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CT Gen Stat § 7-417 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees|Section 7-417 - Probation; notice of appointment or of creation or abolition of office.

 Appointments shall be on probation for a period to be fixed by the rules of the board. At the expiration of such period of probation, the appointing officer may discharge a candidate at will, but, if he is not then discharged, the appointment shall be deemed complete. The board may strike from any eligible list the name of any candidate which has remained thereon more than one year. After one-third of an eligible list has been drawn, the board may hold another examination to obtain a new list. Any person remaining on the eligible list may retain his rating or, at his option, may enter the test and obtain a new rating which shall supersede his former rating. Immediate notice in writing shall be given by the appointing power to the board of all appointments, permanent or temporary, made in the classified civil service and of all transfers, promotions, resignations or vacancies from any cause in such service, and of the date thereof, and a record of the same shall be kept by the board. When any office or employment is created or abolished or the compensation attached thereto altered, the officer or board making such change shall report it immediately in writing to the board.(1949 Rev., S. 879.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-418 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees|Section 7-418 - Inmates of institutions excepted.

 Inmates of any institution, supported in and by any political subdivision of the state, in which the merit system is adopted and a civil service board appointed, may be assigned, by the lawful authorities thereof, without test or registration, to such minor duties, in such institution, as they are fitted to perform, but without pay or compensation other than privileges or liberties of the institution, except by special permission of the civil service board.(1949 Rev., S. 880.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-419 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees|Section 7-419 - Removal of officers or employees.

 No officer or employee in the classified civil service shall be removed, discharged or reduced in rank or pay because of religious or political opinion or affiliation. No removal from the classified civil service, except at the expiration of the period of probation, shall be made by any appointing power except for reasons given in writing to the board, and a copy of such reasons shall be furnished to the person removed. Such person may thereupon file with the board in writing any proper answer to such reasons. A copy of such reasons and answer and of the order of removal shall be made a part of the records of the board and of the proper department or office; and the reasons for any change in rank or compensation within the classified service shall also be made a part of the records of the board and of the proper department or office. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be so construed as to require the examination of witnesses or any trial or hearing before or after reduction or removal.(1949 Rev., S. 881.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-420 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees|Section 7-420 - Interference with or false grading of applicants.

 No person shall, either by himself or in cooperation with any other person or persons, wilfully or corruptly defeat, deceive or obstruct any person in relation to his right of test under the provisions of this part, or falsely mark, grade, estimate or report upon the test or standing of any person so tested hereunder, or aid in so doing, or furnish to any person any special or secret information for the purpose of either improving or injuring the rating of any person so tested, or to be tested, or the prospects of any such person for appointment, employment or promotion.(1949 Rev., S. 882.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-421a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees|Section 7-421a - Inconsistent statutory or charter provisions.

 Notwithstanding any general statute, special act or local law, ordinance or charter to the contrary, the provisions of section 7-421 shall apply to all municipal employees in the classified service.(P.A. 76-424, S. 2, 4; P.A. 80-325, S. 1.)History: P.A. 80-325 specified employees in the classified service.
CT Gen Stat § 7-421b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees|Section 7-421b - Limitation on restrictions of political rights of municipal employees.

 Notwithstanding any general statute, special act or local law, ordinance or charter to the contrary, any municipality which has not adopted a merit system shall not impose restrictions on the political rights of its employees other than those provided in section 7-421.(P.A. 80-325, S. 2.)Cited. 41 CS 295.
CT Gen Stat § 7-422 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees|Section 7-422 - Personnel appeals board. Appeal to Superior Court.

