Connecticut Code — 07
Browse 956 sections in division 07 of the Connecticut code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 7-1. Annual and special town meetings. Holding of meetings outside town.
- § 7-2. Ordinance concerning convening of special town meetings.
- § 7-3. Warning of town and other meetings.
- § 7-4. Record of warning.
- § 7-5. Place.
- § 7-6. Eligibility to vote.
- § 7-7. Conduct of meeting of towns, societies and other municipal corporations. Vote by ballot or voting machine; when.
- § 7-8. Power of moderator.
- § 7-9. Petitions for vote. Form. Statement by circulator.
- § 7-9a. Circulation of petition for vote at town meeting.
- § 7-9b. Hours of voting at referenda.
- § 7-9c. Dates and hours of referenda.
- § 7-9d. Validation of prior referenda. Hours.
- § 7-10. Oath.
- § 7-11. Bonds.
- § 7-12. Duties of selectmen.
- § 7-12a. First selectman to be chief executive officer and ex-officio member of town boards, commissions and committees.
- § 7-12b. Record of meetings.
- § 7-13. Orders on town treasurer.
- § 7-14. Land records indexes. Examination of land records. Attestation of records and photocopies. Town records. Certification as to examination of records and indexes. General index of land records. Penalties.
- § 7-15. Detection of crime.
- § 7-16. Bond.
- § 7-16a. Notice to Secretary of the State of appointment of town clerk, vacancy in appointed office of town clerk.
- § 7-17. Oath of town clerks.
- § 7-18. Neglect of duty.
- § 7-19. Assistant town clerks. Notice to Secretary of the State of appointment, vacancy.
- § 7-20. Acting town clerk.
- § 7-21. Town clerk pro tempore.
- § 7-22. Removal of town clerks.
- § 7-22a. Certification program for town clerks.
- § 7-23. Records and copies.
- § 7-24. Recording of instruments; safekeeping of records; recording of illegible instruments; form of instruments.
- § 7-25. Index.
- § 7-25a. Electronic indexing system.
- § 7-26. Errors to be corrected.
- § 7-26a. Indemnification of clerk with respect to claims arising out of land record errors.
- § 7-27. Municipal records to be kept in fire-resistive vaults or safes.
- § 7-27a. Destruction of original land records or instruments.
- § 7-27b. Removal of Social Security number from document prior to recording on land records.
- § 7-28. Indexing of mechanic's lien.
- § 7-29. Release or assignment of mortgage or lien. Recording of assignment of mortgage.
- § 7-30. Attachment of real estate.
- § 7-31. Maps of surveys and plots, filing requirements, copies.
- § 7-32. Index of surveys and maps.
- § 7-32k. Property upon which hunting or shooting sports regularly take place. Placement of property location on list maintained by town clerk. Notice. Liability not imposed by section.
- § 7-33. Lists of transfers of taxable property.
- § 7-33a. Issuance of certificates of authority of justices of peace, notaries and Superior Court commissioners.
- § 7-34. Fees.
- § 7-34a. Fees.
- § 7-34b. Accounting of fees required. Salary in lieu of fees.
- § 7-35. Preservation by town clerks of statutes, special acts and Register and Manual.
- § 7-35a. Off-site storage of original documents. Requirements.
- § 7-36. Definitions.
- § 7-37. Town clerk, ex-officio registrar. Notice to Secretary of the State and Commissioner of Public Health of appointment of registrar, vacancy in appointed office of registrar.
- § 7-38. Assistant registrars. Notice to Secretary of the State and Commissioner of Public Health of appointment to or vacancy in office of assistant registrar.
- § 7-39. Oath of registrars.
- § 7-39a. (Formerly Sec. 45-23). Record of name of registrar of vital statistics.
- § 7-40. Seal.
- § 7-41. Regulations re record keeping. Submission of certified copies to department.
- § 7-41a. Vital statistics records available for genealogical research.
- § 7-42. Duties.
- § 7-43. Municipal ordinances.
- § 7-44. When authenticated copies of certificates to be transmitted to other towns. Use of electronic vital records system.
- § 7-45. Preparation of certificates.
- § 7-46. Completion of records.
