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2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 5 - State Employees › Chapter 67 - State Personnel Act › Section 5-254. - Holidays.

(a) Each full-time permanent employee in the state service shall be granted time off with pay for any legal holiday. A general worker employed in a position by the Department of Developmental Services as a self-advocate, not to exceed eleven such general workers, shall be granted time off with pay for any legal holiday that falls on a day that the general worker is regularly scheduled to work and provided the pay shall be for the number of hours the general worker would have been scheduled to work. If a legal holiday falls on a Saturday, employees shall be granted equivalent time off on the Friday immediately preceding such Saturday or given another day off in lieu thereof. The Commissioner of Administrative Services may issue regulations governing the granting of holiday time to other employees in the state service, which regulations shall be approved by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management.
(b) Any employee in the state service compensated on an hourly or per diem basis shall be entitled to time off with pay commensurate with any time granted by order of the Governor to salaried employees with pay.
(c) No state employee whose duties are not directly concerned with the business of the General Assembly shall be required to work any legal holiday solely by reason of the convening of the General Assembly on such day.
(1967, P.A. 657, S. 60; P.A. 77-614, S. 117, 610; P.A. 12-197, S. 52.)
History: P.A. 77-614 replaced personnel policy board with commissioner of administrative services and required that regulations be approved by secretary of the office of policy and management; P.A. 12-197 amended Subsec. (a) by adding provision re general workers employed by Department of Developmental Services, effective June 15, 2012.
See Sec. 1-4 re designated legal holidays.
Subsec. (a):
Legislature's use of terms “day” and “holiday” reflects its intent that employees shall be compensated for leave commensurate with their scheduled hours during the calendar day. 267 C. 255.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 5 - State Employees › Chapter 67 - State Personnel Act › Section 5-257a. - Continuation of group life insurance for certain teachers at E. O. Smith School.

Notwithstanding the provisions of any general statute, charter or special act to the contrary, service by teachers who were employed by The University of Connecticut to teach at the E. O. Smith School on the date of the conveyance of the E. O. Smith School pursuant to section 2 of special act 84-42 and who are subsequently employed to teach at the E. O. Smith School on or before September 1, 1987, by the board of education for a regional school district consisting of the towns of Mansfield and Ashford shall be deemed to be state service for purposes of section 5-257. Eligibility for benefits pursuant to this section shall be treated in accordance with the provisions of said section 5-257. The state contribution for such benefits for such teachers shall continue in accordance with the provisions of said section 5-257.
(P.A. 87-484, S. 8, 10.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 5 - State Employees › Chapter 67 - State Personnel Act › Section 5-258. - Group Insurance Commission.

Section 5-258 is repealed.
(1967, P.A. 657, S. 65; P.A. 73-677, S. 9; P.A. 75-519, S. 6, 12; P.A. 77-614, S. 19, 66, 163, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 8, 348; P.A. 92-254, S. 5, 6.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 5 - State Employees › Chapter 67 - State Personnel Act › Section 5-259a. - Competitive selection.

Employee health and life insurance shall be subject to a competitive selection process. The process shall be in accordance with the provisions of the collectively bargained pension agreement approved by the General Assembly on June 30, 1982.
(P.A. 83-533, S. 42, 54.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 5 - State Employees › Chapter 67 - State Personnel Act › Section 5-259b. - Continuation of health insurance for former members of General Assembly.

Notwithstanding the provisions of section 5-259, any member of the General Assembly, upon termination of his service with the General Assembly, may elect to continue participation in any group hospitalization and medical and surgical insurance plan in which he participated as a member at a premium equal to the group rate at which the State Comptroller procures such insurance coverage.
(P.A. 84-114, S. 1.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 5 - State Employees › Chapter 67 - State Personnel Act › Section 5-259c. - Health insurance for employees of state system of public higher education.

Any part-time professional employee of the state system of public higher education may elect to participate in the group hospitalization and medical and surgical insurance plan established pursuant to subsection (a) of section 5-259. Each employee who elects such coverage shall pay the premium for the form of coverage elected under such plan.
(P.A. 88-143.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 5 - State Employees › Chapter 67 - State Personnel Act › Section 5-259e. - Review of prescription claims data to increase utilization of generic prescriptions.

Members who represent the state on the Health Care Cost Containment Committee, defined in section 3-123aaa, in consultation with the Comptroller, shall propose that the committee review prescription claims data for the state employee and retiree plans established in accordance with section 5-259 to increase the utilization of generic prescriptions in accordance with the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition agreements.
(Dec. Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1, S. 46.)
History: Dec. Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1 effective December 21, 2012.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 5 - State Employees › Chapter 67 - State Personnel Act › Section 5-259f. - Establishment of requirements for health benefit cost sharing for certain nonrepresented officers and employees.