 Any town, city or borough may, by ordinance, create a personnel appeals board which shall consist of five members who shall be electors of such municipality holding no salaried municipal office and whose term of office and method of election or appointment shall be fixed in the ordinance. Not more than three members shall be members of the same political party. The terms of office shall be arranged so that not more than one of such terms shall expire in any one year. Vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired portion of the term in the manner fixed in the ordinance. Three members shall constitute a quorum. Said board shall hear and determine any grievance, as defined in such ordinance, of any employee or group of employees of such town, city or borough. It shall adopt rules of procedures which shall insure any aggrieved employee a prompt and fair hearing and an opportunity to be heard in person or by a representative of his choosing. The decision of said board may be appealed to the Superior Court within ninety calendar days from the date such board renders its decision.(1953, S. 401d; P.A. 73-654; P.A. 76-436, S. 416, 681.)History: P.A. 73-654 allowed appeal from decision of board to court of common pleas, replacing former provision that board decisions were to be final and binding upon the parties; P.A. 76-436 substituted superior court for court of common pleas, effective July 1, 1978.Cited. 8 CA 165; 26 CA 45.Allows but does not require any town, city or borough to create a personnel appeals board. 35 CS 645.
CT Gen Stat § 7-423 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees|Section 7-423 - Technical services by Department of Administrative Services.

 Any municipality or other political subdivision of the state may enter into an agreement with the Commissioner of Administrative Services to procure the technical services available in the Department of Administrative Services for the establishment or continuation of local administration of a merit system. Any such agreement shall provide for the reimbursement of the state for the actual cost of such services and overhead, as determined by the commissioner.(1953, S. 402d; P.A. 77-614, S. 66, 610; P.A. 01-195, S. 109, 181.)History: P.A. 77-614 substituted commissioner and department of administrative services for personnel commissioner and department; P.A. 01-195 made technical changes, effective July 11, 2001.
CT Gen Stat § 7-424 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees|Section 7-424 - Penalty.

 Any person who, wilfully or through culpable negligence, violates any rule promulgated in accordance with the provisions of this part shall be fined not less than the amount of one month's salary of the office or position, or offices or positions, affected by such violation, nor more than the amount of two years' salary thereof, or, in case no office or position is directly affected, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than six months or be both fined and imprisoned.(1949 Rev., S. 884.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-426 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees|Section 7-426 - Separate funds. Retirement rate.

 Section 7-426 is repealed.(1957, P.A. 447, S. 2; September, 1957, P.A. 10, S. 5; P.A. 93-356, S. 15.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-427a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees|Section 7-427a - Enrollment procedures for employees of regional work force development boards. Rights of previously retired members unaffected. Transfer of contributions.

 If the majority of the members of a regional work force development board vote to participate in this part, employees of a regional work force development board who are eligible under section 7-425, and who are not members of the Municipal Employees' Retirement Fund B shall become members thereof on July 1, 1998. Membership in any other retirement system shall terminate on said date. The members of a regional work force development board shall arrange for termination of such systems, which arrangements shall include provision that the rights of members who retired prior to July 1, 1998, under such system shall not be affected and provision that any refunds of employee contributions made to such other retirement system shall be transferred to the Municipal Employees' Retirement Fund B and the appropriate amount credited to the account of each transferring employee's benefit. Each employee of the regional work force development board shall pay his pro rata share of the actual cost of such transfer at no additional cost to the municipality or board.(P.A. 97-152, S. 3.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-427b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees|Section 7-427b - Credit for prior service with private industry council or regional work force development board.

 (a) Any employee of a regional work force development board which has voted to participate in this part who previously was an employee of a private industry council shall receive credit for the purposes of retirement under the provisions of this part for the period of his service with the private industry council upon payment to the Municipal Employees' Retirement Fund of a sum equal to that which he would have paid had such service been covered by the provisions of this part, provided such sum is paid within one year of the date of such board's first participation in this part.(b) Any employee of a regional work force development board which has voted to participate in this part shall receive credit for the purposes of retirement under the provisions of this part for the period of his service with such board when such board was not participating under the provisions of this part upon payment to the Municipal Employees' Retirement Fund of a sum equal to that which he would have paid had such service been covered by the provisions of this part, provided such sum is paid within one year of the date of such board's first participation in this part.(P.A. 97-152, S. 4.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-428 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees|Section 7-428 - Retirement on account of length of service and age.

