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2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers › Section 7-148f. - Penalty for violations.

Any person who violates any order of rent reduction or rent suspension by demanding, accepting or receiving an amount in excess thereof while such order remains in effect, and no appeal pursuant to section 7-148e is pending, or violates any other provision of sections 7-148b to 7-148e, inclusive, and section 47a-20, or who refuses to obey any subpoena, order or decision of a commission pursuant thereto, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense. If such offense continues for more than five days, it shall constitute a new offense for each day it continues to exist thereafter.
(1972, P.A. 160, S. 3; P.A. 74-183, S. 176, 291; P.A. 76-436, S. 156, 681.)
History: P.A. 74-183 substituted court of common pleas for circuit court; P.A. 76-436 deleted provision giving jurisdiction to court of common pleas, effective July 1, 1978.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers › Section 7-148g. - Fair housing commission; creation and powers.

Any town, city or borough may, through its legislative body, create a fair housing commission to make studies and receive complaints relative to discrimination in dwellings within its jurisdiction, which term shall include mobile manufactured homes and mobile manufactured home park lots, in order to control and eliminate discrimination in such dwellings, and to enforce fair housing ordinances adopted pursuant to section 7-148 or section 7-194. The commission may be empowered to retain legal counsel to advise it.
(P.A. 79-531, S. 3; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-3, S. 1; P.A. 92-257, S. 6.)
History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-3 changed terms “mobile home” and “mobile homes” to “mobile manufactured home” and “mobile manufactured homes”; P.A. 92-257 substituted “dwellings” for “housing accommodations”.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers › Section 7-148gg. - Notice to lienholder of notice or order to remedy health, housing or safety code violation.

Each municipality, in addition to any other notice required under the general statutes or any municipal health, housing or safety codes or regulations, shall simultaneously send to each lien holder of real estate a copy of any notice or order by such municipality to the owner of such real estate to demolish, remove or otherwise dispose of the real estate or to make it safe and sanitary issued under any provision of the general statutes or any municipal building, health or safety codes or regulations as well as a copy of any notice sent to the owner of such real estate or recorded on the land record, with respect to any costs or expenses incurred by the municipality to demolish, remove or otherwise dispose of the real estate or to make it safe and sanitary. The municipality shall make reasonable efforts to send such copy by first class mail to the lienholder's current or last-known address.
(P.A. 06-185, S. 4.)
See Sec. 12-169b re addition of municipal expenses to property taxes for real estate violating health, safety or building codes.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers › Section 7-148h. - Ethics commission; establishment and powers. Interest in conflict with discharge of duties.

(a) Any town, city, district, as defined in section 7-324, or borough may, by charter provision or ordinance, establish a board, commission, council, committee or other agency to investigate allegations of unethical conduct, corrupting influence or illegal activities levied against any official, officer or employee of such town, city, district or borough. The provisions of subsections (a) to (e), inclusive, of section 1-82a shall apply to allegations before any such agency of such conduct, influence or activities, to an investigation of such allegations conducted prior to a probable cause finding, and to a finding of probable cause or no probable cause. Any board, commission, council, committee or other agency established pursuant to this section may issue subpoenas or subpoenas duces tecum, enforceable upon application to the Superior Court, to compel the attendance of persons at hearings and the production of books, documents, records and papers.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of any special act, municipal charter or ordinance to the contrary, an elected official of any town, city, district or borough that has established a board, commission, council, committee or other agency under subsection (a) of this section, has an interest that is in substantial conflict with the proper discharge of the official's duties or employment in the public interest and of the official's responsibilities as prescribed by the laws of this state, if the official has reason to believe or expect that the official, the official's spouse or dependent child, or a business with which he is associated, as defined in section 1-79, will derive a direct monetary gain or suffer a direct monetary loss, as the case may be, by reason of the official's official activity. Any such elected official does not have an interest that is in substantial conflict with the proper discharge of the official's duties in the public interest and of the official's responsibilities as prescribed by the laws of this state, if any benefit or detriment accrues to the official, the official's spouse or dependent child, or a business with which he, his spouse or such dependent child is associated as a member of a profession, occupation or group to no greater extent than to any other member of such profession, occupation or group. Any such elected official who has a substantial conflict may not take official action on the matter.
(P.A. 79-618, S. 3; P.A. 89-229, S. 2, 4; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-1, S. 19; P.A. 00-92, S. 13.)
History: P.A. 89-229 specified the circumstances under which the provisions of Subsecs. (a) to (e), inclusive, of Sec. 1-82a are to apply; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-1 added Subsec. (b) re conflicts of interest; P.A. 00-92 applied provisions to a “district, as defined in section 7-324”, substituted “official” for “municipal official”, substituted “that” for “which”, and made technical changes for the purpose of gender neutrality.
Cited. 180 C. 243.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers › Section 7-148hh. - Definitions.