Notwithstanding any provision of any general statute, public act or special act, the Commissioner of Administrative Services and the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management may establish health benefit premium cost sharing requirements for all nonrepresented classified and unclassified officers and employees, up to eighteen per cent of the total premium equivalent as determined by the Comptroller.
(May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-3, S. 115.)
History: May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-3 effective July 1, 2016.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 5 - State Employees › Chapter 67 - State Personnel Act › Section 5-259g. - Persons ineligible for special enrollment periods.

No special enrollment period established in the general statutes that permits a person to enroll in a health insurance policy, plan or arrangement because such person has become pregnant shall be available to any person insured under (1) a group hospitalization and medical and surgical insurance plan or plans procured by the Comptroller pursuant to section 5-259, or (2) a fully insured group health insurance policy sponsored by a municipality.
(P.A. 18-43, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 18-43 effective January 1, 2019.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 5 - State Employees › Chapter 67 - State Personnel Act › Section 5-260. - Deduction of organization dues.

Upon request of any state employee who is a member of any organization which includes among its members at least three hundred state employees and which functions at least in part to serve the economic or professional interest of such state employee members, the Comptroller shall deduct from such employee's salary his dues as such a member and shall remit the amounts so deducted to the treasurer of the organization designated by the employee in such request. Such deduction may be discontinued upon written request thirty days in advance.
(1967, P.A. 657, S. 67.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 5 - State Employees › Chapter 67 - State Personnel Act › Section 5-260a. - Deduction of contributions to nonprofit organizations.

The Comptroller shall, upon the written request of any state employee, deduct each month from the salary or wages of such employee the amount of money designated by such employee for payment to a nonprofit organization pursuant to the terms of an applicable collective bargaining agreement. The Comptroller shall remit amounts so deducted to the treasurer of the organization designated by the employee.
(P.A. 84-405.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 5 - State Employees › Chapter 67 - State Personnel Act › Section 5-261. - Deduction of credit union savings.

When, in the opinion of the Comptroller, a sufficient number of state employees who are members of a credit union organization of state employees desires to have payroll deductions for credit union savings, the Comptroller may deduct from each such employee's salary such savings as such employee designates in accordance with the rules of such organization, and the Comptroller shall remit the amounts so deducted to the treasurers of such organizations.
(1967, P.A. 657, S. 68.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 5 - State Employees › Chapter 67 - State Personnel Act › Section 5-263a. - Suggestion awards program.

Section 5-263a is repealed, effective October 1, 2019.
(P.A. 85-360, S. 1, 3; P.A. 91-405, S. 1; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-8, S. 2, 5; P.A. 93-282, S. 1, 2; P.A. 12-205, S. 22; P.A. 19-10, S. 2.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 5 - State Employees › Chapter 67 - State Personnel Act › Section 5-264b. - Dependent care spending account program.

The Comptroller shall maintain a dependent care spending account program for state employees in accordance with Section 129 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and regulations adopted pursuant to such section. Under such program, the Comptroller or the program administrator, upon receipt of the written request of an employee, shall establish and maintain a dependent care spending account for such employee. The Comptroller shall reduce the salary of such employee by the amount designated in such request. Such amount shall be transferred to the employee's dependent care spending account and shall be used to reimburse the employee for expenses incurred for dependent care which are eligible for reimbursement under the provisions of Section 129 of the Internal Revenue Code. The Comptroller may contract with an administrator for the management of this program. For the purposes of this section, “state employees” includes members of the General Assembly.
(P.A. 90-296, S. 1, 4; P.A. 95-212, S. 4, 7; P.A. 97-302, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 95-212 transferred administration of dependent care spending account program from Commissioner of Administrative Services to Comptroller, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 97-302 redefined “state employees” to include members of the General Assembly.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 5 - State Employees › Chapter 67 - State Personnel Act › Section 5-264c. - Treatment of funds deposited in dependent care spending account program.

All funds deposited in this program pursuant to section 5-264b shall be held by the Comptroller or by a program administrator as agent for the participating employer. Such funds shall be separately accounted for and shall remain the property of the employer. All payments from such account shall be made in accordance with the applicable sections of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the regulations adopted pursuant to said section. All funds deposited in this program shall be exempt from the provisions of chapter 66 concerning additional employee contributions under the tier I retirement plan and additional hazardous duty employee contributions.
(P.A. 90-296, S. 2, 4; P.A. 95-212, S. 5, 7.)
History: P.A. 95-212 substituted Comptroller for Department of Administrative Services, effective July 1, 1995.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 5 - State Employees › Chapter 67 - State Personnel Act › Section 5-264d. - Flexible health care spending account program.