 Any member of fund B shall be eligible for retirement and to receive a retirement allowance upon completing twenty-five years of aggregate service in a participating municipality or upon attaining the age of fifty-five years, provided such employee has had five years of continuous service or fifteen years of active aggregate service in a participating municipality.(1949 Rev., S. 887; 1957, P.A. 447, S. 4; March, 1958, P.A. 16, S. 1; February, 1965, P.A. 346, S. 1; 1967, P.A. 816; P.A. 75-293, S. 2; P.A. 93-356, S. 3; P.A. 01-80, S. 6.)History: 1965 act authorized retirement of Fund A members after 35 years of aggregate service; 1967 act reduced requirement for 30 years' service under fund B to 25 years' service; P.A. 75-293 allowed retirement under fund B at age 55 with 10 years' continuous service in addition to retirement at 55 with 15 years' active aggregate service; P.A. 93-356 deleted provisions re retirement for fund A members; P.A. 01-80 replaced “ten years” with “five years”.
CT Gen Stat § 7-429 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees|Section 7-429 - Retirement of elective officers.

 If any member of a participating municipality who is an elective officer is separated from the service of the municipality by which he is employed, except for cause or by resignation, after attaining the age of sixty years and after completing at least twenty years of continuous service but before reaching the voluntary retirement age, he shall be entitled to a retirement allowance upon reaching the voluntary retirement age; provided, at the option of the elective officer, the retirement allowance may commence on the date of such separation and be payable in such an amount as may be determined by the Retirement Commission to be the actuarial equivalent of the retirement allowance that would have been payable except for the election of such option.(1957, P.A. 130.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-430 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees|Section 7-430 - Involuntary retirement; temporary retention.

 Any member, other than an elective officer, shall be retired at any time after such member has become eligible for retirement upon the recommendation of the legislative body of the municipality by which he is employed. Any member, except an elective officer, who has attained the age of sixty-five years if employed as a policeman or fireman shall be retired on the day following the attainment of such age, except that any such member, at his request and with the annual approval of the legislative body, may be retained in the employ of the participating municipality, but such person shall receive no pension payments during the period he is so retained; provided, for any member, except an elective officer, who at or before the end of three years after the effective date of participation has attained the age of sixty-five years if employed as a policeman or fireman, the compulsory retirement date shall be the end of such three years after such effective date, unless application for retirement is made before such compulsory date by the legislative body of the municipality.(1949 Rev., S. 889; 1953, S. 405d; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 47; P.A. 89-162, S. 1, 3; P.A. 93-356, S. 4.)History: P.A. 89-162 allowed policemen and firemen to work after the age of 65 with the annual approval of the legislative body of the employing municipality; P.A. 93-356 deleted a provision prohibiting police officers and firefighters from retaining active membership in the municipal employees' retirement system upon attaining age 65.
CT Gen Stat § 7-431 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees|Section 7-431 - Separation from service before voluntary retirement age.

 Any member of fund B separated from the service of the municipality by which the member is employed, except for cause, after completing at least five years of continuous service but before reaching the voluntary retirement age, shall be entitled to a retirement allowance upon reaching the voluntary retirement age; provided, at the option of the member, the retirement allowance may commence on the date of such separation and be payable in such an amount as may be determined by the Retirement Commission to be the actuarial equivalent of the retirement allowance that would have been payable except for the election of such option.(1955, S. 406d; 1957, P.A. 447, S. 5; 1967, P.A. 815; P.A. 93-356, S. 5; P.A. 01-80, S. 7.)History: 1967 act changed years of service from 15 to 10 re fund B employees; P.A. 93-356 deleted provisions re fund A members separated from municipal service prior to reaching voluntary retirement age; P.A. 01-80 replaced “ten years” with “five years” and made a technical change for the purpose of gender neutrality.Cited. 178 C. 23.
CT Gen Stat § 7-433d (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees|Section 7-433d - Injury or death of fireman while engaged in fire duties with another company.