As used in sections 7-148ff, 7-148ii, 7-152c, 19a-206, 47a-52, 47a-53, 47a-58 and 49-73b:
(1) “Registrant” means the owner of residential property who is required to register such property pursuant to section 7-148ii.
(2) “Residential property” means a building containing one or more dwelling units and includes a commercial building containing one or more dwelling units.
(3) “Dwelling unit” means any house or building, or portion thereof, which is occupied, designed to be occupied, or rented, leased or hired out to be occupied, exclusively as a home or residence of one or more persons.
(4) “Mortgage” means a mortgage on residential real property that is held by a person other than a natural person.
(5) “Person” means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity.
(P.A. 09-144, S. 1; P.A. 11-201, S. 13.)
History: P.A. 11-201 redefined “registrant” in Subdiv. (1) and “residential property” in Subdiv. (2), replaced definition of “vacant” in Subdiv. (3) with definition of “dwelling unit”, replaced definition of “MERS” in Subdiv. (4) with definition of “mortgage” and added Subdiv. (5) defining “person”.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers › Section 7-148i. - Discriminatory practices defined. Boards authorized.

Any town, city or borough, by charter or ordinance, may adopt a code of prohibited discriminatory practices and may establish or designate a board, commission, council, committee or other agency to investigate any allegation of discriminatory practice. For the purposes of sections 7-148i to 7-148n, inclusive, and subparagraph (B) of subdivision (9) of subsection (c) of section 7-148, “discriminatory practice” means a violation of section 46a-58, 46a-59, 46a-60, 46a-64, 46a-64c or 46a-66.
(P.A. 80-403, S. 1, 10; P.A. 81-472, S. 4, 159; P.A. 86-403, S. 11, 132; P.A. 92-257, S. 7.)
History: P.A. 81-472 made technical changes; P.A. 86-403 made technical changes; P.A. 92-257 added reference to Sec. 46a-64c.
Cited. 183 C. 495.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers › Section 7-148j. - Powers of boards.

Any board, commission, council, committee or other agency established or designated pursuant to sections 7-148i to 7-148n, inclusive, and subparagraph (B) of subdivision (9) of subsection (c) of section 7-148, may be given the following powers: (1) The power to issue subpoenas or subpoenas duces tecum, enforceable upon application to the Superior Court, to compel the attendance of persons at hearings either in person or by means of electronic equipment and the production of books, documents, records and papers; (2) the power to issue written interrogatories and require written answers under oath thereto, enforceable upon application to the Superior Court; (3) the power to hold hearings relating to any allegation of discriminatory practice which it has found reasonable cause to believe has occurred and to issue any appropriate orders including those authorized by section 46a-86; and (4) the power to petition the Superior Court for enforcement of any order issued by it upon a finding that a violation of the local code of prohibited discriminatory practices has occurred, including the power to petition the Superior Court for temporary injunctive relief upon a finding that irreparable harm to the complainant will otherwise occur or for any other relief authorized by sections 46a-89 and 46a-90a.
(P.A. 80-403, S. 2, 10; P.A. 86-403, S. 12, 132; P.A. 94-163; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2, S. 158.)
History: P.A. 86-403 made technical changes; P.A. 94-163 authorized boards to issue orders under Sec. 46a-86 and to petition superior court for relief under Secs. 46a-89 and 46a-90a; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2 specified that attendance of persons at hearings may be in person or by means of electronic equipment.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers › Section 7-148jj. - Ordinances regulating maintenance of foreclosed properties.

