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CT Gen Stat § 7-149a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers|Section 7-149a - Designation of scenic roads. Appeal. Maintenance of highway.

 (a) Any town, city or borough may, by ordinance, designate highways or portions of highways as scenic roads and may regulate future alterations and improvements on such designated scenic roads, including, but not limited to, widening of the right-of-way or of the traveled portion of the highway, paving, changes of grade, straightening, removal of stone walls and removal of mature trees. No state highway or portion thereof may be designated as a scenic road under the provisions of this section.(b) The power to designate such scenic roads may be delegated by ordinance to a planning commission or a combined planning and zoning commission. The ordinance shall prescribe the standards and procedures to be used to determine which highways or portions of highways shall be designated as scenic roads, except that to be designated as a scenic road, a highway or portion of a highway must be free of intensive commercial development and intensive vehicular traffic and must meet at least one of the following criteria: (1) It is unpaved; (2) it is bordered by mature trees or stone walls; (3) the traveled portion is no more than twenty feet in width; (4) it offers scenic views; (5) it blends naturally into the surrounding terrain, or (6) it parallels or crosses over brooks, streams, lakes or ponds.(c) No highway or portion of a highway may be designated as a scenic road under this section unless the owners of a majority of lot frontage abutting the highway or portion of the highway agree to the designation by filing a written statement of approval with the town clerk of such town. The scenic road designation may be rescinded by the same designating authority, using the same procedures and having the written concurrence of the owners of a majority of lot frontage abutting the highway or portion of the highway.(d) Any person aggrieved by a designation of a highway or portion of a highway as a scenic road pursuant to this section by a planning commission or a combined planning and zoning commission may appeal such designation in the manner and utilizing the same standards of review provided for appeals from the decisions of planning commissions under section 8-8.(e) Any highway or portion of any highway designated as a scenic road shall be maintained by the town, city or borough in good and sufficient repair and in passable condition. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prohibit a person owning or occupying land abutting a scenic road from maintaining and repairing the land which abuts the scenic road if the maintenance or repair occurs on land not within the right-of-way, paved or unpaved, of the scenic road.(P.A. 81-401, S. 1, 4; P.A. 89-356, S. 3.)History: P.A. 89-356 amended Subsec. (d) to replace reference to Sec. 8-28 with Sec. 8-8.
CT Gen Stat § 7-149b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers|Section 7-149b - Regulation of commercial unmanned aircraft.

 (a) As used in this section, “commercial unmanned aircraft” means an aircraft operated remotely by a pilot in command holding a valid remote pilot certificate with a small unmanned aircraft systems rating issued by the Federal Aviation Administration.(b) No municipality shall enact or enforce an ordinance or resolution that regulates the ownership, possession, purchase, sale, use, transportation or operation of any commercial unmanned aircraft or otherwise regulate the ownership, possession, purchase, sale, use, transportation or operation of such aircraft, except as otherwise authorized by state and federal law, and to the extent they do not conflict with policies and procedures adopted by the Connecticut Airport Authority. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, any municipality that is also a water company, as defined in section 25-32a, may enact and enforce ordinances or resolutions that regulate or prohibit the use or operation of private and commercial unmanned aircraft over such municipality's public water supply and Class I or Class II land, as described in section 25-37c, provided such ordinances or resolutions do not conflict with federal law or policies and procedures adopted by the Connecticut Airport Authority.(P.A. 17-52, S. 1.)History: P.A. 17-52 effective June 13, 2017.
CT Gen Stat § 7-151b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers|Section 7-151b - Appointment of lake patrolmen. Requirements for carrying a firearm or baton by lake patrolmen. Liability. Training courses.

 (a) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may appoint lake patrolmen to enforce any boating laws delegated by said commissioner. Any such lake patrolman may carry a firearm or baton, or both, only upon completion of a basic police training course defined in section 7-294a or a firearms safety course offered by the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Such lake patrolmen shall not be construed to be state employees and compensation therefore shall be paid by the municipality or lake authority responsible for the lake. Such lake patrolmen may use their own vessels to enforce the provisions of this section, provided the state shall not be liable for any damage caused by a lake patrolman using such vessel in the course of such lake patrolman's duties. A municipality employing lake patrolmen shall assume liability for damage caused by such patrolmen pursuant to section 7-465. A lake authority may protect and save harmless any lake patrolman employed by the authority from financial loss and expense, including legal fees and costs, if any, arising out of any claim, demand, suit or judgment by reason of alleged negligence on the part of such lake patrolman while acting in the scope of such lake patrolman's employment.(b) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall formulate training courses for lake patrolmen appointed pursuant to this section.(P.A. 88-98, S. 5, 6; P.A. 01-204, S. 27; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-9, S. 73, 131; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)History: P.A. 01-204 amended Subsec. (a) by adding provision to allow a lake patrolman to carry a baton and by making technical changes, including changes for purposes of gender neutrality; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-9 changed effective date of P.A. 01-204 from October 1, 2001, to July 11, 2001, effective July 1, 2001; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Commissioner of Environmental Protection” and “Department of Environmental Protection” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection” and “Department of Energy and Environmental Protection”, respectively, effective July 1, 2011.
CT Gen Stat § 7-152d (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers|Section 7-152d - Civil penalty for illegal disposal of solid waste at municipal landfill.

