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2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-323f. - Insurance policies to provide benefits authorized.

(a) All contributions received by the Retirement Commission in accordance with this part shall be paid over daily to the State Treasurer, who shall be the custodian of the fund with power to invest and reinvest as much of said fund as is not required for current disbursement in accordance with the provisions of part I of chapter 32. All benefits, allowances and other payments authorized by this part shall be made from the fund upon vouchers approved by the Retirement Commission.
(b) The Retirement Commission in its discretion may direct that the Comptroller, with the approval of the Attorney General and the Insurance Commissioner, shall obtain a policy or policies of group insurance or a group annuity contract or contracts from one or more insurance companies licensed to do business in this state, which shall provide the benefits specified in section 7-323e in lieu of payment of such benefits from the fund. The premiums payable under any such policy or contract shall be paid from the fund. Any experience credit or dividend paid in connection with any such policy or policies or contract or contracts shall be added to such fund.
(1963, P.A. 390, S. 6; P.A. 77-614, S. 163, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 13, 348; P.A. 99-70, S. 2, 3.)
History: P.A. 77-614 made insurance department a division within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 restored insurance division as independent department and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; P.A. 99-70 designated existing section as Subsec. (b) and added new Subsec. (a) requiring contributions to be paid over to the State Treasurer, effective May 27, 1999.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-323g. - Withdrawal of acceptance.

A municipality may withdraw its acceptance of the provisions of this part, for either its policemen or firemen or both, by the same procedure as provided in section 7-323b for acceptance of this part, provided, if survivors' benefits are, at the time of withdrawal, being paid or due to be paid to survivors of policemen or firemen, or both, of the withdrawing municipality, the withdrawing municipality shall be liable to the fund for any additional sums necessary to continue payment of the survivors' benefits throughout the period when any such survivor shall be entitled to benefits under the terms of this part.
(February, 1965, P.A. 197, S. 4.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-323h. - Municipal liability for maintaining benefits.

Each municipality participating in the Policemen and Firemen Survivors' Benefit Fund established by this part shall be liable to the fund for the cost of maintaining for its employees the benefits herein, including all contributions collected from employees. The liability of a municipality under this part shall be enforceable by the Retirement Commission against such municipality through appropriate action in the Superior Court.
(1967, P.A. 480, S. 1.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-323i. - Administration of fund.

The administration of said fund, except as the same relates to the custody and investment of the fund, shall be entrusted to the Retirement Commission, which may employ actuarial, clerical and other assistance necessary for the purpose and which may make reasonable regulations for carrying out the provisions of this part including designation of the times at and manner in which the participating municipalities shall make the several payments required by this part. Each participating municipality shall furnish, at such times and in such manner as the Retirement Commission directs, information concerning the names, ages, length of service and pay of members employed by such municipality and any other data which the Retirement Commission determines to be necessary for the proper execution of this part and to give prompt notice of all appointments, removals, deaths, resignations, leaves of absence and changes in pay of members.
(1967, P.A. 480, S. 2.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-323j. - Definitions.

As used in this part, “commission” means the Commission on Fire Prevention and Control; “municipality” means town, city, consolidated town and city, consolidated town and borough, borough, school district, fire district, fire and sewer district, sewer district, lighting district or any other municipal corporation or taxing district upon which is placed the duty of, or which has itself assumed the duty of, protecting its inhabitants from loss by fire; “fire fighting duties” means and includes duties performed in connection with the suppression and prevention of fires, fire training and rescue, fire investigation, arson investigation, details and assignments to protect the public safety against fire and other related work; “firefighters” means any person who is regularly employed and paid by any municipality or by a contractor which is a nonprofit corporation for the purpose of performing fire fighting duties for a municipality on an average of not less than thirty-five hours per week or any volunteer who performs fire fighting duties and who elects to cooperate with the commission in accordance with section 7-323m.
(P.A. 73-649, S. 1, 5; P.A. 75-617, S. 1, 8; P.A. 83-566, S. 2, 6.)
History: P.A. 75-617 substituted commission on fire prevention and control for commission on fire fighting personnel standards and education, redefined “fire fighting duties” to include training and rescue and redefined firefighters to include volunteer firemen who elect to cooperate with commission; P.A. 83-566 amended the definition of “firefighters” to exclude persons paid by contractors organized for profit.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-323m. - Exceptions, voluntary cooperation.