(a) No municipality shall adopt a property maintenance ordinance or regulation that applies only to the property maintenance activities of a person who holds a mortgage on or title to real property located within this state and obtained by foreclosure, provided nothing in this section shall preclude a municipality from enacting or enforcing an ordinance or regulation that applies generally to all owners of real property within such municipality, without regard to how the owner acquired title. For purposes of this section, property maintenance activities include, but are not limited to, activities related to the repair, maintenance, restoration, alteration, removal or demolition of any part of real property.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, any municipal property maintenance ordinance or regulation that applies only to the property maintenance activities of a person who holds title or a mortgage to real property located within this state and obtained by foreclosure shall continue to be effective provided such ordinance or regulation was adopted on or before October 1, 2009.
(c) Nothing in this section shall prohibit or limit a municipality from adopting or enforcing an ordinance or regulation relating to the prevention of housing blight pursuant to subparagraph (H)(xv) of subdivision (7) of subsection (c) of section 7-148, the maintenance of safe and sanitary housing as provided in subparagraph (A) of subdivision (7) of subsection (c) of section 7-148, or the abatement of nuisances as provided in subparagraph (E) of subdivision (7) of subsection (c) of section 7-148.
(P.A. 09-144, S. 10; P.A. 14-122, S. 9.)
History: P.A. 14-122 made a technical change in Subsec. (b).
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers › Section 7-148k. - Complaints. Hearings.

Any complaint filed pursuant to sections 7-148i to 7-148n, inclusive, and subparagraph (B) of subdivision (9) of subsection (c) of section 7-148 shall be made under oath. No finding of a violation of a local code of prohibited discriminatory practices shall be made except after a hearing conducted in person or by means of electronic equipment. The respondent at any such hearing shall be given reasonable advance written notice of the hearing, shall be entitled to be represented by counsel, and shall be permitted to testify and present and cross-examine witnesses. The decision resulting from the hearing shall be in writing and shall include written findings of the facts upon which the decision is based.
(P.A. 80-403, S. 3, 10; P.A. 86-403, S. 13, 132; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2, S. 159.)
History: P.A. 86-403 made technical changes; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2 added requirement that hearing be conducted in person or by means of electronic equipment.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers › Section 7-148l. - Appeals.

Any person aggrieved by any order of the board, commission, council, committee or other agency established or designated pursuant to sections 7-148i to 7-148n, inclusive, and subparagraph (B) of subdivision (9) of subsection (c) of section 7-148 may appeal to the State Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities. Any such appeal shall be filed within thirty days of the mailing of the written decision.
(P.A. 80-403, S. 4, 10; P.A. 86-403, S. 14, 132.)
History: P.A. 86-403 made technical changes.
Cited. 183 C. 495.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers › Section 7-148ll. - Determination re regional economic development agreement.

The municipalities that are parties to a regional economic development agreement entered into and approved under the provisions of section 7-148kk shall send a copy of such agreement to the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management. Not more than thirty days after receipt of such agreement the secretary shall make a written determination as to whether or not the agreement is consistent with the requirements of said section 7-148kk. The secretary shall send a copy of the determination to each municipality that is a party to the agreement and the Commissioner of Revenue Services.
(P.A. 09-231, S. 2.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers › Section 7-148m. - Actions of State Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities to supersede local action.

Any action by the State Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities which involves the same parties and subject matter as an action filed with a local commission on equal rights and opportunities shall supersede the action brought with the local commission, except that the State Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities may admit into evidence the results of any investigation of a complaint filed with the local commission, or the decision entered on such a complaint by the local commission, and accord to such investigation or such decision the weight that may be appropriate under the facts and circumstances of the case.
(P.A. 80-403, S. 5, 10.)
Cited. 183 C. 495.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers › Section 7-148mm. - Interlocal agreement re dispatch services. Governing board.

