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2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-296. - Reserve fund of police department.

There shall be in each city a fund to be known as the “reserve fund of the police department” and said fund shall consist of: (1) All property specially devised or given for the benefit of disabled policemen and all property given to the department on account of service rendered; (2) all lost or abandoned money, in charge of the board of police commissioners or police committee of such city, and all moneys arising from the sale of abandoned or lost property, in charge of such board, available for the purpose by the laws of the state; (3) all rewards, fees, gifts, testimonials and emoluments presented to any member of the police force on account of special services, except such as are allowed by such board or committee to be retained by such member, and all moneys collected from members of the police force by way of fines or forfeiture of pay imposed or ordered by such board and all money deducted or withheld from the pay of members of the police force on account of lost time; (4) the income and interest from all property and moneys belonging to said fund, and (5) such moneys as are from time to time appropriated for that purpose by the common council of such city. The board of police commissioners or the police committee shall be a board of trustees of the reserve fund and the treasurer of the city shall be the treasurer of said fund. The president of such board or committee shall be president of such board of trustees and shall draw all orders upon said fund, which shall be countersigned by the secretary of such board of trustees, who shall be designated by the board. The secretary shall keep a record of the proceedings of the board of trustees and of all action taken by it with regard to said fund. The board of trustees shall have general charge of said fund and may, by a majority vote, direct the treasurer to invest any portion of the same in any securities authorized by the laws of the state as investments for trust funds or to deposit the same or any portion thereof in any of the savings banks of the state. The board of trustees shall report to the common council yearly the condition of the reserve fund, with the items of all the receipts and disbursements on account of the same. If the reserve fund is found at any time insufficient to meet all requirements upon it, the common council, upon application of the board of trustees, may make an appropriation to make good such deficiency, and any prospective deficiency in said fund may be provided for by the common council in its annual appropriation for the police department.
(1949 Rev., S. 905; P.A. 75-530, S. 22, 35.)
History: P.A. 75-530 deleted references to unclaimed or stolen money or property.
See Sec. 7-285 re sales of unclaimed goods by police departments.
See Sec. 50-14 re disposition of lost goods after expiration of time for making claim.
Does not prohibit by implication deductions from pay of policemen. 137 C. 43.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-298. - Removal of policemen not restricted.

Nothing in this part shall be construed as limiting the power of removal of policemen vested in the board of police commissioners or police committee by the charter of any city, except that no member of the retired list shall be removed until he has had an opportunity to be heard in his own behalf before such board or committee. Such board or committee may, at its discretion, order any member on the retired list to be examined or reexamined by the surgeon of the department or by a board of surgeons to be designated by such board or committee, and, if such member is reported capable of performing duty, such board or committee may, by the affirmative vote of a majority of the whole number of its members, with the approval of the mayor, restore such member to either the regular or veteran reserve force and may, in like manner, transfer any member of the veteran reserve to the regular force.
(1949 Rev., S. 907.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-299. - City ordinances.

Each city shall have authority, by ordinance, to make regulations, not inconsistent herewith, for giving full effect to the provisions of this part.
(1949 Rev., S. 908; 1963, P.A. 642, S. 6.)
History: 1963 act substituted word “part” for “chapter”.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-300. - Establishment of funds in towns and boroughs.

In any town or borough which has established a police reserve fund under the provisions of this part, the powers and duties vested in and imposed upon the mayor or common council of a city shall, in the case of a town, be vested in and imposed upon the board of selectmen thereof, and, in the case of a borough, be vested in and imposed upon the warden or burgesses thereof, except that, in the case of a borough or a town, all appropriations shall be made by the body authorized to make appropriations therein.
(1949 Rev., S. 909.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-301. - Establishment of fire department.