The Comptroller shall maintain a flexible health care spending account program for state employees in accordance with Sections 105 and 125 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as from time to time amended, and regulations adopted pursuant to Sections 105 and 125 of said Internal Revenue Code. Under the program, the Comptroller or the program administrator, upon receipt of the written request of an employee, shall establish and maintain a flexible health care spending account for such employee. The Comptroller shall reduce the salary of such employee by the amount designated in such request. Such amount shall be transferred to the employee's flexible health care spending account and shall be used to reimburse the employee for expenses incurred for medical care which are eligible for reimbursement under Section 213 of said Internal Revenue Code. The Comptroller may contract with a program administrator for the management of the program. For the purposes of this section, “state employees” includes members of the General Assembly.
(P.A. 04-98, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 04-98 effective July 1, 2004.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 5 - State Employees › Chapter 67 - State Personnel Act › Section 5-264e. - Treatment of funds deposited pursuant to the flexible health care spending account program.

All funds deposited pursuant to the flexible health care spending account program established in section 5-264d shall be held by the Comptroller or by a program administrator as agent for the participating employer. Such funds shall be separately accounted for and shall remain the property of the employer. The funds shall be maintained in accordance with Section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as from time to time amended, and such funds shall be used to reimburse the employee for expenses incurred for medical care which are eligible for reimbursement under Section 213 of said Internal Revenue Code. The funds deposited pursuant to the program shall be exempt from the provisions of chapter 66 concerning additional employee contributions under the tier I retirement plan and additional hazardous duty employee contributions.
(P.A. 04-98, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 04-98 effective July 1, 2004.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 5 - State Employees › Chapter 67 - State Personnel Act › Section 5-265. - Special training courses for state employees. Exchange of employees.

Departments, agencies and institutions may enter into agreements with educational institutions for special training courses for state employees and may enter into agreements with the federal government or other state governments for exchange of employees.
(1967, P.A. 657, S. 71; P.A. 77-614, S. 67, 610; P.A. 14-187, S. 46.)
History: P.A. 77-614 replaced personnel policy board with commissioner of administrative services; P.A. 14-187 deleted reference to regulations issued by Commissioner of Administrative Services, effective June 11, 2014.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 5 - State Employees › Chapter 67 - State Personnel Act › Section 5-266b. - Permitted activity.

Nothing contained in sections 5-266a to 5-266d, inclusive, prohibits political activity by such persons in the classified service in connection with (1) an election and the campaign preceding such election if none of the candidates is to be elected at that election as representing a party any of whose candidates for presidential elector received votes in the last-preceding election at which presidential electors were selected; or (2) a question which is not specifically identified with a national or state political party. For the purpose of this section, questions relating to constitutional amendments, referenda, approval of municipal ordinances, and others of a similar character, are deemed not specifically identified with a national or state political party.
(1971, P.A. 103, S. 2.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 5 - State Employees › Chapter 67 - State Personnel Act › Section 5-266c. - Regulations.

Section 5-266c is repealed, effective June 11, 2014.
(1971, P.A. 103, S. 3; P.A. 77-614, S. 67, 610; P.A. 13-247, S. 372; P.A. 14-187, S. 55.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 5 - State Employees › Chapter 67 - State Personnel Act › Section 5-266d. - Dismissal or suspension of employee. Appeal.

If, upon the complaint of any citizen of the state, the Commissioner of Administrative Services finds that any employee in the classified service has violated any provision of section 5-266a, said commissioner may dismiss such employee from state service. If said commissioner finds that the violation does not warrant removal, the commissioner may impose a penalty on such employee of suspension from such employee's position without pay for not less than thirty days or more than six months. Any employee aggrieved by any action of the commissioner under the provisions of this section may appeal as provided in section 5-202.
(1971, P.A. 103, S. 4; P.A. 77-614, S. 66, 610; P.A. 13-247, S. 373; P.A. 14-187, S. 30.)
History: P.A. 77-614 replaced personnel commissioner with commissioner of administrative services; P.A. 13-247 replaced reference to violations under Secs. 5-266a to 5-266d with reference to violations under Sec. 5-266a or regulations promulgated pursuant to Sec. 5-266c, and made technical changes, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 14-187 deleted reference to regulations promulgated pursuant to Sec. 5-266c, effective June 11, 2014.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 5 - State Employees › Chapter 67 - State Personnel Act › Section 5-267. - Officers, appointing authorities and employees to comply with law.

All officers, appointing authorities and other state employees shall conform to, comply with and aid in carrying into effect the provisions of this chapter and the regulations issued hereunder. When any order is made under the provisions of this chapter or in accordance with the regulations hereunder, any officer or other person to whom such order is directed shall forthwith comply with the terms and provisions thereof.
(1967, P.A. 657, S. 73.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 5 - State Employees › Chapter 67 - State Personnel Act › Section 5-268. - Penalty.

Any person who, wilfully or through culpable negligence, violates, or who conspires to violate, any provision of this chapter shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year or both. Prosecutions for violations of this chapter may be instituted by the state's attorney for the judicial district in which the offense is alleged to have been committed.
(1967, P.A. 657, S. 74; P.A. 78-280, S. 2, 127.)
History: P.A. 78-280 substituted “judicial district” for “county”.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 5 - State Employees › Chapter 68 - Collective Bargaining for State Employees › Section 5-271. - Rights of employees and representatives. Duty of fair representation.