This part shall not apply to any municipality which employs fewer than six paid firefighters or to any volunteer fire department or its employees or members. Any such municipality or volunteer fire department may elect to cooperate with the commission with regard to any provision of this part.
(P.A. 73-649, S. 4, 5; P.A. 75-617, S. 4, 8; P.A. 76-435, S. 43, 82.)
History: P.A. 75-617 specified applicability only with respect to departments having at least six “paid” firefighters; P.A. 76-435 made technical changes.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-323n. - Office of State Fire Administration.

There is established an Office of State Fire Administration, which office shall: (a) Carry out the provisions of this part; (b) administer the state's responsibilities under federal laws relevant to fire service; (c) develop a master plan for fire prevention and control; and (d) carry out any other function which the commission may devise. Subject to the provisions of chapter 67, the commission may appoint such clerical and other assistants as it may deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.
(P.A. 75-617, S. 5, 8.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-323o. - State Fire Administrator, appointment and duties.

There is established the position of State Fire Administrator who shall be recommended by the Commission on Fire Prevention and Control and appointed by the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection and who shall: (1) Carry out the requirements of section 7-323n; (2) administer federal funds and grants allocated to the fire services of the state; (3) provide technical assistance and guidance to fire fighting forces of any state or municipal agency; (4) develop a centralized information and audiovisual library regarding fire prevention and control; (5) accumulate, disseminate and analyze fire prevention data; (6) recommend specifications of fire service materials and equipment and assist in the purchasing thereof; (7) assist in mutual aid coordination; (8) coordinate fire programs with those of the other states; (9) assist in communications coordination; (10) establish and maintain a fire service information program; and (11) review the purchase of fire apparatus or equipment at state institutions, facilities and properties and, on and after July 1, 1985, coordinate the training and education of fire service personnel at such institutions, facilities and properties. The provisions of this section shall not be construed to apply to forest fire prevention and control programs administered by the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection pursuant to sections 23-33 to 23-57, inclusive.
(P.A. 75-617, S. 6, 8; P.A. 80-169, S. 3; P.A. 84-357, S. 2; P.A. 86-97, S. 1; P.A. 11-61, S. 81; 11-80, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 80-169 included fire control information as subject of concern for centralized library; P.A. 84-357 added Subdiv. (k), expanding the duties of administrator re fire equipment and personnel at state institutions, facilities and properties; P.A. 86-97 added provision clarifying the authority of the commissioner of environmental protection and substituted numeric Subdiv. indicators for alphabetic Subdiv. indicators; P.A. 11-61 required State Fire Administrator to be recommended by Commission on Fire Prevention and Control and appointed by Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection, changed “Commissioner of Environmental Protection” to “Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection” and made a technical change, effective July 1, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-323q. - Indemnification of fire service instructors.

The state shall save harmless and indemnify any person certified as a fire service instructor by the Commission on Fire Prevention and Control under section 7-323l 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 or other act resulting in personal injury or property damage, which acts are not wanton, reckless or malicious, provided such person, at the time of the acts resulting in such injury or damage, was acting in the discharge of such person's duties (1) as an employee or member of a municipal, state or tribal nation fire department to provide fire service training and instruction for the other members or employees of such municipal, state or tribal nation fire department, (2) as a fire service instructor employed by said commission to provide fire service training and instruction on behalf of said commission, or (3) as a fire service instructor employed by a regional fire school to provide fire service training and instruction on behalf of such school.
(P.A. 89-278, S. 1; P.A. 10-51, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 10-51 added Subdivs. (1) to (3) re types of instructors indemnified and made technical changes.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-323r. - Supplemental grant award remittance program for volunteer fire companies providing services on limited access highways or on the Berlin Turnpike or a section of Route 8.

Section 7-323r is repealed, effective July 1, 2022.
(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-3, S. 28; P.A. 22-118, S. 514.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-323s. - Model guidelines re municipal emergency personnel. Municipal agreements re volunteer service of paid emergency personnel.