Any town may provide by ordinance for the protection of property within its limits from fire and for the establishment of a town fire department and for the management, discipline and control thereof by the board of selectmen or, if there is a town council, by the town council, or by a board of fire commissioners of such number, chosen in such manner and for such terms as the ordinance provides. The board of selectmen, town council or board of fire commissioners may make regulations for the conduct of the fire department and may appoint, discipline and remove for cause shown all employees of the department and purchase supplies and equipment necessary for its operation; provided, if the ordinance so provides, the board of selectmen, town council or board of fire commissioners shall enter into an agreement with any volunteer fire company or companies within the town for the protection thereof from fire on such conditions as to financial assistance and the observance of the regulations of the board of selectmen, town council or board of fire commissioners as such ordinance prescribes; and provided no town fire department established under the provisions of this section shall supersede any volunteer fire company which is the owner of any building, fire apparatus or other property without having first come to an agreement with such company with regard to the disposition of and compensation for such building, apparatus or other property. Such town may, at any meeting specially warned for the purpose, make appropriations and lay taxes for the support thereof; but this section shall not be operative within the limits of any city, borough or incorporated fire district which has an established fire department. Nothing in this section shall prevent any town, city, borough or incorporated fire district from appropriating funds to a volunteer fire company or companies for services rendered or to be rendered within the confines of such town, city, borough or district by such fire company or companies, provided such town, city, borough or incorporated fire district shall deem it in the public interest to do so.
(1949 Rev., S. 677; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 18; 1959, P.A. 606, S. 1.)
History: 1959 act added provision protecting town's, city's or borough's power to appropriate funds to volunteer fire companies for services.
See Sec. 29-297 re appointment of local fire marshals and deputies.
Firemen perform governmental acts and municipality is not liable for their negligence. 38 C. 368, see also 80 C. 386. Cited. 196 C. 192.
Section does not prohibit a municipal fire department established by a municipal charter from superseding volunteer fire companies because section pertains only to fire departments established by ordinance and not ones established by municipal charters. 159 CA 708.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-302. - Hearing prior to dismissal of fire department head. Appeal.

No active head of any fire department of any town, city or borough shall be dismissed unless he has been given notice in writing of the specific grounds for such dismissal and an opportunity to be heard in his own defense, personally or by counsel, at a public hearing before the authority having the power of dismissal. Such public hearing, unless otherwise specified by charter, shall be held not less than five nor more than ten days after such notice. Any person so dismissed may appeal within thirty days following such dismissal to the superior court for the judicial district in which such town, city or borough is located. Service shall be made as in civil process. Said court shall review the record of such hearing, and, if it appears upon the hearing upon the appeal that testimony is necessary for an equitable disposition of the appeal, it may take evidence or appoint a referee or a committee to take such evidence as it directs and report the same to the court with his or its findings of fact, which report shall constitute a part of the proceedings upon which the determination of the court shall be made. The court, upon such appeal, and after a hearing thereon, may affirm the action of such authority, or may set the same aside if it finds that such authority acted illegally or arbitrarily, or in the abuse of its discretion, or with bad faith or malice.
(1949, 1951, 1955, S. 425d; P.A. 76-436, S. 289, 681; P.A. 78-280, S. 1, 127.)
History: P.A. 76-436 substituted superior court for court of common pleas and added judicial district reference, effective July 1, 1978; P.A. 78-280 deleted reference to counties.
Cited. 209 C. 352.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-303. - “Municipality”, “work” and “duty” defined.

The following words as used in sections 7-303 to 7-306, inclusive, shall have the following meanings: “Municipality” includes each town, consolidated town and city, consolidated town and borough, school district, fire, sewer and other district, improvement association or any other political subdivision of the state upon which is placed, or which has assumed, the duty of extinguishing fires and protecting its inhabitants from loss by fire. “Work” or “duty” includes the time spent and duties performed while at fires, answering alarms, returning from fires, attending fire drills or classes, conducting tests or trials of any of the apparatus or equipment normally used by a fire department, instructing or being instructed in fire duties, and any other duty which is ordered to be performed by a superior or commanding officer in the fire department.
(1949, S. 426d.)
Legislature may enact laws relative to hours of service of firemen without infringing on municipality's right of home rule or local self-government. 149 C. 528.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-304. - Participation of municipalities.

