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CT Gen Stat § 7-273ll (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 103b - Municipal Resource Recovery Authorities|Section 7-273ll - Special fund.

 Any municipality which has issued bonds or notes in accordance with this chapter may by ordinance establish a special fund for payment of all or any part of such bonds or notes or interest thereon, may make and revise necessary rules and regulations not contrary to this chapter for the management of such special fund and may provide for payments into such special fund of all or any part of any revenues from the operation of a resource recovery facility or funds from any other source. The municipality shall not withdraw any moneys from the fund except for such purpose and shall not alter any vote or agreement in respect to revenues to be paid into the fund until such bonds or notes have been paid in full or the special fund is sufficient to do so.(P.A. 81-213, S. 14, 18.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-273nn (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 103b - Municipal Resource Recovery Authorities|Section 7-273nn - Anticipation notes.

 In addition to its other powers under this chapter any municipality operating a resource recovery facility may issue temporary notes to be paid from anticipated income from such facility and may renew such notes annually for not more than fifteen years.(P.A. 81-213, S. 16, 18.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-273oo (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 103b - Municipal Resource Recovery Authorities|Section 7-273oo - Power to be additional.

 Any power granted by this chapter shall be in addition to, and not in derogation of, any power granted to any municipality under the provisions of any special act or of any general statute.(P.A. 81-213, S. 17, 18.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-273pp (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 103b - Municipal Resource Recovery Authorities|Section 7-273pp - Investment in bonds. Negotiability. Liens.

 (a) Bonds issued by an authority under the provisions of this chapter are hereby made securities in which all public officers and public bodies of the state and its political subdivisions, all insurance companies, credit unions, building and loan associations, investment companies, banking associations, trust companies, executors, administrators, trustees and other fiduciaries and pension, profit-sharing and retirement funds may properly and legally invest funds, including capital in their control or belonging to them. Such bonds are hereby made securities which may properly and legally be deposited with and received by any state or municipal officer or any agency or political subdivision of the state for any purpose for which the deposit of bonds or obligations of the state is now or may hereafter be authorized by law.(b) Whether or not the bonds of an authority created pursuant to this chapter are of such form and character as to be negotiable instruments under article 8 of title 42a, such bonds shall be and are hereby made negotiable instruments within the meaning of and for all the purposes of said article 8 of title 42a, subject only to the provisions of the bonds for registration.(c) Any pledge made by a municipality or an authority pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be valid and binding from the time when the pledge is made, and any revenues or other receipts, funds or moneys so pledged and thereafter received by such municipality or authority shall be subject immediately to the lien of such pledge without any physical delivery thereof or further act. The lien of any such pledge shall be valid and binding as against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract, or otherwise against the municipality or the authority, irrespective of whether such parties have notice thereof. Neither the resolution nor any other instrument by which a pledge is created need be recorded.(P.A. 85-478, S. 9, 10.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-274 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-274 - Establishment by ordinance of town police commissions; adoption by ordinance of special act provisions when police commission established thereby.

 (a) Any town may, by ordinance, establish a board of police commissioners to be elected, in accordance with the provisions of section 9-201 or to be appointed by the council or board of directors of a town, the common council or other body empowered to make ordinances of a city, the board of burgesses of a borough or the board of selectmen of a town not having a council or board of directors, provided in a town having both a board of selectmen and a representative town meeting such ordinance may designate the representative town meeting as the appointing authority, for the purpose of organizing and maintaining a police department in such town. Such board shall consist of three, five or seven electors, all of whom shall be resident taxpayers of such town. Such commissioners shall be sworn to the faithful performance of their duties and shall serve without compensation, but their actual expenses and disbursements incurred in the performance of their duties shall be paid from the town treasury.(b) For any town in which a board of police commissioners has been established pursuant to a special act, such town may, by ordinance, adopt the provisions of such special act and any amendment to such act.(1949 Rev., S. 656; 1953, S. 260d; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 19; P.A. 73-138, S. 1, 2; P.A. 74-209; P.A. 19-104, S. 1.)History: P.A. 73-138 permitted board to be appointed as well as elected; P.A. 74-209 clarified appointment provisions by listing specific appointing authorities; P.A. 19-104 designated existing provisions re establishment of board of police commissioners as Subsec. (a) and added Subsec. (b) re boards established pursuant to special act.
CT Gen Stat § 7-275 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-275 - Meetings of commissioners. Vacancies.