 Notwithstanding the provisions of section 51-164p, any municipality may by ordinance establish a civil penalty for the illegal disposal of solid waste at a landfill operated by the municipality, provided the amount of such civil penalty shall be not more than one thousand dollars for the first violation, not more than two thousand dollars for the second violation and not more than three thousand dollars for any subsequent violation. Any person who is assessed a civil penalty pursuant to this section may appeal therefrom to the Superior Court in the manner provided in subsection (g) of section 7-152b.(P.A. 90-216.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-158 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers|Section 7-158 - Exemption.

 Section 7-158 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 621; 1961, P.A. 517, S. 88.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-159 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers|Section 7-159 - Validity of prior ordinances, bylaws and regulations.

 Any valid ordinances, bylaws or regulations adopted prior to October 1, 1957, under the provisions of the general statutes shall remain valid until altered or repealed under the provisions of this chapter. Nothing contained in this chapter shall affect the powers granted to any municipality to enact ordinances, regulations or bylaws under the provisions of any special act nor shall it affect any valid ordinance, regulation or bylaw enacted under such provisions before or after October 1, 1957.(1957, P.A. 13, S. 100.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-159a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers|Section 7-159a - Joint public hearing authorized on proposal requiring multiagency approval.

 Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, any special act or any municipal ordinance, the legislative body of any municipality may, by ordinance, establish procedures for the holding of one public hearing on any application for a proposal that requires approval by more than one municipal agency, body, commission or committee.(P.A. 90-286, S. 5, 9.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-159b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers|Section 7-159b - Preapplication review of use of property.

 Notwithstanding any other provision of the general statutes, prior to the submission of an application for use of property under chapters 124, 126, 440 and 541 or any other provision of the general statutes authorizing an authority, commission, department or agency of a municipality to issue a permit or approval for use of such property, such authority, commission, department or agency or authorized agent thereof may separately, jointly, or in any combination, conduct a preapplication review of a proposed project with the applicant at the applicant's request. Such preapplication review and any results or information obtained from it may not be appealed under any provision of the general statutes, and shall not be binding on the applicant or any authority, commission, department, agency or other official having jurisdiction to review the proposed project.(P.A. 03-184, S. 1.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-159c (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers|Section 7-159c - Reconstruction or repair of residence, building, structure or other improvement to real property damaged or destroyed by acts of nature.

 Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, any municipality may, by ordinance, provide that any person, firm or corporation that owns a residence, building, structure or other improvement to real property damaged or destroyed by acts of nature during the period beginning August 25, 2011, and ending September 14, 2011, shall be allowed to reconstruct or repair such residence, building, structure or improvement in accordance with any previously approved permit or other authorization for the construction or repair of such residence, building, structure or improvement to the dimensions and specifications for such residence, building, structure or improvement prior to said damage without seeking or obtaining additional approval from any municipal board or commission provided any such reconstructed or repaired residence, building, structure or other improvement complies with the state building, fire and health codes in effect as of October 27, 2011. Nothing in this section shall be construed to waive or eliminate the coastal site plan review requirements of chapter 444, except that any ordinance enacted pursuant to this section may waive the coastal site plan review requirement for individual single-family residential structures, as provided in subdivision (4) of subsection (b) of section 22a-109.(Oct. Sp. Sess. P.A. 11-1, S. 17.)History: Oct. Sp. Sess. P.A. 11-1 effective October 27, 2011.
CT Gen Stat § 7-163a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers|Section 7-163a - Municipal liability for ice and snow on public sidewalks.