(a) Any municipality may by ordinance adopt an average work week of fifty-six hours for permanent paid fire personnel as provided in sections 7-303 to 7-306, inclusive.
(b) The legislative body of such municipality may, by ordinance, or shall, upon petition of electors of such municipality in number not less than five per cent of the total number of electors on the last-completed registry list, submit the question of adopting the provisions of said sections in the fire department of such municipality to a vote of the electors thereof at the next general election or at a special election or meeting called for such purpose. Any such petition shall contain the ordinance to be voted upon by the electors. Such election or meeting shall be called and held, and the vote on the question canvassed and the result determined and certified, as nearly as may be in accordance with the provisions of the laws governing the election of civil officers therein. The notice or warning for such election or meeting shall state that a purpose of such election or meeting is to ascertain whether or not such municipality shall adopt an average work week of fifty-six hours for permanent paid fire personnel and that such election or meeting is called under the provisions of this section. The vote on such question shall be taken by a “YES” and “NO” vote on the voting tabulator, and the voting tabulator ballot, which shall bear the words “Shall a fifty-six hour work week for permanent paid fire personnel be adopted?”, shall be provided in accordance with the provisions of section 9-250. If, upon the official determination of the result of such vote, it appears that a majority of those voting on the question are in favor of the adoption of the provisions of sections 7-303 to 7-306, inclusive, said sections shall take effect as to such municipality no later than ninety days thereafter, provided, when the fiscal year of any such municipality begins within ninety days thereafter, the effective date for such municipality shall be no later than the first day of the fiscal year next following the expiration of the ninety-day period.
(1949, S. 427d; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 49; February, 1965, P.A. 574, S. 4; P.A. 86-170, S. 6, 13; P.A. 11-20, S. 1.)
History: 1965 act deleted obsolete reference to Sec. 7-307, substituting Sec. 7-306; P.A. 86-170 required that designation on ballot label be in form of question and substituted term “fire personnel” for “firemen”; pursuant to P.A. 11-20, “machine” and “ballot label” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “tabulator” and “ballot”, respectively, in Subsec. (b), effective May 24, 2011.
Does not permit adoption of average work week of fewer than 56 hours. 149 C. 528.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-305. - Work week.

The work week for all permanent paid members of the uniformed firefighter force for municipalities adopting sections 7-303 to 7-306, inclusive, shall be an average work week of not more than fifty-six hours, computed over a period of one fiscal or calendar year, as the municipality elects; provided, unless otherwise prescribed by regulation or ordinance, any time spent in an emergency in excess of any regularly assigned or scheduled work week in connection with any actual fire or conflagration, including time spent going to, working at or returning from any actual fire, or any other work or duty classified as an act of mercy shall not be included in computing such average work week.
(1949, S. 428d; February, 1965, P.A. 574, S. 5.)
History: 1965 act deleted obsolete reference to Sec. 7-307, substituting reference to Sec. 7-306.
Must be read in conjunction with Sec. 7-304 and does not permit adoption of average work week of fewer than 56 hours. 149 C. 528. Cited. 196 C. 192.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-306. - Earnings.

There shall be no diminution in the weekly earnings of the employees concerned, nor shall there be any lessening of any of their existing rights and privileges, as the result of the adoption of the work week provided in sections 7-303 to 7-306, inclusive.
(1949, S. 429d; February, 1965, P.A. 574, S. 6.)
History: 1965 act deleted obsolete reference to Sec. 7-307, substituting reference to Sec. 7-306.
Cited. 149 C. 527; 196 C. 192.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-310. - Operation of fire equipment in and provision of personnel and assistance to other municipality.

