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CT Gen Stat § 1-1j (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 1 - Provisions of General Application|Chapter 1 - Construction of Statutes|Section 1-1j - Methods of payment for licenses, fees, costs or fines.

 (a) Each state agency, as defined in section 4-166, shall accept payment in cash or by check, draft or money order for any license issued by such agency pursuant to the provisions of the general statutes.(b) Except as otherwise provided by the general statutes, the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management may authorize any state agency (1) to accept payment of any fee, cost or fine payable to such agency by means of a credit card, charge card or debit card, or an electronic payment service, and (2) to charge a service fee for any such payment made by credit card, charge card or debit card or an electronic payment service. Such service fee shall be (A) related to the cost of service, (B) uniform for all credit cards, charge cards and debit cards accepted, and (C) applied only when allowed by the operating rules and regulations of the credit card, charge card or debit card issuer or processor involved or when authorized in writing by such issuer or processor. Payments by credit card, charge card, debit card or an electronic payment service shall be made at such times and under such conditions as the secretary may prescribe in regulations adopted in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54. Payment of a fee, cost or fine by credit card, charge card, debit card or an electronic payment service shall constitute full payment of such fee, regardless of any discount applied by a credit card company.(May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-6, S. 86, 117; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 99-1, S. 2, 51; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-7, S. 55.)History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 99-1 added provisions concerning payment of license fees with a credit card, charge card or debit card, effective July 1, 1999; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-7 designated existing provisions as Subsecs. (a) and (b) and amended Subsec. (b) to authorize state agencies to accept payment of any fee, cost or fine by credit card, charge card, debit card or electronic payment service, effective October 5, 2009.
CT Gen Stat § 1-1k (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 1 - Provisions of General Application|Chapter 1 - Construction of Statutes|Section 1-1k - “Victim of crime”, “crime victim”, defined.

 Except as otherwise provided by the general statutes, “victim of crime” or “crime victim” means an individual who suffers direct or threatened physical, emotional or financial harm as a result of a crime and includes immediate family members of a minor, incompetent individual or homicide victim and a person designated by a homicide victim in accordance with section 1-56r.(P.A. 97-257, S. 6, 13; P.A. 02-105, S. 11.)History: P.A. 97-257 effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 02-105 added a person designated by a homicide victim to definition.
CT Gen Stat § 1-1l (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 1 - Provisions of General Application|Chapter 1 - Construction of Statutes|Section 1-1l - Holocaust victims' settlement payments excluded from income for purposes of needs-based programs.

 Any Holocaust victims' settlement payment, as defined in subdivision (35) of section 12-701, to a Holocaust victim, as defined in subdivision (36) of section 12-701, shall be excluded from any calculation of income for purposes of determining the eligibility for, or the benefit level of, such individual in any needs-based program under the general statutes or determining the ability of such individual to repay benefits to the state as a legally liable relative of a recipient of assistance under such program.(P.A. 00-82, S. 5, 6.)History: P.A. 00-82 effective May 26, 2000, and applicable to applications for state assistance pending on or after said date.
CT Gen Stat § 1-1m (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 1 - Provisions of General Application|Chapter 1 - Construction of Statutes|Section 1-1m - Applicability of marriage terms.

 Wherever in the general statutes or the public acts the term “husband”, “wife”, “groom”, “bride”, “widower” or “widow” is used, such term shall be deemed to include one party to a marriage between two persons of the same sex.(P.A. 09-13, S. 8.)History: P.A. 09-13 effective April 23, 2009.
CT Gen Stat § 1-1n (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 1 - Provisions of General Application|Chapter 1 - Construction of Statutes|Section 1-1n - “Gender identity or expression” defined.

 As used in sections 4a-60, 8-169s, 8-265c, 8-294, 8-315, 10-15c, 10-153, 10a-6, 11-24b, 16-245r, 16-247r, 28-15, 31-22p, 31-57e, 32-277, 38a-358, 42-125a, 42-125b, 46a-81aa, 52-571d and 53-37a, “gender identity or expression” means a person's gender-related identity, appearance or behavior, whether or not that gender-related identity, appearance or behavior is different from that traditionally associated with the person's physiology or assigned sex at birth, which gender-related identity can be shown by providing evidence including, but not limited to, medical history, care or treatment of the gender-related identity, consistent and uniform assertion of the gender-related identity or any other evidence that the gender-related identity is sincerely held, part of a person's core identity or not being asserted for an improper purpose.(P.A. 11-55, S. 2; P.A. 13-299, S. 1.)History: P.A. 13-299 deleted reference to repealed Sec. 32-204, effective July 1, 2013.
CT Gen Stat § 1-2 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 1 - Provisions of General Application|Chapter 1 - Construction of Statutes|Section 1-2 - Legal notices.