Any municipalities that enter into an interlocal agreement pursuant to sections 7-339a to 7-339l, inclusive, to consolidate dispatch services may establish a governing board. Each municipality that is a party to such an agreement shall be represented on such governing board. Representatives of the municipality shall be appointed to such governing board by the legislative body of such municipality or in such other manner as shall be prescribed by such legislative body. The qualifications, terms of office and compensation, if any, of such representatives shall be prescribed by such legislative body, subject to any applicable provisions of the interlocal agreement. The general powers and authority of such governing board shall be as set forth in the provisions of the interlocal agreement. Nothing in this section shall be construed to grant such governing board any powers not specifically provided to municipalities regarding dispatch services by any provision of the general statutes or by any charter or special act. For purposes of this section, “municipality” has the same meaning as provided in subsection (d) of section 7-187 and “interlocal agreement” and “legislative body” have the same meanings as provided in section 7-339a.
(P.A. 14-179, S. 1.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers › Section 7-148n. - Local boards may assume powers to investigate discriminatory practices.

Any board, commission, council, committee or other agency which has been established or designated to investigate allegations of discriminatory practices by the charter or an ordinance of any town, city or borough prior to May 23, 1980, may assume the powers granted to such agencies under sections 7-148i to 7-148n, inclusive, and subparagraph (B) of subdivision (9) of subsection (c) of section 7-148 if the charter or ordinance creating or designating such agency is not in conflict with the provisions of sections 7-148i to 7-148n, inclusive, and subparagraph (B) of subdivision (9) of subsection (c) of section 7-148.
(P.A. 80-403, S. 6, 10; P.A. 86-403, S. 15, 132.)
History: P.A. 86-403 made technical changes.
Cited. 183 C. 495.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers › Section 7-148nn. - Municipal partnerships re sharing of services of resident state trooper or other law enforcement personnel.

Notwithstanding the provisions of the general statutes or any municipal charter or special act to the contrary, any municipality may enter into a partnership with one or more municipalities to share the services of one or more resident state troopers or other law enforcement personnel.
(P.A. 16-144, S. 3.)
History: P.A. 16-144 effective June 9, 2016.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers › Section 7-148o. - Wilful violation of ordinances concerning prevention and remediation of housing blight. Penalties.

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, any person who, after written notice and a reasonable opportunity to remediate blighted conditions, wilfully violates any regulation adopted pursuant to subparagraph (H)(xv) of subdivision (7) of subsection (c) of section 7-148 concerning the prevention and remediation of housing blight shall be fined by the state not more than two hundred fifty dollars for each day for which it can be shown, based on actual inspection of the property on each such day, that the blighted conditions continued to exist after written notice to the owner or occupant as provided in this section, and the expiration of a reasonable opportunity to remediate.
(b) Any person who is a new owner or new occupant shall, upon request, be granted a thirty-day extension of the notice and opportunity to remediate provided pursuant to subsection (a) of this section. For the purposes of this section, “new owner” means any person or entity who has taken title to a property within thirty days of the notice, and “new occupant” means any person who has taken occupancy of a property within thirty days of the notice.
(P.A. 12-146, S. 3.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers › Section 7-148oo. - Municipal option for temporary deferment of payment on certain delinquent property taxes and utility rates, charges and assessments.

Notwithstanding any provision of chapter 105 or 204 or any special act, charter, home rule ordinance, local ordinance or other local law, for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2022, and June 30, 2023, any municipality or district, as defined in section 7-324, may provide, upon approval by it legislative body or board of directors, as applicable, a program in which taxpayers, businesses, nonprofits and residents may defer payment for ninety days on any (1) tax on real property, personal property or motor vehicle, or (2) municipal water, sewer or electric rate, charge or assessment, from the time that such tax, rate, charge or assessment becomes due and payable.
(P.A. 21-73, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 21-73 effective July 1, 2021.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers › Section 7-148pp. - Municipal option for temporary lower interest rate on certain delinquent property taxes and utility rates, charges and assessments.