 Any uniformed member of a paid fire department who offers his services to an officer or person in charge of another fire company which is actively engaged in fire duties, and whose services are accepted by such officer or person, shall be entitled to receive benefits under chapter 568, and under the contributory or noncontributory retirement system of the municipality for which such services were performed, in the event of his injury or death arising out of such services, as if he were a member of the fire department of such municipality.(1971, P.A. 520.)Section does not apply to paid firefighter's on-duty response to a mutual aid request from a neighboring municipality because that firefighter remains covered by his home municipality for workers' compensation benefits, and pursuant to Sec. 31-284, an employer's liability is not limited on the basis of where the employee's injury occurred, even when the employee is temporarily lent to another entity, as long as the injury occurred during the scope of the employee's employment; section applies only in good Samaritan situations in which an individual paid firefighter independently happens upon a fire in another municipality, makes a personal offer to help that is accepted, and is injured while fighting the fire. 295 C. 35.
CT Gen Stat § 7-434 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees|Section 7-434 - Continuity of service.

 Periods of absence of not more than ninety days in any one calendar year shall not be considered as breaking continuity of service. Periods of absence of more than ninety days by reason of a leave of absence granted by the appropriate authority of the municipality or where the absence is occasioned by disability necessitating the regular attendance of a physician, unless such attendance is declared unnecessary by medical authority satisfactory to the Retirement Commission, or by reason of layoff, shall not be considered as breaking continuity of service, but such periods shall not be included in determining the amount of the retirement allowance. Any member who entered any branch of the armed forces of the United States between September 16, 1940, and July 26, 1945, or who enters any of said services while the United States is at war, or engaged in any hostilities or during times of national emergency, whether declared or undeclared, or any acts incident thereto, and who is reemployed by the municipality within six months following the termination of such service, unless this period is further extended by reason of disability incurred in the course of such service, shall be credited with the period of such service to the same extent as though he had been continuously employed by the municipality and shall be considered to have made the contributions required by this part based on his regular rate of pay at the time of the commencement of such service. The period of service of any member as a full-time employee of any municipality merged or consolidated either before or after the acceptance of this part with a participating municipality shall be counted for the purpose of qualifying such member for retirement and for the purpose of computing the amount of his retirement allowance, provided such combined services shall have been continuous as defined above.(1949 Rev., S. 890; 1967, P.A. 853; P.A. 84-106, S. 1.)History: 1967 act qualified members joining armed forces when country is “engaged in any hostilities or during times of national emergency”, etc. for credit for service; P.A. 84-106 provided that absence from employment by reason of layoff shall not be considered a break in the continuity of service of the member.
CT Gen Stat § 7-434a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees|Section 7-434a - Continuation of membership during service as elected official.

 Any member of the municipal employees' retirement system elected to serve as an official of the state or any political subdivision of the state during the 1988 calendar year or thereafter may elect, during the time he so serves, but no longer than ten years, to continue his membership in said system. Any such member shall continue to make contributions to said system and shall be ineligible for membership in any other state or municipal retirement system during such time.(P.A. 90-308, S. 13, 15.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-435 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees|Section 7-435 - Retirement benefits for members of fund A.

 Section 7-435 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 891; 1957, P.A. 447, S. 6; 1959, P.A. 471, S. 1; 1967, P.A. 547, S. 2; 1971, P.A. 644, S. 1; P.A. 79-376, S. 13; P.A. 84-106, S. 2; P.A. 93-356, S. 15.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-436a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees|Section 7-436a - Exclusion of period when service was eligible for special act pension system in computation of retirement credit. Inclusion of certain periods of such service.

 (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, in computing the length of service for municipal retirement in accordance with the provisions of section 7-436, no period of employment during which a member was eligible for membership in any pension system established by or under the authority of any special act shall be counted as service with respect to the computation of his retirement allowance.(b) A member may receive retirement credit for a period of employment described in subsection (a) of this section if (1) such member is not receiving or entitled to receive a retirement benefit based on such employment, (2) such employment was in a municipality or department for which participation under this part has subsequently been accepted and (3) such member contributes an amount determined by the Retirement Commission to be necessary to fund any increase in benefits resulting from receipt of such credit to the Municipal Employees' Retirement Fund.(1959, P.A. 238; P.A. 80-100, S. 1; P.A. 93-356, S. 7.)History: P.A. 80-100 added Subsec. (b) re credit for period of employment during which membership in system established under special act was held; P.A. 93-356 amended Subsec. (a) to delete reference to Sec. 7-435 re computation of retirement credit for fund A members.