 Each provision of the general statutes, the special acts or the charter of any town, city or borough which requires the insertion of an advertisement of a legal notice in a daily newspaper shall be construed to permit such advertisement to be inserted in a weekly newspaper; but this section shall not be construed to reduce or otherwise affect the time required by law for giving such notice. Whenever notice of any action or other proceeding is required to be given by publication in a newspaper, either by statute or order of court, the newspaper selected for that purpose, unless otherwise expressly prescribed, shall be one having a substantial circulation in the town in which at least one of the parties, for whose benefit such notice is given, resides.(1949 Rev., S. 8890, 8892; P.A. 79-375.)History: P.A. 79-375 rephrased provisions but made no substantive changes.
CT Gen Stat § 1-2a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 1 - Provisions of General Application|Chapter 1 - Construction of Statutes|Section 1-2a - Construction of term “postmark”.

 (a) For purposes of sections 1-206, 3-114i, 4-147, 9-23g, 9-153b, 9-311, 9-608, 10-183g, 12-146, 20-429, 31-241, 31-248, 31-249a, 33-603, 33-663, 33-929, 33-1003, 33-1053, 33-1219, 38a-716 and 42-243 (1) any reference to the United States mail or a postmark shall be treated as including a reference to any delivery service designated by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States pursuant to Section 7502 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as from time to time amended, (2) any reference to a postmark made by the United States Postal Service shall be treated as including a reference to any date recorded or marked in the manner described in said Section 7502 of said Internal Revenue Code by a designated delivery service, and (3) any equivalent of registered or certified mail designated by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States pursuant to said Section 7502 of said Internal Revenue Code shall be included within the meaning of registered or certified mail.(b) The Legislative Commissioners' Office shall, in codifying the provisions of this section, make such technical, grammatical and punctuation changes and statutory placements and classifications, including, but not limited to, the addition of newly enacted material to the sections listed in subsection (a) of this section as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.(P.A. 99-121, S. 27, 28; P.A. 14-182, S. 1.)History: P.A. 99-121 effective June 3, 1999; P.A. 14-182 deleted references to Secs. 3-114e, 3-114f and 9-65 in Subsec. (a), effective June 12, 2014.
CT Gen Stat § 1-2b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 1 - Provisions of General Application|Chapter 1 - Construction of Statutes|Section 1-2b - Construction of term “certified mail, return receipt requested”.