(a) The State Fire Administrator, within available appropriations, shall develop model guidelines, on or before January 1, 2007, to be used by municipalities with paid municipal emergency personnel and municipalities with volunteer emergency personnel in entering into agreements authorizing volunteer emergency personnel to serve during personal time.
(b) A municipality with paid municipal emergency personnel and a municipality with volunteer emergency personnel may enter into an agreement authorizing paid emergency personnel to serve during personal time as active members of a volunteer fire department in the municipality in which they reside. In developing such agreements, such municipalities shall consider the model guidelines developed by the State Fire Administrator pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.
(c) The municipalities that are parties to an agreement entered into under subsection (b) of this section may request the Labor Commissioner to provide assistance, within available appropriations, in resolving such issues arising out of the agreement as the commissioner deems appropriate.
(P.A. 06-22, S. 1; P.A. 08-131, S. 1; P.A. 09-7, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 06-22 effective May 2, 2006; P.A. 08-131 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and added Subsec. (b) re municipal agreements concerning volunteer service of paid emergency personnel and Subsec. (c) re requesting aid of Labor Commissioner to resolve issues re such agreements, effective June 5, 2008; P.A. 09-7 made a technical change in Subsec. (c), effective May 4, 2009.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-323t. - Municipal contracts prohibiting paid emergency personnel from volunteer service.

On and after June 5, 2008, no municipality shall enter into a contract that prohibits paid firefighters or paid emergency personnel of such municipality from serving as active members of a volunteer fire department in the municipality in which such firefighters or emergency personnel reside during personal time.
(P.A. 08-131, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 08-131 effective June 5, 2008.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-323u. - Regional fire school. Notice and hearing. Appeals. Regulations.

(a) The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection, in consultation with the Commission on Fire Prevention and Control and the Connecticut State Firefighters Association, shall approve the establishment of any regional fire school. Any municipality seeking to establish a regional fire school shall hold a public hearing in the municipality where the regional fire school is proposed to be established and, after the public hearing, submit an application to the commissioner. Not later than sixty days after such application, the commissioner, in consultation with the commission and the Connecticut State Firefighters Association, shall approve or deny the application.
(b) The commissioner may, in consultation with the commission and the Connecticut State Firefighters Association, suspend or revoke the approval of any regional fire school that fails to meet the standards established by the commissioner in accordance with section 7-323
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or any regulations adopted in accordance with subsection (c) of this section, provided the commissioner shall not suspend or revoke the approval of any regional fire school approved prior to October 1, 2011. The commissioner shall immediately send written notice of its decision to suspend or revoke approval to the regional fire school affected. Not later than ten days after receiving notice that the commissioner has revoked or suspended approval of such regional fire school, the recipient may request a hearing. Not later than thirty days after the commissioner receives such request, the commissioner shall hold a hearing in accordance with chapter 54. Any appeal of the hearing's outcome shall be in accordance with section 4-183.
(c) The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection, in consultation with the commission and the Connecticut State Firefighters Association, shall adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 to implement the provisions of this section.
(P.A. 11-243, S. 3.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-323v. - Payments to volunteer fire companies for providing services on limited access highways or on sections of the Berlin Turnpike or Route 8.

(a) The State Fire Administrator shall, within available appropriations, pay five hundred dollars to each volunteer fire company for each call to which it responds on (1) a limited access highway, designated pursuant to section 13b-27, (2) the section of the highway known as the Berlin Turnpike, which begins at the end of the existing Wilbur Cross Parkway in the town of Meriden and extends northerly along Route 15 to the beginning of a section of limited access highway in the town of Wethersfield known as South Meadows Expressway, or (3) the section of Route 8 in the town of Beacon Falls which is within the boundaries of the Naugatuck State Forest.
(b) No municipality that provides funds to a volunteer fire company may reduce such funding based on the payments that such company receives, or is anticipated to receive, under subsection (a) of this section.
(P.A. 22-146, S. 14.)
History: P.A. 22-146 effective July 1, 2022.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts › Section 7-324. - Definition. Continuation of former districts.