(a) Employees shall have, and shall be protected in the exercise of the right of self-organization, to form, join or assist any employee organization, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing on questions of wages, hours and other conditions of employment, except as provided in subsection (d) of section 5-272, and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection, free from actual interference, restraint or coercion.
(b) When an employee organization has been designated by the State Board of Labor Relations as the representative of the majority of employees in an appropriate unit, that employee organization shall be recognized by the employer as the exclusive bargaining agent for the employees of such unit.
(c) When an employee organization has been designated in accordance with the provisions of this chapter as the exclusive representative of employees in an appropriate unit, it shall have the right to act for and to negotiate agreements covering all employees in the unit and shall be responsible for representing the interests of all such employees without discrimination and without regard to employee organization membership.
(d) When an employee organization has been designated, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, as the exclusive representative of employees in an appropriate unit, it shall have a duty of fair representation to the members of that unit.
(e) An individual employee at any time may present a grievance to his employer and have the grievance adjusted, without intervention of an employee organization, provided the adjustment shall not be inconsistent with the terms of a collective bargaining agreement then in effect. The employee organization designated as the exclusive representative shall be given prior notice of the grievance and shall be informed of the terms of the settlement.
(f) The employer and such employee organization as has been designated as exclusive representative of employees in an appropriate unit, through appropriate officials or their representatives, shall have the duty to bargain collectively. This duty extends to the obligation to bargain collectively as set forth in subsection (c) of section 5-272.
(P.A. 75-566, S. 2.; P.A. 93-426, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 93-426 inserted new Subsec. (d) to impose a duty of fair representation on employee organizations representing state employees and redesignated existing Subsecs. (d) and (e) as (e) and (f), respectively.
Cited. 192 C. 539; 201 C. 685.
Cited. 40 CS 381.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 5 - State Employees › Chapter 68 - Collective Bargaining for State Employees › Section 5-273. - Powers of State Board of Labor Relations.

The State Board of Labor Relations shall administer sections 5-270 to 5-280, inclusive, as follows:
(a) The board shall exercise those powers and perform those duties which are specifically provided for in said sections. Those powers and duties shall be in addition to and exercised completely independent of any powers and duties specifically granted to it by statutory enactment.
(b) The board shall have authority, from time to time, to make, amend and rescind such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of sections 5-270 to 5-280, inclusive. Such rules and regulations shall be effective upon passage, in conformance with the terms of chapter 54.
(P.A. 75-566, S. 4.)
Cited. 43 CS 1.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 5 - State Employees › Chapter 68 - Collective Bargaining for State Employees › Section 5-276. - Mediation and arbitration services by State Board of Mediation and Arbitration.

(a) The services of the State Board of Mediation and Arbitration shall be available to employers or employee organizations designated as the exclusive bargaining representative for purposes of settlement of grievances arising out of the interpretation and application of the terms of a written agreement, for mediation of impasses in contract negotiations, for purposes of arbitration of disputes over the interpretation or application of the terms of a written agreement and for arbitration of impasses resulting from negotiations over unit contracts, unit reopeners and coalition bargaining matters as provided in subsection (f) of section 5-278.
(b) Nothing contained herein shall prevent the use of other arbitration tribunals in the resolution of disputes between employers and designated employee organizations.
(P.A. 75-566, S. 7; P.A. 86-411, S. 2, 8.)
History: P.A. 86-411 provided that the state board of mediation and arbitration shall provide arbitration services for negotiation impasses concerning unit contracts, reopeners and coalition bargaining, effective July 1, 1986, and applicable to negotiations then in progress.
Cited. 20 CA 676.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 5 - State Employees › Chapter 68 - Collective Bargaining for State Employees › Section 5-276b. - Interest charges on overdue arbitration settlement payments.

(a) Whenever a monetary settlement is awarded pursuant to an interest arbitration proceeding conducted pursuant to section 5-276a, and such award is not rejected by the legislature pursuant to section 5-278, and payment is not made in accordance with the terms of such settlement within sixty days of the date such award was issued, the party liable for such payment shall be required to pay interest, at the rate of five per cent per annum, on such overdue payment, calculated from the date the award was issued.
(b) Whenever a monetary settlement is awarded pursuant to a state employee grievance arbitration proceeding, and payment is not made in accordance with the terms of such settlement within thirty days of the date such award was issued, the party liable for such payment shall be required to pay interest, at the rate of five per cent per annum, on such overdue payment, calculated from the date the award was issued.
(P.A. 87-335.)
Subsec. (b):
Constitutes statutory exception to power of Claims Commissioner and is legislative waiver of sovereign immunity with respect to interest. 20 CA 676.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 5 - State Employees › Chapter 68 - Collective Bargaining for State Employees › Section 5-277. - Petition to State Board of Mediation and Arbitration for fact finding.

