Connecticut § 2-32 - Effective date of public and special acts.
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§ 2-32. Effective date of public and special acts.
Sec. 2-32. Effective date of public and special acts. All public acts, except when otherwise therein specified, shall take effect on the first day of October following the session of the General Assembly at which they are passed, and special acts, unless otherwise therein provided, from the date of their approval.
(1949 Rev., S. 8891.)
Former statute cited. 108 C. 77; 131 C. 714. Cited. 143 C. 152; 144 C. 27; 147 C. 358; 180 C. 545; 184 C. 51; 196 C. 53; 199 C. 496; 233 C. 243; 240 C. 658.
Cited. 3 CA 201.
Cited. 18 CS 162. Provision that special act shall take effect upon approval at annual town meeting in 1935, held to be directory only and not mandatory where act was approved a year later. 19 CS 250. Unless there is a plain indication of an intent that a general statute will supersede a special act, the special act will continue in effect. 26 CS 262. Cited. 44 CS 207.
Cited. 4 Conn. Cir. Ct. 471; 6 Conn. Cir. Ct. 462.
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