...
Section 7-137b. - Establishment of industrial park. - Section 7-137b is repealed; provided, that in any case where...
Section 7-137c. - Extension of water mains into areas used wholly or partly for industrial or commercial purposes or into residential areas. - Any municipality may appropriate funds to extend or cause to...
Section 7-137d. - Lien for benefits assessed for water main extension. - Whenever assessments of benefits for any extension of water mains...
Section 7-138. - Assessment of railroad property for public improvements. Maintenance of sidewalks and public places. - All real estate, except railroad rights-of-way, belonging to any railroad...
Section 7-139. - Notice of assessment of benefits. - In any case in which an assessment of benefits has...
Section 7-140. - Assessment a lien; foreclosure. - Whenever assessments of benefits for any public work or improvement...
Section 7-141. - Notice of hearing on municipal assessments. - In any case of appraisal of benefits or assessment of...
Section 7-142. - Appeal from municipal assessments. - Any person aggrieved by the appraisal of damages in laying...
Section 7-143. - Completion of improvement pending appeal from appraisal of damages. - In the case of an appeal to the Appellate Court...
Section 7-144. - Assessment on estate of decedent. - When any assessment of damages or benefits, or both, for...
Section 7-145. - Correction of assessments. - In any case of assessment of damages or benefits for...
Section 7-146. - Clearing of waterways. Assessment of cost. Appeal. - (a) The legislative body of any town, city or borough...
Section 7-147. - Regulation of obstructions in waterways. - (a) Any town, city or borough may, within its jurisdiction,...