For the purposes of sections 7-324 to 7-329, inclusive, “district” means any fire district, sewer district, fire and sewer district, lighting district, village, beach or improvement association and any other district or association, except a school district, wholly within a town and having the power to make appropriations or to levy taxes. All districts established prior to May 29, 1957, under the provisions of the general statutes or by special act shall be continued; provided any such district may be dissolved or consolidated with the government of any town, city or borough of which it is a part in accordance with the provisions of the general statutes or may, by a two-thirds vote of those voters present at a district meeting, elect to be governed by the provisions of sections 7-324 to 7-329, inclusive, in lieu of the provisions of any general or special act under which such district was established or operated. Notwithstanding any of the provisions of sections 7-324 to 7-329, inclusive, a district established prior to May 29, 1957, and electing to be governed by said sections shall not be required to adopt the form of organization provided for in said sections but may continue its existing form of organization and nevertheless have and exercise the powers and duties granted to districts in said sections and in such event the officers of such district shall have and may exercise the powers and duties granted to district officers in said sections.
(1957, P.A. 465, S. 17(a); September, 1957, P.A. 6, S. 1; 1959, P.A. 595.)
History: 1959 act added provision permitting continuance of existing organization but adoption of home rule act re powers and duties.
Cited. 155 C. 577; 179 C. 589.
Fire districts established prior to May 29, 1957, may be consolidated in accordance with Secs. 7-195 to 7-201. 28 CS 413.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts › Section 7-326. - Purposes.

At such meeting, the voters may establish a district for any or all of the following purposes: To extinguish fires, to light streets, to plant and care for shade and ornamental trees, to construct and maintain roads, sidewalks, crosswalks, drains and sewers, to appoint and employ watchmen or police officers, to acquire, construct, maintain and regulate the use of recreational facilities, to plan, lay out, acquire, construct, reconstruct, repair, maintain, supervise and manage a flood prevention, climate resilience and erosion control system, to plan, lay out, acquire, construct, maintain, operate and regulate the use of a community water system, to collect garbage, ashes and all other refuse matter in any portion of such district and provide for the disposal of such matter, to implement tick control measures, to install highway sound barriers, to maintain water quality in lakes that are located solely in one town in this state, to establish a zoning commission and a zoning board of appeals or a planning commission, or both, by adoption of chapter 124 or chapter 126, excluding section 8-29, or both chapters, as the case may be, which commissions or board shall be dissolved upon adoption by the town of subdivision or zoning regulations by the town planning or zoning commission, to adopt building regulations, which regulations shall be superseded upon adoption by the town of building regulations, and to provide ferry service. Any district may contract with a town, city, borough or other district for carrying out any of the purposes for which such district was established.
(1949 Rev., S. 765; 1955, S. 341d; 1957, P.A. 465, S. 17(c); 1959, P.A. 577, S. 3; P.A. 78-145; P.A. 81-319, S. 5, 6; P.A. 89-356, S. 4; P.A. 05-106, S. 1; 05-289, S. 1; P.A. 09-173, S. 1; P.A. 11-61, S. 7; P.A. 21-115, S. 13.)
History: 1959 act substituted provisions re establishment of zoning commission and board of appeals or planning commission and adoption of building regulations for power to “adopt and enforce subdivision, zoning and building regulations”; P.A. 78-145 included districts for planning, constructing, etc. of community water systems; P.A. 81-319 added the provision that a district may be established to “acquire” recreational facilities; P.A. 89-356 deleted reference to repealed Sec. 8-30; P.A. 05-106 added provision that a district may be established to implement tick control measures, effective June 7, 2005; P.A. 05-289 added provision that a district may be established to install highway sound barriers; P.A. 09-173 added provision re establishment of district to maintain water quality in lakes located solely in one town; P.A. 11-61 authorized district to be established to provide ferry service, effective June 21, 2011; P.A. 21-115 changed name of system from “flood or erosion control system” to “flood prevention, climate resilience and erosion control system”, effective July 1, 2021.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts › Section 7-327a. - Petition for vote. Form. Statement by and qualification of circulator.

In any case in which an action for a vote by the voters of a district is to be initiated by the petition of such voters, in addition to such other requirements as the general statutes or any special act may impose, such petition shall be on a form prescribed or approved by the clerk of such district, and each page of such petition shall contain a statement, signed under penalties of false statement, by the person who circulated the same, setting forth such circulator's name and address, and stating that each person whose name appears on said page signed the same in person in the presence of such circulator, that the circulator either knows each such signer or that the signer satisfactorily identified himself to the circulator and that all the signatures on said page were obtained not earlier than six months prior to the filing of said petition. Any page of a petition which does not contain such a statement by the circulator shall be invalid. Any circulator who makes a false statement in the statement hereinbefore provided shall be subject to the penalty provided for false statement. No petition shall be valid for any action for a vote by the voters at any regular or special district meeting unless such petition shall be circulated by a person resident or eligible to vote in such district.
(P.A. 82-213, S. 3.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts › Section 7-328a. - Home rule action.

