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CT Gen Stat § 7-302 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-302 - Hearing prior to dismissal of fire department head. Appeal.

 No active head of any fire department of any town, city or borough shall be dismissed unless he has been given notice in writing of the specific grounds for such dismissal and an opportunity to be heard in his own defense, personally or by counsel, at a public hearing before the authority having the power of dismissal. Such public hearing, unless otherwise specified by charter, shall be held not less than five nor more than ten days after such notice. Any person so dismissed may appeal within thirty days following such dismissal to the superior court for the judicial district in which such town, city or borough is located. Service shall be made as in civil process. Said court shall review the record of such hearing, and, if it appears upon the hearing upon the appeal that testimony is necessary for an equitable disposition of the appeal, it may take evidence or appoint a referee or a committee to take such evidence as it directs and report the same to the court with his or its findings of fact, which report shall constitute a part of the proceedings upon which the determination of the court shall be made. The court, upon such appeal, and after a hearing thereon, may affirm the action of such authority, or may set the same aside if it finds that such authority acted illegally or arbitrarily, or in the abuse of its discretion, or with bad faith or malice.(1949, 1951, 1955, S. 425d; P.A. 76-436, S. 289, 681; P.A. 78-280, S. 1, 127.)History: P.A. 76-436 substituted superior court for court of common pleas and added judicial district reference, effective July 1, 1978; P.A. 78-280 deleted reference to counties.Cited. 209 C. 352.
CT Gen Stat § 7-303 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-303 - “Municipality”, “work” and “duty” defined.

 The following words as used in sections 7-303 to 7-306, inclusive, shall have the following meanings: “Municipality” includes each town, consolidated town and city, consolidated town and borough, school district, fire, sewer and other district, improvement association or any other political subdivision of the state upon which is placed, or which has assumed, the duty of extinguishing fires and protecting its inhabitants from loss by fire. “Work” or “duty” includes the time spent and duties performed while at fires, answering alarms, returning from fires, attending fire drills or classes, conducting tests or trials of any of the apparatus or equipment normally used by a fire department, instructing or being instructed in fire duties, and any other duty which is ordered to be performed by a superior or commanding officer in the fire department.(1949, S. 426d.)Legislature may enact laws relative to hours of service of firemen without infringing on municipality's right of home rule or local self-government. 149 C. 528.
CT Gen Stat § 7-304 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-304 - Participation of municipalities.

 (a) Any municipality may by ordinance adopt an average work week of fifty-six hours for permanent paid fire personnel as provided in sections 7-303 to 7-306, inclusive.(b) The legislative body of such municipality may, by ordinance, or shall, upon petition of electors of such municipality in number not less than five per cent of the total number of electors on the last-completed registry list, submit the question of adopting the provisions of said sections in the fire department of such municipality to a vote of the electors thereof at the next general election or at a special election or meeting called for such purpose. Any such petition shall contain the ordinance to be voted upon by the electors. Such election or meeting shall be called and held, and the vote on the question canvassed and the result determined and certified, as nearly as may be in accordance with the provisions of the laws governing the election of civil officers therein. The notice or warning for such election or meeting shall state that a purpose of such election or meeting is to ascertain whether or not such municipality shall adopt an average work week of fifty-six hours for permanent paid fire personnel and that such election or meeting is called under the provisions of this section. The vote on such question shall be taken by a “YES” and “NO” vote on the voting tabulator, and the voting tabulator ballot, which shall bear the words “Shall a fifty-six hour work week for permanent paid fire personnel be adopted?”, shall be provided in accordance with the provisions of section 9-250. If, upon the official determination of the result of such vote, it appears that a majority of those voting on the question are in favor of the adoption of the provisions of sections 7-303 to 7-306, inclusive, said sections shall take effect as to such municipality no later than ninety days thereafter, provided, when the fiscal year of any such municipality begins within ninety days thereafter, the effective date for such municipality shall be no later than the first day of the fiscal year next following the expiration of the ninety-day period.(1949, S. 427d; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 49; February, 1965, P.A. 574, S. 4; P.A. 86-170, S. 6, 13; P.A. 11-20, S. 1.)History: 1965 act deleted obsolete reference to Sec. 7-307, substituting Sec. 7-306; P.A. 86-170 required that designation on ballot label be in form of question and substituted term “fire personnel” for “firemen”; pursuant to P.A. 11-20, “machine” and “ballot label” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “tabulator” and “ballot”, respectively, in Subsec. (b), effective May 24, 2011.Does not permit adoption of average work week of fewer than 56 hours. 149 C. 528.
CT Gen Stat § 7-305 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-305 - Work week.