(a)(1) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section and notwithstanding any provision of chapter 105 or 204 or any special act, charter, home rule ordinance, local ordinance or other local law, for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2022, and June 30, 2023, any municipality or district, as defined in section 7-324, may provide, upon approval by its legislative body or board of directors, as applicable, a program in which the delinquent portion of the principal of any (A) tax on real property, personal property or motor vehicle, or (B) municipal water, sewer or electric rate, charge or assessment, shall be subject to interest at a rate of three per cent per annum for ninety days from the time that such tax, rate, charge or assessment becomes due and payable until such tax, rate, charge or assessment is paid.
(2) At the conclusion of the ninety days during which the delinquent portion of any tax, rate, charge or assessment described in subsection (a) of this section shall be subject to interest at a rate of three per cent per annum, pursuant to said subsection, such delinquent portion, if any, shall be subject to interest and penalties as otherwise provided by law.
(b) The provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall not apply in the case of any tax, rate, charge or assessment described in said subsection that is subject to interest and penalties at less than three per cent per annum.
(P.A. 21-73, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 21-73 effective July 1, 2021.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers › Section 7-148q. - Establishment of corporation to manufacture, distribute, purchase or sell compressed natural gas.

(a) Any municipality that maintains an electric or gas utility may establish a corporation under chapter 601 for the purposes of engaging in the manufacture, distribution, purchase or sale, or any combination thereof, of compressed natural gas, for the sole purpose of providing compressed natural gas to vehicles or construction equipment, within or outside of its franchise area. The costs and expenses associated with such sales of compressed natural gas shall be exclusive of the costs and expenses associated with the establishment of rates and charges for gas and electricity pursuant to section 7-222.
(b) Any such municipality may exercise the authority provided for in subsection (a) of this section notwithstanding the provisions of any special act, municipal charter or home rule ordinance, upon approval of its chief executive officer and by adoption of an ordinance approved by a two-thirds vote of its city council.
(P.A. 99-286, S. 17, 19.)
History: P.A. 99-286 effective July 19, 1999.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers › Section 7-148r. - Municipal fee for access to computer-assisted mass appraisal system database.

Any municipality may by ordinance impose a reasonable fee for public access to its computer database developed pursuant to section 12-62f for the purpose of revaluation.
(P.A. 95-283, S. 5, 68.)
History: P.A. 95-283, S. 5 effective July 6, 1995.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers › Section 7-148t. - Conflict of interest for members of land use and purchasing commissions and boards.

Notwithstanding the provisions of any special act or municipal charter and in addition to any provisions of sections 8-11, 8-21 and subsection (c) of section 22a-42, no member of any municipal commission or board having any jurisdiction or exercising any power over any municipal land use or purchasing decisions shall appear for or represent any person, firm, corporation or other entity in any matter pending before the commission or board. No member of any such commission or board shall participate in any hearing or decision of the board or commission of which he is a member upon any matter in which he knowingly has a pecuniary interest. In the event of such disqualification, such fact shall be entered on the records of the commission or board and any municipality may, by ordinance, provide that an elector may be chosen, in a manner specified in the ordinance, to act as a member of such commission or board in the hearing and determination of such matter, except that replacement shall be made first from alternate members of such commission or board designated pursuant to the general statutes or any special act or municipal charter or ordinance, if any.
(P.A. 83-540.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers › Section 7-148u. - Municipal set-aside program for small contractors and minority business enterprises.