(a) Any district, as defined by section 7-324, established by special act may, by a two-thirds vote of the voters present at a district meeting, elect to make its charter, including any amendments thereto adopted by special act, subject to amendment by home rule action as hereinafter provided, but no home rule charter amendment shall be adopted which will grant to the district any authority exceeding that granted to districts under this chapter.
(b) A home rule charter amendment shall be initiated by a two-thirds vote of the entire membership of the board of directors or other governing body of the district, or by a petition filed with the clerk of the district for submission to the governing body and signed by not less than ten per cent of the voters of the district. Upon the filing of such petition the clerk shall determine its sufficiency by comparing the signatures thereon with the names of the voters of the district and shall certify its sufficiency or insufficiency to the governing body.
(c) The provisions of sections 7-189, 7-190 and 7-191 shall apply to home rule charter amendments by districts; provided “appointing authority” means the board of directors or other governing body, “electors of the town, city or borough” means voters of a district, “election” means a district meeting, and “town or city clerk” means the district clerk.
(1963, P.A. 582, S. 1–3; P.A. 14-122, S. 70.)
History: P.A. 14-122 made technical changes in Subsec. (c).
Section does not give a fire district authority to extend its geographical limits. 28 CS 413.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts › Section 7-328b. - District may exempt motor vehicles from property tax.

Any district established in accordance with the provisions of this chapter may by vote of its legislative body provide that motor vehicles shall be exempt from any tax levied by such district on the assessed value of personal property.
(P.A. 79-542, S. 1.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts › Section 7-328c. - Districts established in 1839.

Notwithstanding the provisions of any special act or sections 7-324 to 7-329, inclusive, any district established in 1839 by special act may, by majority of the voters present at the annual meeting or any special meeting of the district called in accordance with the provisions of such special act, provide for the following: (1) An increase in the number of commissioners from three to five, (2) voting by voting tabulator from six o'clock a.m. to eight o'clock p.m. for an annual or special meeting, and (3) notice, in writing, by a person intending to run for commissioner to the clerk of the city or town in which such district is located of such person's intent to run not later than thirty days prior to such meeting. Such clerk shall publish the names of each such candidate and a description of any issue to be placed on the ballot of such meeting in a newspaper having a general circulation in such city or town, not later than fifteen days prior to such meeting.
(P.A. 03-256, S. 1; P.A. 11-20, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 03-256 effective June 26, 2003; pursuant to P.A. 11-20, “machine” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “tabulator” in Subdiv. (2), effective May 24, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts › Section 7-329. - Termination of district.

Whenever the officers of such district vote to terminate its corporate existence and whenever a petition signed by ten per cent of the total number of persons qualified to vote in the meeting of such district or twenty of the voters of such district, whichever is less, applying for a special meeting to vote on the termination of the district is received by the clerk, the clerk shall call a special meeting of the voters residing within such district, the notice of which shall be signed by the officers thereof, by advertising the same in the same manner as is provided in section 7-325. Not later than twenty-four hours before any such meeting, two hundred or more voters or ten per cent of the total number of voters, whichever is less, may petition the clerk of the district, in writing, that a referendum on the question of whether the district should be terminated be held in the manner provided in section 7-327. If, at such meeting, a two-thirds majority of the voters present vote to terminate the corporate existence of the district, or, if a referendum is held, two-thirds of the voters casting votes in such referendum vote to terminate the corporate existence of the district, the officers shall proceed to terminate the affairs of such district. The district shall pay all outstanding indebtedness and turn over the balance of the assets of such district to the town in which the district is located, if the legislative body of the town authorizes such action. No district shall be terminated under this section until all of its outstanding indebtedness is paid unless the legislative body of the town in which the district is located agrees in writing to assume such indebtedness. On completion of the duties of the officers of such district, the clerk shall cause a certificate of the vote of such meeting to be recorded in the land records of the town in which the district is located and the clerk shall notify the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management.
(1949 Rev., S. 766; 1955, S. 342d; 1957, P.A. 465, S. 17 (h); P.A. 82-213, S. 4; P.A. 83-502, S. 3, 4; P.A. 84-318, S. 3, 4; P.A. 85-613, S. 80, 154; P.A. 89-370, S. 9, 15.)
History: P.A. 82-213 provided for a petition by the voters on the question of termination and required termination upon simple majority vote rather than two-thirds majority vote; P.A. 83-502 provided that a two-thirds vote would be necessary for termination of a district; P.A. 84-318 removed the requirement of posting of the notice and provided for notification of termination to the secretary of the office of policy and management; P.A. 85-613 made technical changes; P.A. 89-370 authorized holding of referendum and added provision requiring payment of district's outstanding indebtedness prior to termination unless legislative body agrees to assume such indebtedness.
Cited. 208 C. 543.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts › Section 7-329a. - Establishment of port district and port authority. Jurisdiction.