 (a) For purposes of sections 1-100oo, 1-206, 2-71r, 4-176, 4-180, 4-183, 4a-52a, 4a-60q, 4a-63, 4a-100, 4e-34, 4e-35, 7-65, 7-148w, 7-247a, 7-473c, 7-478e, 8-3b, 8-3i, 8-7d, 8-26b, 8-169r, 8-293, 9-388, 9-608, 9-623, 10a-22c, 10a-22i, 10a-34a, 10a-109n, 12-35, 12-157, 12-242ii, 12-242jj, 13a-80, 13a-123, 15-11a, 16-41, 16-50c, 16-50d, 17a-103b, 19a-87, 19a-87c, 19a-209c, 19a-332e, 19a-343a, 19a-486a, 19a-486c, 19a-486d, 19a-497, 19a-507b, 20-205a, 20-325a, 21-63, 21-80, 22-7, 22a-6b, 22a-6u, 22a-30, 22a-42d, 22a-42f, 22a-66d, 22a-137, 22a-178, 22a-225, 22a-228, 22a-250, 22a-354p, 22a-354s, 22a-354t, 22a-361, 22a-371, 22a-401, 22a-403, 22a-433, 22a-436, 22a-449f, 22a-449l, 22a-449n, 22a-504, 22a-626, 23-46, 23-65j, 23-651, 23-65p, 25-32, 25-32e, 25-331, 25-34, 25-204, 25-234, 29-108d, 31-57c, 31-57d, 31-355, 32-613, 33-663, 33-929, 33-1053, 33-1219, 34-521, 35-42, 36a-50, 36a-51, 36a-52, 36a-53, 36a-82, 36a-184, 36a-493, 36b-62, 36b-72, 38-323a, 38a-344, 38a-676, 38a-724, 38a-788, 42-158j, 42-161, 42-181, 42-182, 42-186, 42-271, 45a-716, 46b-115w, 46b-128, 47-42d, 47-74f, 47-88b, 47-236, 47-284, 47a-11b, 47a-11d, 47a-13a, 47a-14h, 47a-56b, 49-2, 49-4a, 49-8, 49-8a, 49-10b, 49-31b, 49-51, 49-70, 51-90e, 52-57, 52-59b, 52-63, 52-64, 52-195c, 52-350e, 52-351b, 52-361a, 52-362, 52-565a, 52-605, 52-606, 53-401, 53a-128, 53a-128d, 53a-207 and 54-82c and chapter 965, any reference to certified mail, return receipt requested, shall include mail, electronic, and digital methods of receiving the return receipt, including all methods of receiving the return receipt identified by the Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service in Chapter 500 of the Domestic Mail Manual or any subsequent corresponding document of the United States Postal Service.(b) The Legislative Commissioners' Office shall, in codifying the provisions of this section, make such technical, grammatical and punctuation changes and statutory placements and classifications, including, but not limited to, the addition of newly enacted material to the sections listed in subsection (a) of this section as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.(P.A. 10-179, S. 40; P.A. 11-137, S. 2; 11-237, S. 1; P.A. 13-277, S. 21; P.A. 14-94, S. 10; P.A. 15-14, S. 1.)History: P.A. 10-179 effective May 7, 2010; P.A. 11-137 amended Subsec. (a) by adding references to Secs. 4-176 and 4-180, effective July 8, 2011; P.A. 11-237 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting reference to Sec. 46a-82e; P.A. 13-277 amended Subsec. (a) to delete reference to Sec. 13a-85c, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 14-94 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting reference to Sec. 22a-285b, effective June 6, 2014; P.A. 15-14 made a technical change in Subsec. (b).
CT Gen Stat § 1-2c (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 1 - Provisions of General Application|Chapter 1 - Construction of Statutes|Section 1-2c - Construction of term “electronic mail”.

 Wherever in the general statutes or public acts the term “electronic mail” is used, such term shall be deemed to include an electronic delivery service that delivers communications to their intended recipients by matching an electronic mail address to a person's United States Postal Service physical address and uses security methods such as passwords or encryption.(P.A. 12-185, S. 1.)
CT Gen Stat § 1-2z (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 1 - Provisions of General Application|Chapter 1 - Construction of Statutes|Section 1-2z - Plain meaning rule.

 The meaning of a statute shall, in the first instance, be ascertained from the text of the statute itself and its relationship to other statutes. If, after examining such text and considering such relationship, the meaning of such text is plain and unambiguous and does not yield absurd or unworkable results, extratextual evidence of the meaning of the statute shall not be considered.(P.A. 03-154, S. 1.)Construing the plain meaning of Sec. 22a-19 and its relationship to other statutes, court concluded that Sec. 22a-19 allows town to intervene in judicial review of decisions of its wetlands and zoning commission, does not conflict with Secs. 8-1 and 22a-42, which delegates municipal authority to the agencies, and does not yield an absurd or unworkable result. 280 C. 405. Statute did not overrule the principle that ambiguous statutory language is not unconstitutionally vague if the legislative history establishes a clear meaning. 284 C. 573. Under section, ambiguity determination is not limited to the statute itself, but requires viewing the statute at issue in context of other related statutes. Id., 838. The test to determine ambiguity is whether the statute, when read in context, is susceptible to more than one reasonable interpretation. Id. Plain meaning rule applied to Workers' Compensation Act provisions. 285 C. 348. Because Sec. 14-164(c) is ambiguous re implicit waiver of sovereign immunity, such ambiguity means waiver of sovereign immunity is not implied and therefore no extratextual evidence is necessary. 293 C. 382. Section does not overrule the prior interpretation of any statutory provision merely because the Court failed to apply the plain meaning rule, rather the ordinary principles of stare decisis apply to interpretations of statutory provisions that predate the enactment of section. 326 C. 190.When application of alternative minimum tax credit statute resulted in double taxation and a mathematical impossibility that an individual would ever be eligible to recoup a credit, which was an absurd or unworkable result, court looked to extratextual evidence to determine statute's meaning. 98 CA 439. Under section, cannot look beyond text of statutory language if that language, as applied to facts of the case, is plain and unambiguous and does not yield a bizarre or unworkable result. 105 CA 124.Cited. 49 CS 43.
CT Gen Stat § 1-3 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 1 - Provisions of General Application|Chapter 1 - Construction of Statutes|Section 1-3 - Validity of separate provisions of acts.