Section 5-277 is repealed.
(P.A. 75-566, S. 8; P.A. 86-411, S. 7, 8.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 5 - State Employees › Chapter 68 - Collective Bargaining for State Employees › Section 5-278a. - Certain provisions of collective bargaining agreement to remain in effect.

In the event an agreement expires before a new agreement has been approved by the employee organization, the employer representative and the legislature, the provisions of the expired agreement concerning (1) salary, excluding annual increments, (2) differentials, (3) overtime, (4) longevity, and (5) allowances for uniforms, which were implemented pursuant to approval by the legislature in accordance with section 5-278 shall remain in effect until such time as a new agreement is reached and approved in accordance with section 5-278. Nothing in this section shall affect the rights and duties of the employer and any exclusive employee representative designated to negotiate such new agreement under sections 5-271 to 5-280, inclusive, during the period of time after such agreement expires including the right to negotiate the extension of the expired agreement or any provision thereof not otherwise extended by this section. Notwithstanding any provision of a statute to the contrary, in the event an agreement expires before a new agreement has been approved by the employee organization, the employer representative and the legislature, the employer representative and the exclusive employee representative designated to negotiate such new agreement shall negotiate and agree upon payment of an exclusive payroll deduction of employee organization regular dues, fees and assessments and, upon reaching such agreement, such payment shall be made to such exclusive employee representative.
(P.A. 79-621, S. 22, 24; P.A. 86-411, S. 6, 8; P.A. 93-80, S. 56, 67.)
History: P.A. 86-411 clarified that the section applies to the exclusive employee representative designated, rather than certified, to negotiate a new agreement, effective July 1, 1986, and applicable to negotiations then in progress; P.A. 93-80 limited provisions of expired agreement which remain in effect until approval of a new agreement to provisions “concerning (1) salary, excluding annual increments, (2) differentials, (3) overtime, (4) longevity, and (5) allowances for uniforms”, effective January 1, 1994.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 5 - State Employees › Chapter 68 - Collective Bargaining for State Employees › Section 5-278b. - Limitation on terms of collective bargaining agreements.

On and after June 30, 2027, no agreement negotiated pursuant to the provisions of subsection (f) of section 5-278 shall be for a term of more than four years.
(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 218.)
History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 effective October 31, 2017.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 5 - State Employees › Chapter 68 - Collective Bargaining for State Employees › Section 5-280. - Payment of dues to exclusive representative required.

(a) If an exclusive representative has been designated for the employees in an appropriate collective bargaining unit, each employee in such unit who is not a member of the exclusive representative shall be required, as a condition of continued employment, to pay to such organization for the period that it is the exclusive representative, an amount equal to the regular dues, fees and assessments that a member is charged.
(b) Employers and employee organizations are authorized to negotiate provisions in a collective bargaining agreement calling for the payroll deduction of employee organization dues and initiation fees and for payroll deduction of the service fee described in subsection (a) of this section.
(P.A. 75-566, S. 11.)
Subsec. (a):
Plaintiff failed to sustain its burden of proof on damages with respect to permissible purposes of collective bargaining contract administration and grievance procedure. 38 CS 629.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 6 - Counties and County Officers. Judicial and State Marshals › Chapter 76 - County Organization › Section 6-1. - Number and composition of counties.

There shall be in the state eight counties, which shall be constituted as follows:
Hartford County. The towns of Hartford, Avon, Berlin, Bloomfield, Bristol, Burlington, Canton, East Granby, East Hartford, East Windsor, Enfield, Farmington, Glastonbury, Granby, Hartland, Manchester, Marlborough, New Britain, Newington, Plainville, Rocky Hill, Simsbury, Southington, South Windsor, Suffield, West Hartford, Wethersfield, Windsor and Windsor Locks shall constitute one county by the name of the county of Hartford.
New Haven County. The towns of New Haven, Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Bethany, Branford, Cheshire, Derby, East Haven, Guilford, Hamden, Madison, Meriden, Middlebury, Milford, Naugatuck, North Branford, North Haven, Orange, Oxford, Prospect, Seymour, Southbury, Wallingford, Waterbury, West Haven, Wolcott and Woodbridge shall constitute one county by the name of the county of New Haven.
New London County. The towns of New London, Norwich, Bozrah, Colchester, East Lyme, Franklin, Griswold, Groton, Lebanon, Ledyard, Lisbon, Lyme, Montville, North Stonington, Old Lyme, Preston, Salem, Sprague, Stonington, Voluntown and Waterford shall constitute one county by the name of the county of New London.
Fairfield County. The towns of Bridgeport, Danbury, Bethel, Brookfield, Darien, Easton, Fairfield, Greenwich, Monroe, New Canaan, New Fairfield, Newtown, Norwalk, Redding, Ridgefield, Shelton, Sherman, Stamford, Stratford, Trumbull, Weston, Westport and Wilton shall constitute one county by the name of the county of Fairfield.
Windham County. The towns of Windham, Putnam, Ashford, Brooklyn, Canterbury, Chaplin, Eastford, Hampton, Killingly, Plainfield, Pomfret, Scotland, Sterling, Thompson and Woodstock shall constitute one county by the name of the county of Windham.
Litchfield County. The towns of Litchfield, Barkhamsted, Bethlehem, Bridgewater, Canaan, Colebrook, Cornwall, Goshen, Harwinton, Kent, Morris, New Hartford, New Milford, Norfolk, North Canaan, Plymouth, Roxbury, Salisbury, Sharon, Thomaston, Torrington, Warren, Washington, Watertown, Winchester and Woodbury shall constitute one county by the name of the county of Litchfield.
Middlesex County. The towns of Middletown, Chester, Clinton, Cromwell, Deep River, Durham, East Haddam, East Hampton, Essex, Haddam, Killingworth, Middlefield, Old Saybrook, Portland and Westbrook shall constitute one county by the name of the county of Middlesex.
Tolland County. The towns of Tolland, Vernon, Andover, Bolton, Columbia, Coventry, Ellington, Hebron, Mansfield, Somers, Stafford, Union and Willington shall constitute one county by the name of the county of Tolland.
(1949 Rev., S. 422.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 6 - Counties and County Officers. Judicial and State Marshals › Chapter 76 - County Organization › Section 6-2. - Boundaries on Long Island Sound.