 The board of police commissioners shall elect one of its number to be chairman and one member to be clerk and shall hold regular meetings and keep records of the same. Meetings shall be held upon the call of the chairman or of a majority of the members of the board. A majority of the members of the board shall constitute a quorum. In the event of any vacancy upon the board, the board of selectmen shall have authority by majority vote to fill such vacancy until the next town election, at which election a member shall be elected for the unexpired portion of the term.(1949 Rev., S. 658; 1953, S. 261d.)See Sec. 9-1 for applicable definitions.Cited. 144 C. 27.Cited. 19 CS 316.
CT Gen Stat § 7-276 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-276 - Powers of commissioners.

 Such boards shall have all of the powers given by the general statutes to boards of police commissioners, shall have general management and supervision of the police department of such town and of the property and equipment used in connection therewith, shall make all needful regulations for the government thereof not contrary to law and may prescribe suitable penalties for the violation of any such regulation, including suspension or removal from office of any officer or member of such police department. Such board shall have the sole power of appointment, promotion and removal of the officers and members of such police department, under such regulations as it adopts for the purpose, and such appointees shall hold office during good behavior and until removed for cause upon written charges and after hearing. The members of such police department shall have all such authority with respect to the service of criminal process and the enforcement of the criminal laws as is vested by the general statutes in police officers and constables.(1949 Rev., S. 659.)Cited. 171 C. 553; 217 C. 73; 227 C. 363; 229 C. 703. Statutory policy committing selection, direction and dismissal of police officers to town is not inconsistent with grievance procedure in collective bargaining agreement covering discipline of police officers. 255 C. 800.Cited. 41 CA 649.Offices of police commissioner and chief of police are incompatible and, upon acceptance of one, other office is vacated. 21 CS 294. A de novo hearing on the merits does not contravene statute since only the power of appointment, promotion and removal of police officers is exclusively reserved to the commissioners. 31 CS 87. Cited. Id., 145.
CT Gen Stat § 7-277 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-277 - Town to bear expense.

 The expenses, salaries and all costs of maintenance and equipment for such police department shall be paid by such town in the same manner as other expenses of the town government.(1949 Rev., S. 660.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-277c (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-277c - Grants to municipalities for purchase of body-worn recording equipment, digital data storage devices or services and dashboard cameras with a remote recorder.