- § 7-47. Indexes.
- § 7-47a. Definitions.
- § 7-47b. Record keeping of personal data by institutions. Release or disposal of dead body or dead fetus.
- § 7-48. Birth certificates: Filing requirements.
- § 7-48a. Filing of original certificate of birth. Surrogacy agreement: Replacement certificate of birth.
- § 7-49. Failure to file birth certificate.
- § 7-50. Restrictions on content of birth certificates. Exceptions. Filing of acknowledgments or adjudications of parentage. Removal or changing of parentage information. Access to copies restricted.
- § 7-51. Access to and examination and issuance of certified copies of birth and fetal death records or certificates restricted. Access to and disclosure of confidential information restricted. Fee waiver for certified copies of birth certificates for homeless young adults and youths.
- § 7-51a. Copies of vital records. Access to vital records by members of genealogical societies. Marriage and civil union licenses. Death certificates. Issuance of certified copies of electronically filed certificates.
- § 7-52. Certification of birth registration.
- § 7-53. Birth certificates of adopted persons born in this state.
- § 7-53a. Reports re issuance of original birth certificates to adopted persons and certain other persons and filing of contact preference and health history forms.
- § 7-54. Certification of birth registration or certificate of foreign birth for person born outside of the country and adopted by a state resident. Application and decree re change of biological age and date of birth.
- § 7-55. Certification of birth to have force and effect of original.
- § 7-56. Issuance of certified copies of birth certificates.
- § 7-57. Delayed registration of births.
- § 7-58. Record of birth of child born outside United States.
- § 7-59. Report of foundling.
- § 7-60. Fetal death certificates.
- § 7-61. Birth and fetal death certificates to state whether blood test has been made.
- § 7-62. Death certificates.
- § 7-62a. Illegal issuance of certificates.
- § 7-62b. Death certificates; filing and registration; responsibilities of funeral directors and licensed embalmers; medical certification; burial of person who died from communicable disease; “presumptive” death certificates; regulations.
- § 7-62c. Filing and registration of death certificate when death not recorded in accordance with Sec. 7-62b ; “delayed” death certificates.
- § 7-63. Notice of deaths at the Connecticut Juvenile Training School.
- § 7-64. Disposal of bodies.
- § 7-65. Removal, transit and burial permit. Subregistrars.
- § 7-65a. Multiple interment in common hospital-supplied container.
- § 7-66. Duties of sextons. Sextons' reports. Penalty.
- § 7-67. Applications for and issuance of disinterment permits.
- § 7-68. Issuance of disinterment or removal permit.
- § 7-68a. Application to Probate Court for disinterment of remains of child buried in a multiple interment within common hospital-supplied container. Hearing. Order of disinterment. Sexton and Chief Medical Examiner to determine whether remains are sufficiently identifiable. Liability of parent.
- § 7-69. Removal of body of deceased person.
- § 7-70. Temporary removal of body to another town or state. Temporary removal permit.
- § 7-71. Report of name of sexton.
- § 7-72. Sextons' reports. Fines.
- § 7-73. Fees for marriage license, burial or removal, transit and burial permit. Marriage license surcharge.
- § 7-74. Fees for certification of birth registration, certified copy of vital statistics certificate and uncertified copy of original certificate of birth. Waiver of fee for certificate of death for a veteran.
- § 7-75. Fees for records relating to inmates of institutions.
- § 7-76. Fees for records relating to residents of other towns.
- § 7-79. Bond.
- § 7-80. Duties of treasurer. Appointment of deputy.
- § 7-81. Removal of town treasurers.
- § 7-82. Assistant treasurer.
- § 7-83. Town orders to be signed by majority of the selectmen.
- § 7-84. Record and annual report of town orders.
- § 7-85. Calling in town orders for payment.
- § 7-86. Bond.
- § 7-87. Ineligibility for office.
- § 7-88. Oaths of constables.
- § 7-89. Service of process. Liability.
- § 7-90. Command of assistance.
- § 7-91. Special constables and policemen to be citizens.
- § 7-92. Special constables.
- § 7-97. Compensation of constables and other officers.
- § 7-98. Appointment, removal and salary of manager.