Any town may, by vote of its legislative body, establish a port district which shall embrace such town. The affairs of any such district shall be administered by a port authority, comprising not fewer than five nor more than seven members. The members of any such authority shall be appointed by the chief executive of the town and shall serve for such term as the legislative body may prescribe and until their successors are appointed and have qualified. Vacancies shall be filled by the chief executive for the unexpired portion of the term. The members of each such board shall serve without compensation, except for necessary expenses. The jurisdiction of a port authority shall not extend to matters relating to the licensure of pilots, the safe conduct of vessels, the protection of the ports and waters of the state and all other matters set forth in chapter 263 which are under the authority of the Department of Transportation. In addition the jurisdiction of a port authority shall not extend to matters relating to (1) a solid waste facility, as defined in subdivision (4) of section 22a-207, (2) a recycling facility, as defined in subdivision (8) of section 22a-207, (3) the building of a paper mill or a paper recycling facility, or (4) the Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority.
(1967, P.A. 900, S. 1; P.A. 98-240, S. 1; P.A. 09-186, S. 7; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3, S. 85; P.A. 14-94, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 98-240 added jurisdictional limitations of a port authority; P.A. 09-186 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and added Subsec. (b) prohibiting town from terminating or reorganizing port district or authority, modifying duties or powers of port authority or modifying property included in port district, without written consent of Commissioner of Transportation, effective July 20, 2009; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3 deleted Subsec. (b) and made a conforming change, effective September 9, 2009; pursuant to P.A. 14-94, “Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority”, effective June 6, 2014.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts › Section 7-329b. - Definitions.

As used in sections 7-329a to 7-329u, inclusive:
(1) “District” means a port district established pursuant to section 7-329a, or if any such district is terminated, the entity accorded the powers and duties of sections 7-329a to 7-329u, inclusive;
(2) “Project” means the acquisition, purchase, construction, reconstruction, improvement or extension of a port facility;
(3) “Port authority” means the Bridgeport Port Authority, the New London Port Authority and the New Haven Port Authority created pursuant to sections 7-329a to 7-329u, inclusive, or if any such port authority is terminated, then the successor entity of such port authority accorded the powers and duties of said sections 7-329a to 7-329u, inclusive; and
(4) “Port facilities” means (A) wharves, docks, piers, vessels, air or bus terminals, railroad tracks or terminals, cold storage and refrigerating plants, warehouses, elevators, freight-handling machinery and such equipment as is used in the handling of freight, passengers and vessels, vehicles, and the establishment and operation of a port and any other works, vessels, vehicles, rolling stock, properties, buildings, structures or other facilities necessary or desirable for commerce and industry or waterfront development within a district or in connection with the development and operation of port facilities, or (B) manufacturing and industrial facilities, recreational and entertainment facilities, residential facilities or other commercial facilities necessary for commerce and industry or waterfront development within a district, and (C) located within or benefiting the district.
(1967, P.A. 900, S. 2; P.A. 98-240, S. 2; P.A. 01-143, S. 7, 8; P.A. 02-42, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 98-240 redefined “district”, “project”, “port authority” and amended definition of “port facilities” to include types of commercial facilities located within the geographic boundaries of the district; P.A. 01-143 amended Subdiv. (4)(C) by changing “the geographic boundaries of” to “or benefiting”, effective July 6, 2001; P.A. 02-42 redefined “port authority” to include the New Haven Port Authority in Subdiv. (3), effective May 6, 2002.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts › Section 7-329d. - Regulations by port authority.