 (a) Any town, city, borough, consolidated town and city or consolidated town and borough may, by ordinance, adopt the provisions of this section.(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 13a-149 or any other general statute or special act, such town, city, borough, consolidated town and city or consolidated town and borough shall not be liable to any person injured in person or property caused by the presence of ice or snow on a public sidewalk unless such municipality is the owner or person in possession and control of land abutting such sidewalk, other than land used as a highway or street, provided such municipality shall be liable for its affirmative acts with respect to such sidewalk.(c) (1) The owner or person in possession and control of land abutting a public sidewalk shall have the same duty of care with respect to the presence of ice or snow on such sidewalk toward the portion of the sidewalk abutting his property as the municipality had prior to the effective date of any ordinance adopted pursuant to the provisions of this section and shall be liable to persons injured in person or property where a breach of said duty is the proximate cause of said injury. (2) No action to recover damages for injury to the person or to property caused by the presence of ice or snow on a public sidewalk against a person who owns or is in possession and control of land abutting a public sidewalk shall be brought but within two years from the date when the injury is first sustained.(P.A. 81-340.)When state owns land abutting public sidewalk, ordinance adopted pursuant to section does not relieve municipality of liability for damages caused by ice or snow on sidewalk. 288 C. 1.Adoption of ordinance by city under statute relieves city of liability for injuries on sidewalk abutting state property, even though part of the state property is leased to private businesses. 99 CA 492.Cited. 44 CS 389.
CT Gen Stat § 7-163b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers|Section 7-163b - Annual municipal reports re telecommunications towers and antennas.

 Section 7-163b is repealed, effective July 1, 2014.(P.A. 04-226, S. 1; P.A. 14-19, S. 3.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-163c (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers|Section 7-163c - Municipal telecommunications plan.

 On or after January 1, 2007, each municipality may develop a municipal telecommunications coverage plan. Such plan shall consider the information provided to the municipality pursuant to subsection (a) of section 16-50ee, and may include the mapping of all existing telecommunications towers and antennas, radio frequency propagation modeling of existing coverage, hypothetical coverage from alternative sites and identification of sensitive areas for restrictive use. The plan may delineate one or more areas of the municipality within which applications for the siting of telecommunications towers that meet pre-established criteria may receive expedited consideration. Such plan shall be consistent with (1) 47 USC 332(c)(7), as amended, and any regulations adopted pursuant to said 47 USC 332(c)(7), (2) the Code of Federal Regulations Title 47, Part 22, as amended, (3) tower sharing provisions of section 16-50aa, and (4) the state-wide telecommunications coverage plan adopted by the Connecticut Siting Council pursuant to subsection (a) of section 16-50ee. At the request of a municipality, the Connecticut Siting Council shall provide technical assistance to the municipality in preparing a plan under this subsection.(P.A. 04-226, S. 3.)History: P.A. 04-226 effective June 8, 2004.
CT Gen Stat § 7-163d (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers|Section 7-163d - Establishment of municipal authority to develop or redevelop single parcel.

 On or before December 31, 2005, any municipality that (1) has a population between twenty-five and thirty thousand persons as enumerated in the 2000 federal decennial census, (2) occupies a total area of not less than fifty-nine square miles, and (3) is the site of a correctional institution operated by the Department of Correction, may, by ordinance adopted by its legislative body, establish an authority to oversee development or redevelopment of a specified area or parcel of land that is located in and owned by the municipality. Such ordinance shall prescribe (A) the boundaries of the area or parcel of land within the jurisdiction of the authority; (B) the method of appointment and terms of office of members of the authority; (C) the powers and duties of the authority which shall include implementation of a master plan of development, hiring employees, building, maintaining and operating improvements to the land in accordance with such master plan and negotiating and entering into leases for any part of the land and improvements thereon, provided (i) any lease shall be subject to the approval of the executive authority of the municipality, and (ii) no master plan of development may be implemented by the authority unless there has been opportunity for public comment on such master plan of development at a properly-noticed public hearing in the municipality; (D) a schedule for reporting progress on the implementation of the master plan of development to the legislative body and other appropriate municipal officials or agencies; and (E) any other provisions deemed necessary by the legislative body.(P.A. 05-33, S. 1.)History: P.A. 05-33 effective July 1, 2005.
CT Gen Stat § 7-163e (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers|Section 7-163e - Public hearing on the sale, lease or transfer of real property owned by a municipality.