- § 7-99. Duties. Bond.
- § 7-99a. Appointment of departmental coordinators or deputy city or town managers and assistants.
- § 7-100. Approval or abandonment of town manager plan.
- § 7-101. Town seal.
- § 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.
- § 7-102. Signposts.
- § 7-103. Resignation of municipal officers.
- § 7-104. Refusal of elected official to accept or perform duties.
- § 7-105. Oath of assessors, board of assessment appeals and tax collectors.
- § 7-105a. Office of grand juror abolished.
- § 7-106. Oath of grand jurors.
- § 7-107. Vacancy appointments by selectmen.
- § 7-108. City or borough liable for damage done by mobs.
- § 7-109. Destruction of documents.
- § 7-110. Official publications of towns, cities and boroughs to be filed in State Library. Intangible publications.
- § 7-111. Proof of claims against municipality.
- § 7-112. Rate of wages and citizens' preference in work on public buildings.
- § 7-113. Marking of bounds of towns, cities and boroughs.
- § 7-114. Renewal of boundary lines.
- § 7-115. Establishment of disputed boundaries.
- § 7-118a. Curbs and sidewalks to be designed with cuts at pedestrian crosswalks.
- § 7-121. Making of specific appropriations.
- § 7-121a. Municipal loans to nonpublic schools for construction or renovation.
- § 7-121b. Contracts with regional water authorities.
- § 7-121c. Municipal guarantee of notes and bonds issued by water authority re water distribution system.
- § 7-121d. Municipality may request state review of contract with engineering consultant re wastewater.
- § 7-121e. Sewage treatment facility improvement trust fund.
- § 7-121f. Municipal Electric Consumer Advocate.
- § 7-121m. Notice of actions concerning real property in other municipalities.
- § 7-121n. Sustainable energy program.
- § 7-122. Sites for armories. Appropriations.
- § 7-122a. Municipal fallout shelters and civil preparedness facilities.
- § 7-122b. Allocation of funds for art work in construction or remodeling of municipal buildings.
- § 7-125a. Appropriations to improvement associations for road maintenance.
- § 7-126. Transportation of children with physical disabilities and children with visual impairments.
- § 7-127b. Municipal agents for elderly persons. Duties. Responsibilities of Department of Aging and Disability Services.
- § 7-127c. Municipal agents for children.
- § 7-127d. Neighborhood youth center grant program.
- § 7-127e. Application. Matching funds for neighborhood youth centers program and Leadership, Education, Athletics in Partnership program. Advisory committee for grant application review.
- § 7-127f. Annual reports. Audit.
- § 7-127g. Annual reports to the General Assembly.
- § 7-127h. Multipurpose senior centers. Establishment by municipalities. Services, programs provided.
- § 7-127i. Assistance, resources for senior centers. Duties of Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity and Opportunity.
- § 7-129a. Park and recreation capital and nonrecurring expense fund.
- § 7-130. Playgrounds and recreation centers.
- § 7-130a. Public recreational facilities authorities. Definitions.
- § 7-130b. Creation of authority. Joining and withdrawal.
- § 7-130c. Commission to exercise powers of authority. Transfer of authority to municipal department and vice versa.
- § 7-130d. Powers of authority.
- § 7-130e. Municipalities may grant property and money to authority.
- § 7-130f. Operation of projects.
- § 7-130g. Bond issues.
- § 7-130h. Securing of bonds.
- § 7-130i. Rates, rents, fees and charges.
- § 7-130j. Use of receipts.
- § 7-130k. Enforcement of rights of bondholders and trustees.
- § 7-130l. l . Tax exemption.
- § 7-130m. Bonds to be legal investments.
- § 7-130n. Liberal construction. Consent of other bodies not required.
- § 7-130o. Municipal powers to aid authority.
- § 7-130p. Provision of property to authority.
- § 7-130q. Lease of facilities.
- § 7-130r. Financial aid by municipality.
- § 7-130s. Municipal guarantee of authority bonds.
- § 7-130t. Pledge or assignment of lease to secure bonds.
- § 7-130u. Exemption of property from levy and sale by virtue of execution.