Each port authority may make and enforce any reasonable regulations that it may determine to be necessary for the proper development, maintenance and use of the port facilities, relating to the construction, equipment, repair, maintenance, use and rental of any dock, wharf, slip, bus or air terminal, rail tracks or terminal or warehouse or other port authority owned or leased by any individual or corporation within the port facility and may operate and maintain a foreign trade zone, as permitted pursuant to the federal Foreign-Trade Zone Act of 1934, 19 USC Sections 81a to 81u, inclusive, as from time to time amended.
(1967, P.A. 900, S. 4; P.A. 98-240, S. 4; P.A. 00-148, S. 3.)
History: P.A. 98-240 changed “authority” to “port authority”; P.A. 00-148 made technical changes and added a provision allowing a port authority to operate a foreign trade zone.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts › Section 7-329e. - Investigations.

Each port authority may make any investigation which it may deem necessary to enable it effectually to carry out the provisions of sections 7-329a to 7-329f, inclusive. The port authority may enter upon any lands as in its judgment may be necessary for the purpose of making surveys and examinations to accomplish any purpose authorized by said sections.
(1967, P.A. 900, S. 5; P.A. 98-240, S. 5.)
History: P.A. 98-240 changed “authority” to “port authority”.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts › Section 7-329f. - Property necessary for development.

The port authority may lease or acquire title to real and personal property, may encumber and pledge such property and may condemn real property located within the district which it deems necessary for the development of port facilities in the district, subject to the provisions of section 48-12.
(1967, P.A. 900, S. 6; P.A. 98-240, S. 6.)
History: P.A. 98-240 changed “authority” to “port authority” and provided power to encumber and pledge real and personal property.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts › Section 7-329h. - Securing of bonds.

In the discretion of the port authority any bonds issued under the provisions of sections 7-329a to 7-329u, inclusive, may be secured by a trust indenture by way of conveyance, deed of trust or mortgage of any project or any other property of the port authority, whether or not financed in whole or in part from the proceeds of such bonds, or by a trust agreement by and between the port authority and a corporate trustee, which may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company within or without the state or by both such conveyance, deed of trust or mortgage and indenture or trust agreement. Such trust indenture or agreement may pledge or assign any or all fees, rents and other charges to be received or proceeds of any contract or contracts pledged, and may convey or mortgage any property of the port authority. Such trust indenture or agreement may contain such provisions for protecting and enforcing the rights and remedies of the bondholders as may be reasonable and proper and not in violation of law, including provisions which have been specifically authorized to be included in any resolution or resolutions of the port authority authorizing the issue of bonds. Any bank or trust company incorporated under the laws of the state may act as depository of the proceeds of such bonds or of revenues or other moneys and may furnish such indemnifying bonds or pledge such securities as may be required by the port authority. Such trust indenture may set forth the rights and remedies of the bondholders and of the trustee, and may restrict the individual right of action by bondholders. In addition to the foregoing, such trust indenture or agreement may contain such other provisions as the port authority may deem reasonable and proper for the security of the bondholders. All expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of such trust indenture or agreement may be treated as a part of the cost of a project.
(P.A. 98-240, S. 8.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts › Section 7-329j. - Receipts to be trust funds.

All moneys received pursuant to the authority of sections 7-329a to 7-329u, inclusive, whether as proceeds from the sale of bonds or as revenues, shall be deemed to be trust funds to be held and applied solely as provided in said sections 7-329a to 7-329u, inclusive.
(P.A. 98-240, S. 10.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts › Section 7-329k. - Rights of bondholders.

Any holder of bonds, notes, certificates or other evidences of borrowing issued under the provisions of sections 7-329a to 7-329u, inclusive, or of any of the coupons appertaining thereto, and the trustee under any trust indenture or agreement, except to the extent the rights herein given may be restricted by such trust indenture or agreement, may, either at law or in equity, by suit, action, injunction, mandamus or other proceedings, protect and enforce any and all rights under the provisions of the general statutes or granted by said sections or under such trust indenture or agreement or the resolution authorizing the issuance of such bonds, notes or certificates, and may enforce and compel the performance of all duties required by said sections or by such trust indenture or agreement or resolution to be performed by the port authority or by any officer or agent thereof, including the fixing, charging and collection of fees, rents and other charges.
(P.A. 98-240, S. 11.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts › Section 7-329l. - Tax exemption.