 (a) The legislative body of a municipality, or in any municipality where the legislative body is a town meeting or representative town meeting, the board of selectmen, shall conduct a public hearing on the sale, lease or transfer of real property owned by the municipality prior to final approval of such sale, lease or transfer. Notice of the hearing shall be published in a newspaper having a general circulation in such municipality where the real property that is the subject of the hearing is located at least twice, at intervals of not less than two days, the first not more than fifteen days or less than ten days and the last not less than two days before the date set for the hearing. The municipality shall also post a sign conspicuously on the real property that is the subject of the public hearing.(b) The provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall not apply to (1) sales of real property, except parkland, open space or playgrounds, if the fair market value of such property does not exceed ten thousand dollars, (2) renewals of leases where there is no change in use of the real property, and (3) the sale, lease or transfer of real property acquired by the municipality by foreclosure.(P.A. 07-218, S. 1; 07-251, S. 1; P.A. 10-32, S. 16.)History: P.A. 07-251 added Subsec. (b)(3) re exception for property acquired by foreclosure; P.A. 10-32 made technical changes, effective May 10, 2010.
CT Gen Stat § 7-169a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers|Section 7-169a - Registration with municipal official. Definitions.

 Every organization desiring to apply for a permit under subsection (d) of section 7-169 to operate bingo games shall, before making any such application, register with the municipal official on forms furnished by the municipal official and secure an identification number. All applications for permits, amendment of permits, reports and any other papers relating to games of bingo shall bear the identification number of the organization involved. Neither registration nor the assignment of an identification number, which may be revoked for cause, shall constitute, or be any evidence of, the eligibility of any organization to receive a permit for or to conduct any bingo game.(February, 1965, P.A. 451, S. 1; P.A. 77-614, S. 486, 610; P.A. 86-419, S. 5, 25; P.A. 11-51, S. 208; P.A. 17-231, S. 2.)History: P.A. 77-614 substituted commissioner of public safety for commissioner of state police, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 86-419 substituted executive director of division of special revenue for commissioner of public safety, effective October 1, 1987; P.A. 11-51 substituted “Commissioner of Consumer Protection” for “executive director of the Division of Special Revenue” and made a technical change, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 17-231 replaced reference to Sec. 7-169(e) with reference to Sec. 7-169(d), replaced references to Commissioner of Consumer Protection with references to municipal official and made a technical change, effective January 1, 2018.
CT Gen Stat § 7-169b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers|Section 7-169b - Report re receipts, expenses and profit.

 Section 7-169b is repealed.(February, 1965, P.A. 451, S. 7; P.A. 77-614, S. 486, 610; P.A. 78-280, S. 12, 127; P.A. 81-276, S. 1; P.A. 86-419, S. 6, 25; P.A. 88-363, S. 6, 7.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-169c (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers|Section 7-169c - Recreational bingo for senior citizens. Definitions. Registrations. Records.

 (a) For the purposes of this section, “bingo game” and “municipal official” have the same meaning as provided in subsection (a) of section 7-169.(b) Any organization whose membership consists of persons sixty years of age or over may operate and conduct bingo games on and after January 1, 1989, for the amusement and recreation of its members without a permit as required by section 7-169, provided (1) such organization has registered with and applied for and received an identification number from the municipal official, (2) such organization does not charge an admission fee in excess of one dollar, (3) the prize or prizes awarded do not exceed fifty dollars in value, either in cash or merchandise, and (4) only active members of such organization assist in the operation of the bingo games without compensation. The municipal official may revoke any such registration for cause.(c) Each such organization which operates bingo games shall keep accurate records of receipts and disbursements, which shall be available for inspection by the municipal official.(d) Each such organization shall be exempt from the provisions of sections 7-169 and 7-169a.(P.A. 88-363, S. 5, 7; P.A. 05-11, S. 1; P.A. 11-51, S. 209; P.A. 13-299, S. 53; P.A. 17-231, S.3.)History: P.A. 05-11 amended Subsec. (a)(3) to increase the maximum value of prizes awarded from $5 to $20, effective May 4, 2005; P.A. 11-51 substituted “Commissioner of Consumer Protection” and “commissioner” for “executive director of the Division of Special Revenue” and “executive director”, and increased prize limit from $20 to $50, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 13-299 amended Subsec. (d) to make technical changes and delete reference to advice and consent of Gaming Policy Board, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 17-231 added new Subsec. (a) re definitions of “bingo game” and “municipal official”, redesignated existing Subsecs. (a) to (c) as Subsecs. (b) to (d), amended redesignated Subsecs. (b) and (c) to replace references to Commissioner of Consumer Protection with references to municipal official, deleted former Subsec. (d) re commissioner to adopt regulations, effective January 1, 2018.