- § 7-130v. Payment by authority of sums in lieu of taxes.
- § 7-130w. Construction of statutes. Consent of other agencies not required.
- § 7-131. Municipal forests. Public shade trees.
- § 7-131a. Conservation commissions.
- § 7-131b. Acquisition of open space land and easements. Revaluation of property subject to easement.
- § 7-131c. Open space land. Definitions.
- § 7-131d. Protected open space and watershed land acquisition grant program: Purposes; criteria; conditions. Charter Oak open space grant program: Criteria; conditions.
- § 7-131e. Decisions of commissioner re grants. Administrative expenses. Review board. Report. Account.
- § 7-131f. Considerations for approving grants from funds authorized prior to July 1, 1998.
- § 7-131g. Grant: Amount, purposes, valuation of land. Issuance of bonds.
- § 7-131h. Charges by municipality.
- § 7-131i. Municipal use of open space land.
- § 7-131j. Taking of land by state or public service company.
- § 7-131k. Acceptance of federal funds.
- § 7-131l. l . Development of watershed areas for recreation and fish and wildlife sites.
- § 7-131m. Combined conservation and recreational commission.
- § 7-131n. Taking of land previously intended for use as park or for other recreational or open space purposes.
- § 7-131o. Taking of active agricultural land by eminent domain. Purchase of agricultural conservation easement or development rights. Notice to Commissioner of Agriculture.
- § 7-131p. Establishment of municipal land acquisition and development authority.
- § 7-131q. Agricultural land preservation fund.
- § 7-131r. Land acquisition fund.
- § 7-131s. Charter Oak open space trust account.
- § 7-131t. Charter Oak open space grant program: Purposes; criteria. Charter Oak open space grant program account.
- § 7-131u. Charter Oak state parks and forests program: Purposes; criteria. Charter Oak state parks and forests account.
- § 7-131v. Local and regional agricultural councils.
- § 7-131w. Municipal sale of certain real property; appraisal required.
- § 7-134. Lockup.
- § 7-135. Use of municipal lockup and community correctional center in another town.
- § 7-135a. Reimbursement of towns for keeping prisoners.
- § 7-135b. Payment for intoxication tests.
- § 7-136. Municipal economic development commissions.
- § 7-136d. Ordinance authorizing establishment of foreign trade zone.
- § 7-136e. Review by regional council of governments and certain state departments of application to operate foreign trade zone.
- § 7-136f. Submission of application to operate foreign trade zone.
- § 7-136g. Applicability of local planning and zoning regulations.
- § 7-136h. Preliminary review of municipal petitions, applications or requests by Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection.
- § 7-136i. Preliminary review of municipal petitions, applications or requests by Commissioner of Transportation or Office of the State Traffic Administration.
- § 7-136j. Preliminary review of municipal petitions, applications or requests by Commissioner of Public Health.
- § 7-136n. Joint issuance of bonds by two or more municipalities.
- § 7-136o. Securing of bonds.
- § 7-136p. Enforcement of rights of bondholders and trustees.
- § 7-136q. Tax exemption.
- § 7-136r. Bonds to be legal investments.
- § 7-136s. Guarantee of joint bonds by participating municipality.
- § 7-137. Regional economic development commissions.
- § 7-137a. Powers and duties of development and industrial commissions created prior to October 1, 1965.
- § 7-137b. Establishment of industrial park.
- § 7-137c. Extension of water mains into areas used wholly or partly for industrial or commercial purposes or into residential areas.
- § 7-137d. Lien for benefits assessed for water main extension.
- § 7-138. Assessment of railroad property for public improvements. Maintenance of sidewalks and public places.
- § 7-139. Notice of assessment of benefits.
- § 7-140. Assessment a lien; foreclosure.
- § 7-141. Notice of hearing on municipal assessments.
- § 7-142. Appeal from municipal assessments.
- § 7-143. Completion of improvement pending appeal from appraisal of damages.
- § 7-144. Assessment on estate of decedent.
- § 7-145. Correction of assessments.
- § 7-146. Clearing of waterways. Assessment of cost. Appeal.
- § 7-147. Regulation of obstructions in waterways.
- § 7-148. Scope of municipal powers.