 (a) The Office of Policy and Management shall, within available resources, administer a grant program to provide a grant-in-aid to any municipality approved for such a grant-in-aid by the office, for the costs associated with (1) the purchase of body-worn recording equipment for use by the sworn members of such municipality's police department or for use by constables, police officers or other persons who perform criminal law enforcement duties under the supervision of a resident state trooper serving such municipality, and digital data storage devices or services, provided such equipment, device or service conforms to the minimal technical specifications approved pursuant to subsection (b) of section 29-6d, and (2) a first-time purchase by such municipality of one or more dashboard cameras with a remote recorder or the replacement by such municipality of one or more dashboard cameras purchased prior to December 31, 2010, with one or more dashboard cameras with a remote recorder, provided such dashboard cameras with a remote recorder conform to the minimal technical specifications approved pursuant to subsection (b) of section 29-6d.(b) Any municipality may apply for a grant-in-aid pursuant to this section to the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management on such form and in such manner as prescribed by the secretary, who may further prescribe additional technical or procurement requirements as a condition of receiving such grant-in-aid.(c) The Office of Policy and Management shall distribute grants-in-aid pursuant to this section during the fiscal years ending June 30, 2021, and June 30, 2022. Any such grant-in-aid shall be for up to fifty per cent of the cost of such purchase of body-worn recording equipment, digital data storage devices or services or dashboard cameras with a remote recorder if the municipality is a distressed municipality, as defined in section 32-9p, or up to thirty per cent of the cost of such purchase if the municipality is not a distressed municipality, provided the costs of such digital data storage services covered by a grant-in-aid shall not be for a period of service that is longer than one year.(d) For the purposes of this section, (1) “body-worn recording equipment” means an electronic recording device that is capable of recording audio and video; (2) “dashboard camera with a remote recorder” means a camera that affixes to a dashboard or windshield of a police vehicle that electronically records video of the view through the vehicle's windshield and has an electronic audio recorder that may be operated remotely; and (3) “digital data storage device or service” means a device or service that retains the data from the recordings made by body-worn recording equipment using computer data storage.(July Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-1, S. 20.)History: July Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-1 effective July 31, 2020.
CT Gen Stat § 7-278 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-278 - Hearing prior to dismissal of municipal police head. Just cause requirement. Appeal.

 No active head of any police department of any town, city or borough shall be dismissed unless there is a showing of just cause by the authority having the power of dismissal and such person 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 such authority. 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, with bad faith, malice, or without just cause.(1949, 1951, 1955, S. 425d; P.A. 74-183, S. 178, 291; P.A. 76-436, S. 288, 681; P.A. 82-472, S. 18, 183; P.A. 83-212.)History: P.A. 74-183 added reference to judicial district; P.A. 76-436 substituted superior court for court of common pleas, effective July 1, 1978; P.A. 82-472 deleted obsolete reference to county as venue for superior court; P.A. 83-212 required a showing of just cause for municipal police chief dismissals.Cited. 209 C. 353; 223 C. 354; 229 C. 703.Cited. 44 CA 611.
CT Gen Stat § 7-279 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-279 - Subpoena to appear before municipal police commissioners.

 The chief executive officer of any municipality, the clerk of the board of police commissioners in any municipality or any justice of the peace may sign and issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses before the board of police commissioners in such municipality at any lawful meeting of such board. Any such subpoena may be served in the same manner as by law provided for witnesses in civil causes, except that no fees shall be tendered to any witness at the time of such service. Any person upon whom such process has been legally served shall appear before such board in obedience to such process and testify as to any matters lawfully pending before such board. If any person upon whom such a subpoena has been served refuses to attend before such board, the clerk of such board, by direction of the board, may issue a capias, directed to some proper officer, to arrest such witness and bring him before the board to testify; and, in case such person refuses to testify, the board shall have the power to adjudge such person to be in contempt and may issue a mittimus, signed by its clerk, and commit such person to a community correctional center for not more than thirty days.(1949 Rev., S. 661; 1969, P.A. 297; P.A. 77-178, S. 1.)History: 1969 act replaced jails with community correctional centers; P.A. 77-178 replaced “city” with “municipality” and “mayor” with “chief executive officer”.This is an exercise of the police power and is not a judicial proceeding. 65 C. 33. Cited. 180 C. 243; 222 C. 799.
CT Gen Stat § 7-280 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-280 - Witness fees.

 The same fees as provided by law for witnesses in civil causes shall be paid out of the treasury of the municipality to any witnesses, except policemen, who attend and testify under the provisions of section 7-279, the amount of such fees to be certified by the mayor or clerk of such board to the proper auditing officers of the municipality.(1949 Rev., S. 662; P.A. 77-178, S. 2.)History: P.A. 77-178 replaced references to “city” with references to “municipality”.See Sec. 52-260 re witness fees.
CT Gen Stat § 7-281 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-281 - Execution of criminal process in towns, cities and boroughs. Execution of arrest warrants.