Any city, town, borough, fire district, independent fire department or independent fire company may locate, use, man and operate fire stations, fire apparatus, ambulances, rescue trucks, radio and fire-alarm systems and other fire equipment and provide personnel and other assistance for the investigation of the cause and origin of fires, in any other city, town, borough or fire district, upon such terms respecting the location, use, management and operation as may be mutually agreed upon between the boards of fire commissioners or other persons having the management and control of the fire departments or fire companies. Any officer or member of a fire department or fire company while operating outside the jurisdictional limits of his fire department or fire company in accord with such an agreement shall have the same rights, privileges and immunities that are granted him when operating within the jurisdictional limits of his fire department or fire company.
(1949 Rev., S. 679; 1963, P.A. 136; P.A. 73-58.)
History: 1963 act extended section to independent fire departments or companies, included ambulances, rescue trucks, radio systems and other fire equipment and extended rights, privileges and immunities to firemen operating outside their jurisdiction in accord with agreement; P.A. 73-58 added provision re investigations of fires.
Cited. 140 C. 414; 196 C. 192.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-310a. - Municipal and volunteer fire department fire apparatus inspection, maintenance and testing requirements.

Each municipal and volunteer fire department shall maintain (1) the pump and aerial components of such department's fire apparatus in compliance with the inspection, maintenance and testing requirements of standard 1911 of the National Fire Protection Association, and (2) such fire department's apparatus in compliance with the requirements of 49 CFR 393, Subparts A to E, inclusive, G and J, as amended from time to time, 49 CFR 396.1 to 396.25, inclusive, as amended from time to time, and 49 CFR Chapter III, Subchapter B, Appendix G, as amended from time to time.
(P.A. 17-175, S. 1.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-311. - Liability for delay in reporting fire or other emergency.

No person, corporation, partnership or association which is authorized by any town, city or borough fire department or by any volunteer fire company to receive any report of fire or other emergency, including but not limited to requests for an ambulance or rescue equipment and which agrees to receive and transmit such report to such fire department, volunteer fire company or other appropriate municipal agency or department shall be liable in any civil action for damage to persons or property caused by delay in reporting such fire or other such emergency, unless such delay is the result of the gross negligence of such person, corporation, partnership or association.
(1953, S. 267d; P.A. 80-140.)
History: P.A. 80-140 added reports of other emergencies, including requests for ambulance or rescue equipment to provisions of section.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-312. - Liability as to use of water holes.

Any municipality, as defined in section 7-314, or any property owner on behalf of any such municipality, may construct or maintain open water holes for the purpose of providing fire protection for such municipality, and no such municipality or property owner shall incur any liability as a result of injury to any person arising out of the maintenance of such water hole, provided such water hole has been approved by the fire-fighting organization and the municipality within whose jurisdiction such water hole is situated and provided such approval has been communicated, in writing, to the property owner on whose premises such water hole is situated.
(1953, S. 268d.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-313b. - Authority of fire department officer to order removal of persons.

Section 7-313b is repealed, effective October 1, 2012.
(1961, P.A. 131; P.A. 77-614, S. 486, 610; P.A. 12-80, S. 193.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-313c. - Indemnification for educational expenses.

(a) Any town, city or borough subject to the approval of its legislative body, shall indemnify any paid or volunteer member of its fire department who, after October 1, 1969, has commenced and has successfully completed a course or courses in fire technology and administration offered by the state regional community-technical colleges. Such indemnification shall be limited to expenses incurred by such member for tuition and textbook charges.
(b) This section shall not apply to any member of a fire department of a town, city or borough receiving educational benefits from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs or any Connecticut fire department association.
(1969, P.A. 703, S. 1, 2; P.A. 89-260, S. 6, 41; P.A. 92-126, S. 39, 48; P.A. 18-72, S. 19.)
History: P.A. 89-260 in Subsec. (a) substituted “regional technical colleges” for “state technical colleges”; P.A. 92-126 changed a reference to technical colleges to community-technical colleges in Subsec. (a); P.A. 18-72 amended Subsec. (b) to replace “Veterans' Administration” with “United States Department of Veterans Affairs”.
Cited. 196 C. 192.
Cited. 44 CS 230.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-313d. - Local fire department's authority to inspect state facilities.