The exercise of the powers granted by sections 7-329a to 7-329u, inclusive, shall be in all respects for the benefit of the inhabitants of the state, for the increase of their commerce and for the promotion of their safety, health, welfare, convenience and prosperity, and as the operation and maintenance of any project which the port authority is authorized to undertake constitute the performance of an essential governmental function, no port authority shall be required to pay any taxes or assessments upon any project acquired and constructed by it under the provisions of said sections; and the bonds, notes, certificates or other evidences of debt issued under the provisions of said sections, their transfer and the income therefrom, including any profit made on the sale thereof, shall at all times be free and exempt from taxation by the state and by any political subdivision thereof.
(P.A. 98-240, S. 12.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts › Section 7-329m. - Bonds to be legal investments.

Bonds issued by the port authority under the provisions of sections 7-329a to 7-329u, inclusive, shall be securities in which all public officers and public bodies of the state and its political subdivisions, all insurance companies, trust companies, banking associations, investment companies and executors, administrators, trustees and other fiduciaries may properly and legally invest funds, including capital in their control or belonging to them. Such bonds shall be securities which may properly and legally be deposited with and received by any state or municipal officer or any agency or political subdivision of the state for any purpose for which the deposit of bonds or obligations is now or may hereafter be authorized by law.
(P.A. 98-240, S. 13.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts › Section 7-329n. - Municipal powers to aid port authority.

For the purpose of aiding a port authority and cooperating in the planning, undertaking, acquisition, construction or operation of any port facility, any municipality may (1) acquire real property in its name for such port facility or for the widening of existing roads, streets, parkways, avenues or highways or for new roads, streets, parkways, avenues or highways to any such port facility, or partly for such purposes and partly for other municipal purposes, by purchase or condemnation in the manner provided by law for the acquisition of real property by such municipality, (2) furnish, dedicate, close, vacate, pave, install, grade, regrade, plan or replan parks, streets, roads, roadways, alleys, sidewalks or other places which it is otherwise empowered to undertake, and (3) do any and all things necessary or convenient to aid and cooperate in the planning, undertaking, construction or operation of any such port facility, and cause services to be furnished to the port authority of any character which such municipality is otherwise empowered to furnish, and to incur the entire expense thereof.
(P.A. 98-240, S. 14.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts › Section 7-329o. - Provision of property to port authority.

Any municipality, by ordinance, and any other governmental unit is empowered, without any referendum or public or competitive bidding, and any person is empowered, to sell, lease, lend, grant or convey to any port authority, or to permit a port authority to use, maintain or operate as part of any port facility, any real or personal property which may be necessary or useful and convenient for the purposes of the port authority and accepted by the port authority. Any such sale, lease, loan, grant, conveyance or permit may be made or given with or without consideration and for a specified or an unlimited period of time and under any agreement and on any terms and conditions which may be approved by such municipality, governmental unit or person and which may be agreed to by the port authority in conformity with its contracts with the holders of any bonds. Subject to any such contracts with the holders of bonds, the port authority may enter into and perform any and all agreements with respect to property so purchased, leased, borrowed, received or accepted by it, including agreements for the assumption of principal or interest or both of indebtedness of such municipality, governmental unit or person or of any mortgage or lien existing with respect to such property or for the operation and maintenance of such property as part of any port facility.
(P.A. 98-240, S. 15.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts › Section 7-329p. - Lease of facilities.

Any municipality, governmental unit or person is empowered to enter into and perform any lease or other agreement with any port authority for the lease to or use by such municipality, governmental unit or person of all or any part of any port facility or facilities. Any such lease or other agreement may provide for the payment to the port authority by such municipality, governmental unit or person, annually or otherwise, of such sum or sums of money, computed at fixed amounts or by any formula or in any other manner, as may be so fixed or computed. Any such lease or other agreement may be made and entered into for a term beginning currently or at some future or contingent date and with or without consideration and for a specified or unlimited time and on any terms and conditions which may be approved by such municipality, governmental unit or person and which may be agreed to by the port authority in conformity with its contracts with the holders of any bonds, and shall be valid and binding on such municipality, governmental unit or person whether or not an appropriation is made thereby prior to authorization or execution of such lease or other agreement. Such municipality, governmental unit or person shall do all acts and things necessary, convenient or desirable to carry out and perform any such lease or other agreement entered into by it and to provide for the payment or discharge of any obligation thereunder in the same manner as other obligations of such municipality, governmental unit or person.
(P.A. 98-240, S. 16.)