(a) As used in this section:
(1) “Small contractor” means any contractor, subcontractor, manufacturer or service company (A) which has been doing business and has maintained its principal place of business in the state for a period of at least one year prior to the date of application for certification under this section, (B) which had gross revenues not exceeding ten million dollars in the most recently completed fiscal year prior to such application, and (C) at least fifty-one per cent of the ownership of which is held by a person or persons who are active in the daily affairs of the business and have the power to direct the management and policies of the business.
(2) “Minority business enterprise” means any small contractor (A) fifty-one per cent or more of the capital stock, if any, or assets of which are owned by a person or persons (i) who are active in the daily affairs of the enterprise, (ii) who have the power to direct the management and policies of the enterprise, and (iii) who are members of a minority, as such term is defined in subsection (a) of section 32-9n, or (B) who is an individual with a disability.
(3) “Individual with a disability” means an individual (A) having a physical impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of the individual, or (B) having a record of such an impairment.
(b) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes or of any special act or any municipal charter or home rule ordinance, a municipality may, by ordinance, set aside in each fiscal year, for award to small contractors, on the basis of a competitive bidding procedure, municipal contracts or portions of municipal contracts for the construction, reconstruction or rehabilitation of public buildings, the construction and maintenance of highways and the purchase of goods and services. The total value of such contracts or portions thereof to be set aside shall be not more than twenty-five per cent of the average of the total value of all such contracts let by the municipality for each of the previous three fiscal years, provided a contract that may not be set aside due to a conflict with a federal law or regulation shall not be included in the calculation of such average. Contracts or portions thereof having a value of not less than twenty-five per cent of the total value of all contracts or portions thereof to be set aside shall be reserved for awards to minority business enterprises.
(P.A. 83-390, S. 3; P.A. 92-189, S. 1; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-4, S. 68.)
History: P.A. 92-189 amended Subsec. (a) by setting forth definitions of “small contractor” and “minority business enterprise” instead of construing the terms as defined in Sec. 32-9e and by adding definition of “individual with a disability”; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-4 amended Subsec. (a)(1)(B) to change $3,000,000 to $10,000,000 and made technical changes in Subsec. (a), effective July 1, 2007.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers › Section 7-148v. - Requirements for competitive bidding. Purchase from person having contract to sell goods or services.

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any municipal charter or any special act to the contrary, any municipality may, by ordinance, establish requirements for competitive bidding for the award of any contract or the purchase of any real or personal property by the municipality. Such ordinance may provide that, except as otherwise required by any provision of the general statutes, sealed bidding shall not be required for contracts or purchases having a value less than or equal to an amount established in the ordinance, which amount shall not be greater than twenty-five thousand dollars. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to invalidate any ordinance enacted by a municipality prior to October 1, 1989. Nothing in this section and no ordinance adopted pursuant to this section shall be construed to limit the ability of a municipality to enter into a contract pursuant to section 4a-53a.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of the general statutes or any municipal charter, special act or ordinance, any municipality may purchase equipment, supplies, materials or services from a person who has a contract to sell such goods or services to other state governments, political subdivisions of the state, nonprofit organizations or public purchasing consortia available through a regional educational service center or regional council of governments, in accordance with the provisions of such contract.
(P.A. 89-136; Nov. 24 Sp. Sess. P.A. 08-2, S. 2; P.A. 13-71, S. 1; P.A. 16-144, S. 1.)
History: Nov. 24 Sp. Sess. P.A. 08-2 added provision re ability of municipality to enter into contract pursuant to Sec. 4a-53a, effective November 25, 2008; P.A. 13-71 changed exception to sealed bidding limit from $7,500 to $25,000; P.A. 16-144 designated existing provisions re requirements for competitive bidding as Subsec. (a) and added Subsec. (b) re municipal purchase of equipment, supplies, materials or services from certain persons, effective June 9, 2016.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers › Section 7-148x. - Electronic equipment defined.

For the purposes of sections 7-148j, 7-148k, 7-148bb, 7-148ii and 7-152b, “electronic equipment” means any technology that facilitates real-time communication between two or more individuals, including, but not limited to, telephonic, video and other conferencing platforms.
(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2, S. 157.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers › Section 7-149. - Regulation of waste disposal in highways.

Section 7-149 is repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 625; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 9; 1959, P.A. 449, S. 1; P.A. 82-327, S. 12.)
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers › Section 7-149c. - Municipal regulation of operation and use of external speakers attached to a motor vehicle. Penalties. Seizure and forfeiture.