Each local fire department or company shall have the authority to annually inspect, for fire protection purposes, any building or facility owned, operated or leased by the state and located within the jurisdiction of such local fire department or company. In the event of structural modification of such building or facility or the addition, removal or relocation of fire protection devices or equipment within, or in the immediate vicinity of, such building or facility, such local fire department or company shall be given written notice of such alteration within ten days after its completion by the person in charge of such building or facility, and shall have the authority to inspect such building or facility within thirty days after receipt of such notice, notwithstanding the fact that it may have already made its annual inspection of such building or facility.
(P.A. 75-307, S. 1, 2.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-313e. - Authority of fire officer during emergency.

Notwithstanding any provision in the general statutes or a municipal ordinance to the contrary, the fire chief of the municipality, or any member serving in the capacity of fire officer-in-charge, shall, when any fire department or company is responding to or operating at a fire, service call, or other emergency, within such municipality, have the authority to: (a) Control and direct emergency activities at such scene; (b) order any person to leave any building or place in the vicinity of such fire for the purpose of protecting such person from injury; (c) blockade any public highway, street, or private right-of-way temporarily while at such scene; (d) at any time of the day or night, enter any building, including a private dwelling, or upon any premises where a fire is in progress or near the scene of any fire, or where there is reasonable cause to believe a fire is in progress, for the purpose of extinguishing the fire or preventing its spread; (e) inspect for the purposes of preventing fires and preplanning the control of fire all buildings, structures or other places in their fire district, except the interior of private dwellings, where any combustible material, including but not limited to waste paper, rags, shavings, waste, leather, rubber, crates, boxes, barrels or rubbish, that is or may become dangerous as a fire menace to such buildings, structures or other places has been allowed to accumulate or where such chief or his designated representative has reason to believe that such material has accumulated or is liable to be accumulated; (f) order disengagement or discouplement of any convoy, caravan or train of vehicles, craft or railway cars for the purpose of extinguishing a fire or preventing its spread; and (g) take command of any industrial fire brigade or fire chief when such fire company or department has been called to such industry.
(P.A. 75-599; P.A. 77-232.)
History: P.A. 77-232 clarified authority of fire officers, extending authority to time when responding to call and including emergencies and service calls as well as fire, deleting authority to trespass without liability and adding authority to make inspections and to order disbanding of convoys, caravans etc.
Cited. 24 CA 598.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-313f. - Authority of fire chiefs at certain state facilities.

Notwithstanding section 7-313e or any other provision of the general statutes, or any provision of a municipal ordinance, the fire chief of the fire department at The University of Connecticut at Storrs, The University of Connecticut Health Center or the Southbury Training School, or any member of such department serving in the capacity of fire officer-in-charge, shall, whenever any fire department or company is responding to or operating at a fire, service call or other emergency at said university, health center or training school, (1) control and direct emergency activities at such scene, (2) order any person to leave any building or place in the vicinity of such fire, service call or emergency for the purpose of protecting such person from injury, and (3) have all other authority provided to a fire chief or fire officer-in-charge pursuant to section 7-313e.
(P.A. 13-145, S. 1.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-313g. - “Firefighter” defined.

For purposes of this section and sections 3-123, 7-313h to 7-313k inclusive, and 29-303, “firefighter” shall include any (1) local fire marshal, deputy fire marshal, fire investigator, fire inspector and such other classes of inspectors and investigators for whom the State Fire Marshal and the Codes and Standards Committee, acting jointly, have adopted minimum standards of qualification pursuant to section 29-298; and (2) uniformed member of a paid municipal, state or volunteer fire department.
(P.A. 16-10, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 16-10 effective February 1, 2017.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-313h. - Firefighters cancer relief account.