 Active members of any legally organized police force in a town, city or borough shall have the same authority to execute criminal process in their respective towns, cities or boroughs as constables have in their respective towns, and, in addition, any such member having a warrant of arrest arising out of an offense allegedly committed in the town, city or borough in which such police force is located may execute such warrant in any part of the state.(1949 Rev., S. 663; 1967, P.A. 20, S. 1.)History: 1967 act included towns and added provision concerning execution of warrants.Police officers appointed by our municipalities are officers as fully as the sheriff of the county, charged with the execution of a trust. 67 C. 310; 70 C. 121. Cited. 181 C. 562; 210 C. 333; 227 C. 363.
CT Gen Stat § 7-281a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-281a - Free use of COLLECT system.

 Each municipal police department shall have access to, and use of, the Connecticut On-Line Law Enforcement Communications Teleprocessing System without charge.(P.A. 87-427, S. 1, 2.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-282 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-282 - Municipal accident and police records.

 The police department of any city, town or borough having or receiving any memoranda, sketches, charts, written statements, reports or photographs made in the investigation of any accident wherein any person has been injured or property damaged shall preserve and retain the same for a period of at least ten years from the date of such accident. Subsequent to the final disposition of any criminal action arising out of an accident, the records hereinbefore specified and the information contained therein shall be open to public inspection, except that such records shall be available to any person involved in the accident subsequent to the issuance of a warrant or summons in such action.(1949 Rev., S. 676; 1957, P.A. 248; P.A. 80-61.)History: P.A. 80-61 raised period during which accident records must be maintained from 3 to 10 years and added provision that records be available to persons involved in accidents after warrant or summons issued.See Sec. 29-10c re state police accident records.Cited. 33 CA 727.
CT Gen Stat § 7-282a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-282a - Reporting of bomb incidents.

 Section 7-282a is repealed, effective October 1, 1997.(P.A. 76-89; P.A. 85-613, S. 86, 154; P.A. 97-162, S. 5.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-282b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-282b - Automatic telephone alarms.

 No person shall install or connect any telephone device in his residence or place of business which device is capable of automatically calling and relaying recorded messages to a Division of State Police, or municipal police or fire department telephone number unless such person has given ten days' notice of such connection or installation, in writing, to the state police troop commander, or chief law enforcement or fire safety officer, as the case may be, of the municipality where such residence or place of business is located.(P.A. 79-466; P.A. 80-5.)History: P.A. 80-5 included division of state police under provisions of section.
CT Gen Stat § 7-282c (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-282c - Filing and dissemination of reports re missing children, missing youths and certain missing persons.

 Any municipal police department which receives a report of a missing child or missing youth under eighteen years of age or a missing person who is eligible for assistance under subsection (a) of section 29-1f shall immediately accept such report for filing and inform all on-duty police officers of the existence of the missing child, missing youth or missing person report and communicate the report to other appropriate law enforcement agencies.(P.A. 85-278; P.A. 09-109, S. 1; P.A. 11-102, S. 4; 11-157, S. 1.)History: P.A. 09-109 added provisions re reports of missing persons eligible for assistance under Sec. 29-1f(a), effective July 1, 2009; P.A. 11-102 changed age of missing child from under 15 years to under 18 years of age; P.A. 11-157 added provisions re reports of missing youth under 18 years of age.
CT Gen Stat § 7-282d (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection|Section 7-282d - Imposition of pedestrian citation or traffic ticket quotas prohibited.

 No municipal police department may impose any quota with respect to the issuance of citations to pedestrians or summonses for motor vehicle violations upon any policeman in such department. Nothing in this section shall prohibit such department from using data concerning the issuance of such citations or summonses in the evaluation of an individual's work performance provided such data is not the exclusive means of evaluating such performance. As used in this section, “quota” means a specified number of citations issued to pedestrians or summonses for motor vehicle violations to be issued within a specified period of time.(P.A. 91-222, S. 2, 3; July Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-1, S. 38.)History: July Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-1 added references to citations issued to pedestrians.