(a) Any municipality that adopts an ordinance pursuant to section 7-148 to regulate the operation and use of external speakers attached to a motor vehicle, as defined in section 14-1 in order to preserve the public peace and good order and prevent disturbing noises, may (1) prescribe a penalty for a violation of such ordinance in an amount not to exceed one thousand dollars for a first violation, in an amount not to exceed one thousand five hundred dollars for a second violation, and in an amount not to exceed two thousand dollars for a third or subsequent violation, and (2) provide for the seizure and forfeiture to the municipality of such external speakers for a violation of such ordinance.
(b) No external speaker shall be forfeited under an ordinance adopted pursuant to this section to the extent of the interest of an owner by reason of any act or omission committed by another person if such owner did not know and could not have reasonably known that such external speaker was being used or was intended to be used in violation of a municipal ordinance.
(c) Any external speaker ordered forfeited pursuant to such an ordinance shall be sold at a public auction conducted by the municipality. The proceeds of such sale shall be paid to the treasurer of the municipality, who shall deposit such proceeds into the general fund of the municipality.
(P.A. 22-40, S. 25.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers › Section 7-150 and 7-151. - Regulation of plumbing and drainage. Regulation of operation of motor boats.

Sections 7-150 and 7-151 are repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 634, 707; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 12, 24; 1961, P.A. 520, S. 20; P.A. 82-327, S. 12.)
2023 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.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers › Section 7-151c. - Lake authority retention fees for boating law fines. Schedule.

The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall establish a schedule of retention fees for lake authorities that provides for the amount of any fine issued by such authority, to any person who violates the boating laws of the state upon such lake, that such authority may retain.
(P.A. 22-144, S. 3.)
History: P.A. 22-144 effective July 1, 2022.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers › Section 7-152 and 7-152a. - Keeping of snakes. Municipal garden program; ordinance establishing; indemnification of municipality.

Sections 7-152 and 7-152a are repealed.
(1951, S. 278d; P.A. 75-497, S. 3, 4; P.A. 82-327, S. 12.)
2023 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.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers › Section 7-152e. - Ordinances re unregistered motor vehicles.

(a) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes or special act, municipal charter or ordinance, any municipality may, by ordinance adopted by its legislative body, establish a fine to be imposed against any owner of a motor vehicle that is subject to property tax in the municipality pursuant to subsection (g) of section 12-71b who fails to register such motor vehicle with the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, provided (1) such motor vehicle is eligible for registration and required to be registered under the provisions of chapter 246, (2) such fine shall not be more than two hundred fifty dollars, (3) any penalty for the failure to pay such fine by a date prescribed by the municipality shall not be more than twenty-five per cent of such fine, and (4) such fine shall be suspended for a first time violator who presents proof of registration for such motor vehicle subsequent to the violation but prior to the imposition of a fine.
(b) Any police officer or other person authorized by the chief executive officer of the municipality may issue a citation to any person who fails to register such motor vehicle. Any municipality that adopts an ordinance pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall also adopt a citation hearing procedure pursuant to section 7-152c by which procedure such fine shall be imposed.
(P.A. 21-106, S. 32.)
History: P.A. 21-106 effective July 1, 2021.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers › Section 7-152f. - Ordinances re illegal gifts, sales and transfers of cannabis.

Any municipality may establish, by ordinance, a fine for violations of section 21a-421hhh, provided the amount of any such fine shall not be greater than one thousand dollars per violation. Any police officer or other person authorized by the chief executive officer of the municipality may issue a citation to any person who commits such a violation. Any municipality that adopts an ordinance pursuant to this section shall also adopt a citation hearing procedure pursuant to section 7-152c. Any fine collected by a municipality pursuant to this section shall be deposited into the general fund of the municipality or in any special fund designated by the municipality.
(P.A. 22-103, S. 3.)
History: P.A. 22-103 effective May 24, 2022.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 98 - Municipal Powers › Section 7-153 to 7-156. - Regulation of sewerage facilities. Towns may make ordinances concerning matters not covered by statute and fix penalty. Loitering of children; public markets.

Sections 7-153 to 7-156, inclusive, are repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 623, 636, 643, 4147; 1953, S. 2130d; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 13, 88; 1963, P.A. 60; 1969, P.A. 820, S. 10; P.A. 82-327, S. 12.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)