(a) There is established an account to be known as the “firefighters cancer relief account” which shall be a separate, nonlapsing account within the General Fund. The account shall contain any moneys required by law to be deposited in the account. Moneys in the account shall be expended by the cancer relief subcommittee of the Connecticut State Firefighters Association, established pursuant to section 7-313i, for the purposes of providing wage replacement benefits to firefighters who are diagnosed with a condition of cancer described in section 7-313j.
(b) The State Treasurer shall invest the moneys deposited in the firefighters cancer relief account in a manner reasonable and appropriate to achieve the objectives of such account, exercising the discretion and care of a prudent person in similar circumstances with similar objectives. The State Treasurer shall give due consideration to rate of return, risk, term or maturity, diversification of the total portfolio within such account, liquidity, the projected disbursements and expenditures, and the expected payments, deposits, contributions and gifts to be received. The moneys in such account shall be continuously invested and reinvested in a manner consistent with the objectives of such account until disbursed in accordance with section 3-123 and section 7-313i.
(c) The moneys in the firefighters cancer relief account shall be used solely for the purposes of providing wage replacement benefits to firefighters who are diagnosed with a condition of cancer described in section 7-313j and to fund the expenses of administering the firefighters cancer relief program established pursuant to section 7-313j.
(P.A. 16-10, S. 3; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 219.)
History: P.A. 16-10 effective February 1, 2017; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 amended Subsec. (a) to delete reference to moneys deposited pursuant to Sec. 16-256g, effective October 31, 2017.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-313k. - Annual report re firefighters cancer relief account and firefighters cancer relief program.

Not later than January 1, 2018, and annually thereafter, the State Treasurer, in consultation with the Connecticut State Firefighters Association, shall submit a report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to public safety on the status of the firefighters cancer relief account established pursuant to section 7-313h and the firefighters cancer relief program established pursuant to section 7-313j. Such report shall include (1) the balance of the account, (2) the projected and actual participation in the program, and (3) the demographic information of each firefighter who receives benefits pursuant to such program, including gender, age, town of residence and income level.
(P.A. 16-10, S. 6.)
History: P.A. 16-10 effective February 1, 2017.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-313l. - Firefighter training on resilience and self-care techniques.

In consultation with the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, the Commission on Fire Prevention and Control, the State Fire Marshal and the Codes and Standards Committee and any other state or municipal entity providing training to a firefighter, as defined in section 31-294k, shall provide resilience and self-care technique training for any individual who begins initial training as a firefighter on or after January 1, 2020.
(P.A. 19-17, S. 10.)
History: P.A. 19-17 effective July 1, 2019.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-313m. - Grants to distressed municipalities for volunteer firefighter training.

(a) Not later than January 1, 2022, and annually thereafter, the chief of a volunteer fire department for a distressed municipality, as defined in section 32-9p, shall submit to the State Fire Administrator a report on the yearly average of the number of volunteer firefighters from such municipality's volunteer fire department who enrolled in Firefighter I certification and recruit training based on the preceding four years, except the year commencing January 1, 2020, shall not be included in any such four preceding years for purposes of calculating such average.
(b) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, and each fiscal year thereafter, the State Fire Administrator shall award a grant to any distressed municipality with a volunteer fire department for the purposes of covering costs related to the provision of Firefighter I certification and recruit training for volunteer firefighters at regional fire schools. The amount of such grant award for each such distressed municipality shall be equal to the product of (1) the average cost of a Firefighter I certification and recruit training program at a regional fire school, and (2) the average number of volunteer firefighters from such distressed municipality's volunteer fire department who enrolled at a regional fire school for such certification and training.
(c) Not later than February 1, 2022, and annually thereafter, the State Fire Administrator shall submit, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations and the budgets of state agencies a report on the (1) reports submitted by the chiefs of volunteer fire departments of distressed municipalities pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, and (2) average cost of a Firefighter I certification and recruit training program at a regional fire school.
(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2, S. 9.)
History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2 effective July 1, 2021.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-313n. - (Note: This section is effective January 1, 2024.) Firefighters cancer relief account. Municipal contributions.