- § 7-148a. Compilations of ordinances and special acts; supplements.
- § 7-148b. Creation of fair rent commission. Powers.
- § 7-148c. Considerations in determining rental charge to be excessive.
- § 7-148d. Order for limitation on amount of rent. Suspension of rent payments. Cease and desist orders for retaliatory actions.
- § 7-148e. Appeal.
- § 7-148f. Penalty for violations.
- § 7-148g. Fair housing commission; creation and powers.
- § 7-148h. Ethics commission; establishment and powers. Interest in conflict with discharge of duties.
- § 7-148i. Discriminatory practices defined. Boards authorized.
- § 7-148j. Powers of boards.
- § 7-148k. Complaints. Hearings.
- § 7-148l. l . Appeals.
- § 7-148m. Actions of State Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities to supersede local action.
- § 7-148n. Local boards may assume powers to investigate discriminatory practices.
- § 7-148o. Wilful violation of ordinances concerning prevention and remediation of blight. Penalties.
- § 7-148p. Establishment of land bank authority authorized.
- § 7-148q. Establishment of corporation to manufacture, distribute, purchase or sell compressed natural gas.
- § 7-148r. Municipal fee for access to computer-assisted mass appraisal system database.
- § 7-148s. Municipal fee for use of geographic information system.
- § 7-148t. Conflict of interest for members of land use and purchasing commissions and boards.
- § 7-148u. Municipal set-aside program for small contractors and minority business enterprises.
- § 7-148v. Requirements for competitive bidding. Purchase from person having contract to sell goods or services.
- § 7-148w. Disqualification of contractors from bidding on municipal contracts.
- § 7-148x. Electronic equipment defined.
- § 7-148aa. Lien on real estate where penalty for violation of zoning regulations or blight ordinance is unpaid.
- § 7-148bb. Agreement between municipalities to share revenue received for payment of property taxes.
- § 7-148cc. Joint performance of municipal functions.
- § 7-148dd. Municipal fiscal disparities. List. Recommendations to address problems of municipalities on list.
- § 7-148ee. Establishment of corporation to manufacture, distribute, purchase or sell electricity, gas or water.
- § 7-148ff. Special assessment on blighted property. Remediation of blighted conditions. Liens.
- § 7-148gg. Notice to lienholder of notice or order to remedy health, housing or safety code violation.
- § 7-148hh. Definitions.
- § 7-148ii. Registration and maintenance of foreclosed residential properties.
- § 7-148jj. Ordinances regulating maintenance of foreclosed properties.
- § 7-148kk. Negotiated agreement to promote regional economic development and share tax revenue from new economic development.
- § 7-148ll. ll . Determination re regional economic development agreement.
- § 7-148mm. Interlocal agreement re dispatch services. Governing board.
- § 7-148nn. Municipal partnerships re sharing of services of resident state trooper or other law enforcement personnel.
- § 7-148oo. Municipal option for temporary deferment of payment on certain delinquent property taxes and utility rates, charges and assessments.
- § 7-148pp. Municipal option for temporary lower interest rate on certain delinquent property taxes and utility rates, charges and assessments.
- § 7-148qq. Licensure of short-term rental properties.
- § 7-148rr. Municipal function. Appointment by interlocal agreement or agreement for regional services. Regulations.
- § 7-149. Regulation of waste disposal in highways.
- § 7-149a. Designation of scenic roads. Appeal. Maintenance of highway.
- § 7-149b. Regulation of commercial unmanned aircraft.
- § 7-149c. Municipal regulation of operation and use of external speakers attached to a motor vehicle. Penalties. Seizure and forfeiture.
- § 7-149d. Establishment of traffic authority.
- § 7-151a. Establishment of lake authorities. Withdrawal of town.
- § 7-151b. Appointment of lake patrolmen. Requirements for carrying a firearm or baton by lake patrolmen. Liability. Training courses.
- § 7-151c. Lake authority retention fees for boating law fines. Schedule.
- § 7-152b. Hearing procedure for parking violations.
- § 7-152c. Hearing procedure for citations.
- § 7-152d. Civil penalty for illegal disposal of solid waste at municipal landfill.