 If any provision of any act passed by the General Assembly or its application to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of such act.(1949 Rev., S. 8893.)If statute is partially invalid, valid part may stand if it and the invalid part are not so mutually connected and dependent as to indicate legislative intent that they are inseparable. 146 C. 78. To overcome presumption of separability it must be shown the portion declared invalid is so mutually connected and dependent on remainder as to indicate an intent they should stand or fall together, and to warrant belief the legislature would not have adopted remainder independently of invalid portion; similarly when application to distinct classes of persons is at issue. 171 C. 141. Cited. 191 C. 336; 199 C. 693; 201 C. 435; 215 C. 675.Cited. 32 CA 656; judgment reversed in part, see 232 C. 345.Cited. 30 CS 87.
CT Gen Stat § 1-3a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 1 - Provisions of General Application|Chapter 1 - Construction of Statutes|Section 1-3a - License or permit fee due on Saturday, Sunday or holiday.

 Any state or municipal license or permit fee which is due and payable on a date certain which falls on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday shall be payable on the next business day thereafter.(P.A. 75-196.)
CT Gen Stat § 1-3b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 1 - Provisions of General Application|Chapter 1 - Construction of Statutes|Section 1-3b - Enforcement of subpoena powers.

 Whenever any section of the general statutes or any section of any special act authorizes any person, committee, board, officer, commission, council or agency to issue any subpoena, and such section does not specifically provide for the enforcement of such subpoena, if the person to whom such subpoena is issued fails to appear or if having appeared refuses to testify or produce the evidence required by such subpoena, the Superior Court, upon application of such person, committee, board, officer, commission, council or agency, shall have jurisdiction to order such person to appear or to give testimony or produce such evidence, as the case may be.(P.A. 78-143.)Cited. 225 C. 700.
CT Gen Stat § 1-5 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 1 - Provisions of General Application|Chapter 2 - Legal Holidays and Standard of Time|Section 1-5 - Independence Day celebration.

 As a part of the official observance of Independence Day, appropriate ceremonies shall be held in the hall of flags of the State Capitol on July fourth in each year. The Governor shall issue a proclamation recalling to the citizens of the state the historic significance of Independence Day. The Governor shall designate a state official of a patriotic society or a state official of a veterans organization to plan and have charge of such ceremonies, in such manner that the conduct of such ceremonies shall be alternated from year to year between an official of a patriotic society and an official of a veterans organization. The necessary expense of such ceremony, not exceeding seven hundred and fifty dollars each year, shall be paid to the society or organization conducting the ceremonies.(1949 Rev., S. 8881; 1949, S. 3355d; 1963, P.A. 287.)History: 1963 act added requirement of governor's proclamation.
CT Gen Stat § 1-6 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 1 - Provisions of General Application|Chapter 2 - Legal Holidays and Standard of Time|Section 1-6 - Standard of time.

 The standard of time for the seventy-fifth meridian west of Greenwich shall be the standard of time for this state, except that the standard of time of this state shall be one hour in advance of such established time from two o'clock ante meridian on the second Sunday in March until two o'clock ante meridian on the first Sunday in November.(1949 Rev., S. 8882; 1955, S. 3356d; 1967, P.A. 334; P.A. 87-53, S. 2, 3; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-2, S. 31.)History: 1967 act changed beginning hour of daylight saving time from one o'clock a.m. to two o'clock a.m. on last Sunday in April and repealed provision for imposing or extending daylight saving time by governor's proclamation; P.A. 87-53 changed the beginning of daylight savings time from the last Sunday in April to the first Sunday in April; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-2 changed beginning of daylight savings time from first Sunday in April to second Sunday in March and changed end of daylight savings time from last Sunday in October to first Sunday in November.Cited. 100 C. 431.
CT Gen Stat § 1-7 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 1 - Provisions of General Application|Chapter 3 - Public Records: General Provisions|Section 1-7 - Recording or copying by photographic, micrographic, electronic imaging or other process.