 The work week for all permanent paid members of the uniformed firefighter force for municipalities adopting sections 7-303 to 7-306, inclusive, shall be an average work week of not more than fifty-six hours, computed over a period of one fiscal or calendar year, as the municipality elects; provided, unless otherwise prescribed by regulation or ordinance, any time spent in an emergency in excess of any regularly assigned or scheduled work week in connection with any actual fire or conflagration, including time spent going to, working at or returning from any actual fire, or any other work or duty classified as an act of mercy shall not be included in computing such average work week.(1949, S. 428d; February, 1965, P.A. 574, S. 5.)History: 1965 act deleted obsolete reference to Sec. 7-307, substituting reference to Sec. 7-306.Must be read in conjunction with Sec. 7-304 and does not permit adoption of average work week of fewer than 56 hours. 149 C. 528. Cited. 196 C. 192.
CT Gen Stat § 7-306 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-306 - Earnings.

 There shall be no diminution in the weekly earnings of the employees concerned, nor shall there be any lessening of any of their existing rights and privileges, as the result of the adoption of the work week provided in sections 7-303 to 7-306, inclusive.(1949, S. 429d; February, 1965, P.A. 574, S. 6.)History: 1965 act deleted obsolete reference to Sec. 7-307, substituting reference to Sec. 7-306.Cited. 149 C. 527; 196 C. 192.
CT Gen Stat § 7-307 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-307 - Age requirement for veterans.

 Section 7-307 is repealed.(1949, S. 430d; 1957, P.A. 163, S. 14; 1959, P.A. 247.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-309 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-309 - Liability for damage caused by motor vehicle used for fire fighting.

 Section 7-309 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 680; 1959, P.A. 446, S. 2.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-310 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-310 - Operation of fire equipment in and provision of personnel and assistance to other municipality.

 Any city, town, borough, fire district, independent fire department or independent fire company may locate, use, man and operate fire stations, fire apparatus, ambulances, rescue trucks, radio and fire-alarm systems and other fire equipment and provide personnel and other assistance for the investigation of the cause and origin of fires, in any other city, town, borough or fire district, upon such terms respecting the location, use, management and operation as may be mutually agreed upon between the boards of fire commissioners or other persons having the management and control of the fire departments or fire companies. Any officer or member of a fire department or fire company while operating outside the jurisdictional limits of his fire department or fire company in accord with such an agreement shall have the same rights, privileges and immunities that are granted him when operating within the jurisdictional limits of his fire department or fire company.(1949 Rev., S. 679; 1963, P.A. 136; P.A. 73-58.)History: 1963 act extended section to independent fire departments or companies, included ambulances, rescue trucks, radio systems and other fire equipment and extended rights, privileges and immunities to firemen operating outside their jurisdiction in accord with agreement; P.A. 73-58 added provision re investigations of fires.Cited. 140 C. 414; 196 C. 192.
CT Gen Stat § 7-310a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-310a - Municipal and volunteer fire department fire apparatus inspection, maintenance and testing requirements.

 Each municipal and volunteer fire department shall maintain (1) the pump and aerial components of such department's fire apparatus in compliance with the inspection, maintenance and testing requirements of standard 1911 of the National Fire Protection Association, and (2) such fire department's apparatus in compliance with the requirements of 49 CFR 393, Subparts A to E, inclusive, G and J, as amended from time to time, 49 CFR 396.1 to 396.25, inclusive, as amended from time to time, and 49 CFR Chapter III, Subchapter B, Appendix G, as amended from time to time.(P.A. 17-175, S. 1.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-311 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-311 - Liability for delay in reporting fire or other emergency.

 No person, corporation, partnership or association which is authorized by any town, city or borough fire department or by any volunteer fire company to receive any report of fire or other emergency, including but not limited to requests for an ambulance or rescue equipment and which agrees to receive and transmit such report to such fire department, volunteer fire company or other appropriate municipal agency or department shall be liable in any civil action for damage to persons or property caused by delay in reporting such fire or other such emergency, unless such delay is the result of the gross negligence of such person, corporation, partnership or association.(1953, S. 267d; P.A. 80-140.)History: P.A. 80-140 added reports of other emergencies, including requests for ambulance or rescue equipment to provisions of section.
CT Gen Stat § 7-312 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-312 - Liability as to use of water holes.