The counties of New London, Middlesex, New Haven and Fairfield extend southerly to the southerly boundary line of the state as that boundary line is settled and defined by an agreement with the state of New York bearing date December 8, 1879, and published with the special acts of the General Assembly passed in the year 1880, and consented to and approved by the Congress of the United States by an Act approved February 26, 1881. The dividing line between any two of said counties which border on each other is and shall continue to be a line drawn due south from their original southeast and southwest corners to the said southerly boundary line of the state.
(1949 Rev., S. 423.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 6 - Counties and County Officers. Judicial and State Marshals › Chapter 76 - County Organization › Section 6-2a. - State succession to property and liabilities of counties.

(a) On and after October 1, 1960, all property, property rights and choses in action of any kind belonging to the several counties of the state and all powers and authority of said counties shall be vested in the state and all debts, obligations, liabilities and duties of said counties shall be assumed by the state without further action on its part; provided, after October 1, 1960, there shall be rebated proportionately to the contributing towns all liquid assets in county funds remaining after deduction of current liabilities with the exception of bonded indebtedness and interest thereon of the county assumed by the state. Number 152 of the public acts of 1959 shall not affect any legal actions pending on October 1, 1960, but the state shall succeed to the county as a party to any such action, nor shall it release or affect any taxes theretofore laid by said counties nor any fines, penalties or forfeitures theretofore incurred and due said counties but all such taxes, fines, penalties and forfeitures shall be collected by the Commissioner of Revenue Services and by him paid to the State Treasurer and applied first to the payment of any outstanding indebtedness of the counties within which collected.
(b) On and after June 2, 1961, all real property and all rights relating to such real property which vested in the state under the provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall be vested in the State Treasurer, and said Treasurer shall, with the approval of the Attorney General, exercise in his name and for the state all powers in regard to such property and rights therein.
(1959, P.A. 152, S. 91; 1961, P.A. 314; P.A. 77-614, S. 139, 610.)
History: 1961 act added Subsec. (b); P.A. 77-614 substituted commissioner of revenue services for tax commissioner, effective January 1, 1979.
See Sec. 3-14a re administration of trusts for counties by State Treasurer.
Cited. 148 C. 607, 609, 610. Vote by county commissioners prior to Oct. 1, 1960, to appropriate all surplus funds of county as of Sept. 30, 1960, for county agricultural extension service not in contravention, although perhaps in circumvention, of statute. Id., 613.
County given privileged status in trial of action because of imminent termination of existence. 22 CS 157.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 6 - Counties and County Officers. Judicial and State Marshals › Chapter 76 - County Organization › Section 6-2b. - Retired county employees.

All former employees of the several counties receiving pensions from the Municipal Employees' Retirement Fund, county appropriations or any private pension plan contracted for by any county shall continue to receive pensions through payments from the Municipal Employees' Retirement Fund, appropriations from the General Fund or assumption by the state of the contract, as the case may be, in each case equivalent to the amount which such employee received prior to October 1, 1960, and the state assumes liability for any payments which might be due the Municipal Employees' Retirement Fund for persons receiving pensions from said fund under the provisions of this section.
(1959, P.A. 152, S. 93.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 6 - Counties and County Officers. Judicial and State Marshals › Chapter 77 - County Officers, Appropriations and Taxes › Section 6-3 to 6-28. - Sections 6-3 to 6-28, inclusive, are repealed.