 When any officer, office, court, commission, board, institution, department, agent or employee of the state, or of any political subdivision thereof, is required or authorized by law or has the duty to record or copy any document, plat, paper or instrument of writing, such recording or copying may be done by any photographic, micrographic, electronic imaging or other process, which clearly and accurately copies, photographs or otherwise reproduces the original document, plat, paper or instrument of writing. Each such photographic, micrographic, electronic imaging or other process shall be subject to the approval of the Public Records Administrator. Properly certified reproductions of any record made under the provisions of this section shall be admissible in evidence in the same manner and entitled to the same weight as copies made and certified from the original.(1949 Rev., S. 8883; P.A. 97-89, S. 1.)History: P.A. 97-89 authorized recording or copying by micrographic, electronic imaging or other process and changed the reference to “Properly certified photographic copies” to “Properly certified reproductions”.See Sec. 3-98 re copies of books, records, papers or documents filed, as required by law, for record in the office of the Secretary of the State.See Sec. 11-8(b) re appointment of Public Records Administrator.Cited. 197 C. 698; 206 C. 449.
CT Gen Stat § 1-8 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 1 - Provisions of General Application|Chapter 3 - Public Records: General Provisions|Section 1-8 - “Recorded” defined.

 When books, records, papers or documents are required to be recorded by law, the word “recorded” shall be construed to include, and such recording may be made by, photographic, micrographic, electronic imaging or any other process with the reproduced image proportional in size to the original. Each such photographic, micrographic, electronic imaging or other process shall be subject to the approval of the Public Records Administrator.(1949 Rev., S. 8884; P.A. 97-89, S. 2.)History: P.A. 97-89 amended definition of “recorded” by deleting provisions describing photographic reproduction, adding “micrographic, electronic imaging or any other process” and substituting “reproduced image proportional” for “reproduced image in such ratio”.See Sec. 11-8(b) re appointment of Public Records Administrator.Cited. 206 C. 449.
CT Gen Stat § 1-9 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 1 - Provisions of General Application|Chapter 3 - Public Records: General Provisions|Section 1-9 - Alkaline paper for permanent records.

 No person having custody of any permanent record or register in any department or office of the state, or of any political subdivision thereof, or of any probate district, shall use or permit to be used for recording purposes any paper other than alkaline paper that meets or exceeds the American National Standards Institute standards for permanent paper and meets such additional specifications as may be issued by the Public Records Administrator, unless such paper is not available. Said administrator shall furnish to each person having custody of any such permanent record a list of such papers. Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars.(1949 Rev., S. 1638; 1959, P.A. 152, S. 83; 1967, P.A. 468; P.A. 89-167, S. 3; P.A. 91-144, S. 1.)History: 1959 act deleted “county”; 1967 act changed “book of record” to “permanent record”, “registry” to “register” and “town, city, borough” to “political subdivision” and required paper used to consist of 100% rag content; P.A. 89-167 substituted alkaline paper for 100% rag content paper; P.A. 91-144 substituted “paper that meets or exceeds the American National Standards Institute standards for permanent paper and meets such additional specifications as may be issued by the public records administrator, unless such paper is not available” for “papers that conform to American National Standards Institute for permanent paper for printed library materials (ANSI Z3948) approved by the public records administrator”.See Sec. 11-8 re appointment of Public Records Administrator.Cited. 206 C. 449.
CT Gen Stat § 1-9a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 1 - Provisions of General Application|Chapter 3 - Public Records: General Provisions|Section 1-9a - Alkaline paper for executive branch photocopies.

 All photocopies made by each state officer or agency of the executive branch shall be made using paper that meets or exceeds the American National Standards Institute standards for permanent paper, unless such paper is not available.(P.A. 91-144, S. 6.)
CT Gen Stat § 1-9b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 1 - Provisions of General Application|Chapter 3 - Public Records: General Provisions|Section 1-9b - Applicability of alkaline paper requirements.

 Section 1-9b is repealed, effective October 1, 2002.(P.A. 91-144, S. 8; P.A. 96-88, S. 1, 9; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)