 Any municipality, as defined in section 7-314, or any property owner on behalf of any such municipality, may construct or maintain open water holes for the purpose of providing fire protection for such municipality, and no such municipality or property owner shall incur any liability as a result of injury to any person arising out of the maintenance of such water hole, provided such water hole has been approved by the fire-fighting organization and the municipality within whose jurisdiction such water hole is situated and provided such approval has been communicated, in writing, to the property owner on whose premises such water hole is situated.(1953, S. 268d.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-313 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-313 - Fire police.

 Section 7-313 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 666; 1963, P.A. 642, S. 7.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-313b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-313b - Authority of fire department officer to order removal of persons.

 Section 7-313b is repealed, effective October 1, 2012.(1961, P.A. 131; P.A. 77-614, S. 486, 610; P.A. 12-80, S. 193.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-313c (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-313c - Indemnification for educational expenses.

 (a) Any town, city or borough subject to the approval of its legislative body, shall indemnify any paid or volunteer member of its fire department who, after October 1, 1969, has commenced and has successfully completed a course or courses in fire technology and administration offered by the state regional community-technical colleges. Such indemnification shall be limited to expenses incurred by such member for tuition and textbook charges.(b) This section shall not apply to any member of a fire department of a town, city or borough receiving educational benefits from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs or any Connecticut fire department association.(1969, P.A. 703, S. 1, 2; P.A. 89-260, S. 6, 41; P.A. 92-126, S. 39, 48; P.A. 18-72, S. 19.)History: P.A. 89-260 in Subsec. (a) substituted “regional technical colleges” for “state technical colleges”; P.A. 92-126 changed a reference to technical colleges to community-technical colleges in Subsec. (a); P.A. 18-72 amended Subsec. (b) to replace “Veterans' Administration” with “United States Department of Veterans Affairs”.Cited. 196 C. 192.Cited. 44 CS 230.
CT Gen Stat § 7-313d (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-313d - Local fire department's authority to inspect state facilities.

 Each local fire department or company shall have the authority to annually inspect, for fire protection purposes, any building or facility owned, operated or leased by the state and located within the jurisdiction of such local fire department or company. In the event of structural modification of such building or facility or the addition, removal or relocation of fire protection devices or equipment within, or in the immediate vicinity of, such building or facility, such local fire department or company shall be given written notice of such alteration within ten days after its completion by the person in charge of such building or facility, and shall have the authority to inspect such building or facility within thirty days after receipt of such notice, notwithstanding the fact that it may have already made its annual inspection of such building or facility.(P.A. 75-307, S. 1, 2.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-313e (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-313e - Authority of fire officer during emergency.

 Notwithstanding any provision in the general statutes or a municipal ordinance to the contrary, the fire chief of the municipality, or any member serving in the capacity of fire officer-in-charge, shall, when any fire department or company is responding to or operating at a fire, service call, or other emergency, within such municipality, have the authority to: (a) Control and direct emergency activities at such scene; (b) order any person to leave any building or place in the vicinity of such fire for the purpose of protecting such person from injury; (c) blockade any public highway, street, or private right-of-way temporarily while at such scene; (d) at any time of the day or night, enter any building, including a private dwelling, or upon any premises where a fire is in progress or near the scene of any fire, or where there is reasonable cause to believe a fire is in progress, for the purpose of extinguishing the fire or preventing its spread; (e) inspect for the purposes of preventing fires and preplanning the control of fire all buildings, structures or other places in their fire district, except the interior of private dwellings, where any combustible material, including but not limited to waste paper, rags, shavings, waste, leather, rubber, crates, boxes, barrels or rubbish, that is or may become dangerous as a fire menace to such buildings, structures or other places has been allowed to accumulate or where such chief or his designated representative has reason to believe that such material has accumulated or is liable to be accumulated; (f) order disengagement or discouplement of any convoy, caravan or train of vehicles, craft or railway cars for the purpose of extinguishing a fire or preventing its spread; and (g) take command of any industrial fire brigade or fire chief when such fire company or department has been called to such industry.(P.A. 75-599; P.A. 77-232.)History: P.A. 77-232 clarified authority of fire officers, extending authority to time when responding to call and including emergencies and service calls as well as fire, deleting authority to trespass without liability and adding authority to make inspections and to order disbanding of convoys, caravans etc.Cited. 24 CA 598.
CT Gen Stat § 7-313f (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-313f - Authority of fire chiefs at certain state facilities.