(1949 Rev., S. 424-434, 436-448, 3617; 1949, 1955, S. 187d, 188d; November, 1955, S. N6; 1957, P.A. 5; 12; 25; 228; 307; 1959, P.A. 152, S. 99.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 6 - Counties and County Officers. Judicial and State Marshals › Chapter 77 - County Officers, Appropriations and Taxes › Section 6-28a. - Statutory references to county commissioners or treasurers changed.

Any reference in the general statutes or special acts to county commissioners or county treasurers, or their powers and duties, shall be to the state or the State Treasurer, as the case may be.
(1959, P.A. 152, S. 98.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 6 - Counties and County Officers. Judicial and State Marshals › Chapter 77 - County Officers, Appropriations and Taxes › Section 6-28b. - Employment of former county employees after military service.

Section 6-28b is repealed, effective October 1, 2002.
(1959, P.A. 152, S. 21; P.A. 77-614, S. 66, 610; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 6 - Counties and County Officers. Judicial and State Marshals › Chapter 78 - Judicial and State Marshals › Section 6-29. - Ineligibility for office.

No judge, except a judge of probate, and no justice of the peace shall be a state marshal.
(1949 Rev., S. 450; 1953, S. 190d; P.A. 00-99, S. 126, 154.)
History: P.A. 00-99 replaced reference to “hold the office of sheriff or deputy sheriff” with “be a state marshal”, effective December 1, 2000.
Acceptance of office of sheriff or deputy sheriff constitutes a surrender of office of justice of the peace. 25 C. 567.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 6 - Counties and County Officers. Judicial and State Marshals › Chapter 78 - Judicial and State Marshals › Section 6-30. - Bond.

Section 6-30 is repealed, effective December 1, 2000.
(1949 Rev., S. 451; P.A. 73-237, S. 1, 3; P.A. 94-177, S. 9; May 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-1, S. 67, 130; P.A. 00-99, S. 153, 154.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 6 - Counties and County Officers. Judicial and State Marshals › Chapter 78 - Judicial and State Marshals › Section 6-30a. - Personal liability insurance. Indemnification of state marshal for injury occurring while transporting person in custody in a private motor vehicle.

(a) On and after December 1, 2000, each state marshal shall carry personal liability insurance for damages caused by reason of such state marshal's tortious acts in not less than the following amounts: (1) For damages caused to any one person or to the property of any one person, one hundred thousand dollars; and (2) for damages caused to more than one person or to the property of more than one person, three hundred thousand dollars. For the purpose of this subsection, “tortious act” means negligent acts, errors or omissions for which a state marshal may become legally obligated to any damages for false arrest, erroneous service of civil papers, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, libel, slander, defamation of character, violation of property rights or assault and battery if committed while making or attempting to make an arrest or against a person under arrest, but does not include any such act unless committed in the performance of the official duties of such state marshal.
(b) The state shall protect and save harmless any state marshal from financial loss and expense, including court costs and reasonable attorney's fees, arising out of any claim, demand or suit instituted against the state marshal for personal injury or injury to property by, or as a result of the actions of, any person who is lawfully taken into custody by the state marshal, pursuant to a capias issued by Support Enforcement Services of the Superior Court and directed to the state marshal, if such injury occurs when such person, while in such custody, is transported in a private motor vehicle operated by the state marshal. In the event a judgment is entered against the state marshal for a malicious, wanton or wilful act, the state marshal shall reimburse the state for any expenses incurred by the state in defending the state marshal and the state shall not be held liable to the state marshal for any financial loss or expense resulting from such act.
(P.A. 76-15; P.A. 00-99, S. 128, 154; P.A. 01-195, S. 7, 181; P.A. 07-69, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 00-99 replaced references to sheriff and deputy sheriff with state marshal, requiring state marshals to carry personal liability insurance for tortious acts, effective December 1, 2000; P.A. 01-195 made a technical change for purposes of gender neutrality, effective July 11, 2001; P.A. 07-69 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a), made technical changes therein and added Subsec. (b) re indemnification of any state marshal for an injury occurring while transporting a person in custody in a private motor vehicle operated by the state marshal.
Cited. 229 C. 479. Section does not constitute waiver of sovereign immunity. 265 C. 301.
Cited. 44 CS 368.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 6 - Counties and County Officers. Judicial and State Marshals › Chapter 78 - Judicial and State Marshals › Section 6-32a and 6-32b. - Prisoner transportation and courthouse security system; Sheriffs' Advisory Board established. Powers and duties of Sheriffs' Advisory Board.

Sections 6-32a and 6-32b are repealed, effective December 1, 2000.
(P.A. 80-394, S. 1, 2, 13; P.A. 81-235; P.A. 87-496, S. 44, 110; P.A. 89-272; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-12, S. 42, 55; P.A. 94-177, S. 2; May 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-1, S. 67, 130; July 21 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-1, S. 7, 8; P.A. 00-99, S. 139, 140, 153, 154.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 6 - Counties and County Officers. Judicial and State Marshals › Chapter 78 - Judicial and State Marshals › Section 6-32c. - Court security officer. Definition. Appointment. Training. Duties. Discharge.

Section 6-32c is repealed.
(P.A. 80-394, S. 3, 13; P.A. 81-437, S. 10, 12; P.A. 84-397, S. 6, 7.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 6 - Counties and County Officers. Judicial and State Marshals › Chapter 78 - Judicial and State Marshals › Section 6-32e. - Employment of criminal offenders, excepted.

Sections 46a-79 to 46a-81, inclusive, shall not be applicable to the prisoner transportation and courthouse security system, provided nothing herein shall be construed to preclude the prisoner transportation and courthouse security system from adopting the policy set forth in said sections.
(P.A. 80-394, S. 4, 13; P.A. 01-195, S. 10, 181.)
History: P.A. 01-195 deleted references to repealed Sec. 6-32a, effective July 11, 2001.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 6 - Counties and County Officers. Judicial and State Marshals › Chapter 78 - Judicial and State Marshals › Section 6-32f. - Courthouse security. Judicial marshals: Employment standards.

(a) The Judicial Department shall be responsible for courthouse security and shall employ judicial marshals for such purpose. The Chief Court Administrator shall establish employment standards and implement appropriate training programs to assure court security. On and after October 1, 2011, the Judicial Department shall make available on its Internet web site a written summary of such employment standards, including, but not limited to, the standards for selection, continuance of employment and promotion for such judicial marshals.
(b) Any property used by the sheriffs for court security shall be transferred to the Judicial Department. The Chief Court Administrator shall be responsible for the custody, care and control of courthouse facilities.
(c) As used in this section, “courthouse security” and “court security” include the provision of security services to any judicial facility or to any facility of a state agency pursuant to a written agreement, provided (1) such facility is located contiguous to a courthouse, and (2) the Chief Court Administrator determines that, based on the proximity and design of the courthouse and the contiguous facility, the security requirements are mutual and best served through the provision of security services by judicial marshals.
(P.A. 00-99, S. 2, 154; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-9, S. 55, 131; P.A. 10-94, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 00-99 effective December 1, 2000; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-9 added definition of “courthouse security” and “court security”, effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 10-94 inserted Subsec. designators (a), (b) and (c) and amended Subsec. (a) to substitute “shall establish” for “may establish” re employment standards and provide that, on and after October 1, 2011, Judicial Department shall make available on its Internet web site a written summary of employment standards for judicial marshals.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 6 - Counties and County Officers. Judicial and State Marshals › Chapter 78 - Judicial and State Marshals › Section 6-32g. - Criminal record background investigation of applicants for employment as judicial marshal after December 1, 2000.

After December 1, 2000, the Chief Court Administrator shall require an applicant for employment as a judicial marshal pursuant to sections 6-32d and 6-32f to submit to a criminal record background investigation, to be conducted by the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The applicant shall pay all processing fees incurred for such investigation.
(P.A. 00-99, S. 3, 154; P.A. 11-51, S. 134.)
History: P.A. 00-99 effective December 1, 2000; pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Department of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 6 - Counties and County Officers. Judicial and State Marshals › Chapter 78 - Judicial and State Marshals › Section 6-32h. - Employment of staff for transferred functions of county sheriff system by Chief Court Administrator.

The Chief Court Administrator shall employ, within available appropriations for such purpose, such staff as are necessary to support the transferred functions of the county sheriff system. The Chief Court Administrator shall first offer such employment to qualified persons employed in the administration of the county sheriff system on July 1, 2000.
(P.A. 00-99, S. 10, 154.)
History: P.A. 00-99 effective December 1, 2000.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 6 - Counties and County Officers. Judicial and State Marshals › Chapter 78 - Judicial and State Marshals › Section 6-33 and 6-33a. - Salaries. Reimbursement to state for use of motor vehicle owned or leased by state, when.

Sections 6-33 and 6-33a are repealed, effective June 11, 2018.
(1949 Rev., S. 3619; 1951, 1955, S. 1977d; 1959, P.A. 152, S. 10; February, 1965, P.A. 420, S. 1; 1967, P.A. 387, S. 1; P.A. 77-576, S. 60, 65; P.A. 82-442, S. 2, 5; P.A. 87-413, S. 1, 3; P.A. 94-177, S. 7; May 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-1, S. 67, 130; P.A. 00-99, S. 141, 154; 00-210, S. 4, 5; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-9, S. 7, 131; P.A. 18-137, S. 27.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 6 - Counties and County Officers. Judicial and State Marshals › Chapter 78 - Judicial and State Marshals › Section 6-34. - Suppressing mobs. Taxation of expenses.

Section 6-34 is repealed, effective December 1, 2000.
(1949 Rev., S. 3620; P.A. 00-99, S. 153, 154.)