 Notwithstanding section 7-313e or any other provision of the general statutes, or any provision of a municipal ordinance, the fire chief of the fire department at The University of Connecticut at Storrs, The University of Connecticut Health Center or the Southbury Training School, or any member of such department serving in the capacity of fire officer-in-charge, shall, whenever any fire department or company is responding to or operating at a fire, service call or other emergency at said university, health center or training school, (1) control and direct emergency activities at such scene, (2) order any person to leave any building or place in the vicinity of such fire, service call or emergency for the purpose of protecting such person from injury, and (3) have all other authority provided to a fire chief or fire officer-in-charge pursuant to section 7-313e.(P.A. 13-145, S. 1.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-313g (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-313g - “Firefighter” defined.

 For purposes of this section and sections 3-123, 7-313h to 7-313k inclusive, and 29-303, “firefighter” shall include any (1) local fire marshal, deputy fire marshal, fire investigator, fire inspector and such other classes of inspectors and investigators for whom the State Fire Marshal and the Codes and Standards Committee, acting jointly, have adopted minimum standards of qualification pursuant to section 29-298; and (2) uniformed member of a paid municipal, state or volunteer fire department.(P.A. 16-10, S. 2.)History: P.A. 16-10 effective February 1, 2017.
CT Gen Stat § 7-313h (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-313h - Firefighters cancer relief account.

 (a) There is established an account to be known as the “firefighters cancer relief account” which shall be a separate, nonlapsing account within the General Fund. The account shall contain any moneys required by law to be deposited in the account. Moneys in the account shall be expended by the cancer relief subcommittee of the Connecticut State Firefighters Association, established pursuant to section 7-313i, for the purposes of providing wage replacement benefits to firefighters who are diagnosed with a condition of cancer described in section 7-313j.(b) The State Treasurer shall invest the moneys deposited in the firefighters cancer relief account in a manner reasonable and appropriate to achieve the objectives of such account, exercising the discretion and care of a prudent person in similar circumstances with similar objectives. The State Treasurer shall give due consideration to rate of return, risk, term or maturity, diversification of the total portfolio within such account, liquidity, the projected disbursements and expenditures, and the expected payments, deposits, contributions and gifts to be received. The moneys in such account shall be continuously invested and reinvested in a manner consistent with the objectives of such account until disbursed in accordance with section 3-123 and section 7-313i.(c) The moneys in the firefighters cancer relief account shall be used solely for the purposes of providing wage replacement benefits to firefighters who are diagnosed with a condition of cancer described in section 7-313j and to fund the expenses of administering the firefighters cancer relief program established pursuant to section 7-313j.(P.A. 16-10, S. 3; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 219.)History: P.A. 16-10 effective February 1, 2017; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 amended Subsec. (a) to delete reference to moneys deposited pursuant to Sec. 16-256g, effective October 31, 2017.
CT Gen Stat § 7-313k (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-313k - Annual report re firefighters cancer relief account and firefighters cancer relief program.

 Not later than January 1, 2018, and annually thereafter, the State Treasurer, in consultation with the Connecticut State Firefighters Association, shall submit a report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to public safety on the status of the firefighters cancer relief account established pursuant to section 7-313h and the firefighters cancer relief program established pursuant to section 7-313j. Such report shall include (1) the balance of the account, (2) the projected and actual participation in the program, and (3) the demographic information of each firefighter who receives benefits pursuant to such program, including gender, age, town of residence and income level.(P.A. 16-10, S. 6.)History: P.A. 16-10 effective February 1, 2017.
CT Gen Stat § 7-313l (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-313l - Firefighter training on resilience and self-care techniques.

 In consultation with the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, the Commission on Fire Prevention and Control, the State Fire Marshal and the Codes and Standards Committee and any other state or municipal entity providing training to a firefighter, as defined in section 31-294k, shall provide resilience and self-care technique training for any individual who begins initial training as a firefighter on or after January 1, 2020.(P.A. 19-17, S. 10.)History: P.A. 19-17 effective July 1, 2019.