(a) Each municipality within the state shall annually contribute, not later than December fifteenth of each year, ten dollars per firefighter within such municipality's district to the firefighters cancer relief account established pursuant to section 7-313h.
(b) Municipality contributions shall be based on the current number of career and volunteer firefighters within the municipality at the time of contribution.
(c) Municipalities shall only contribute funds for firefighters that: (1) Have submitted to annual physical examinations subsequent to entry into such service that have failed to reveal any evidence of such cancer or a propensity for such cancer; (2) have not used any cigarettes, as defined in section 12-285, or any other tobacco products, as defined in section 12-330a, within fifteen years; (3) have worked for not less than five years as (A) an interior structural firefighter at a paid municipal, state or volunteer fire department, or (B) a local fire marshal, deputy fire marshal, fire investigator, fire inspector or such other class of inspector or investigator for whom the State Fire Marshal and the Codes and Standards Committee, acting jointly, have adopted minimum standards of qualification pursuant to section 29-298.
(P.A. 22-139, S. 5.)
History: P.A. 22-139 effective January 1, 2024.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-313o. - Firefighter turnout gear. Maintenance and remediation of toxic substances.

(a) The Joint Council of Connecticut Fire Service Organizations, in consultation with the Connecticut State Firefighters Association, must come up with a joint plan for maintenance and remediation of toxic substances on turnout gear. Such plan shall be submitted to the Commission on Fire Prevention and Control by July 1, 2023. Upon approval of such plan, the commission shall advise fire departments on implementation of the plan.
(b) Within ninety days of approval by the commission, each fire department shall adopt a plan for the maintenance and remediation of toxic substances on turnout gear.
(P.A. 22-139, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 22-139 effective May 27, 2022 (Revisor's note: In Subsec. (a), a reference to “Joint Counsel of Connecticut Fire Services Organization” and a reference to “Commission of Fire Prevention and Control” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Joint Council of Connecticut Fire Service Organizations” and “Commission on Fire Prevention and Control”, respectively, for accuracy).
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-314b. - Collection of workers' compensation benefits by volunteer firefighters and members of volunteer ambulance services.

(a) Any active member of a volunteer fire company or department engaged in volunteer fire duties or any active member of an organization certified as a volunteer ambulance service in accordance with section 19a-180 may collect benefits under the provisions of chapter 568 based on the salary of his employment or the amount specified in subsection (b) of section 7-314a, whichever is greater, if said firefighter or volunteer ambulance service provider is injured while engaged in fire duties or volunteer ambulance service.
(b) As used in this section, the terms “fire duties” includes duties performed while at fires, answering alarms of fire, answering calls for mutual aid assistance, returning from calls for mutual aid assistance, at fire drills or training exercises, and directly returning from fires, “active member of a volunteer fire company or department” includes all active members of said fire company or department, fire patrol or fire and police patrol company, whether paid or not paid for their services, “ambulance service” includes answering alarms, calls for emergency medical service or directly returning from calls for the emergency situations, duties performed while performing transportation or treatment services to patients under emergency conditions, while at any location where emergency medical service is rendered, while engaged in drills or training exercises, while at tests or trials of any apparatus or equipment normally used in the performance of such medical service drills, and “active member of an organization certified as a volunteer ambulance service in accordance with section 19a-180” includes all active members of said ambulance service whether paid or not paid for their services.
(c) The provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall only apply if the volunteer firefighter or volunteer ambulance service provider is unable to perform his regular employment duties.
(P.A. 95-243, S. 2; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-8, S 85, 88; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-10, S. 5, 7.)
History: June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-8 added volunteer and municipal ambulance service members as employees, and defined the terms “ambulance service” and “active member of an organization certified as a volunteer or municipal ambulance service in accordance with section 19a-180”, effective July 1, 1997; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-10 deleted references to municipal ambulance service members as employees and in Subsec. (b) included fire drills or training exercises in definition of “fire duties”, effective July 1, 1997.
Term “fire duties” does not encompass conduct of volunteer firefighter departing firehouse to tend to his personal affairs. 180 CA 717; judgment affirmed, see 332 C. 93.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-314c. - Assumption of liability by the state for volunteer firefighters.

The liability of a municipality shall not be affected by the implementation of sections 7-314a and 7-314b due to the assumption of liability by the state for benefits paid pursuant to the provisions of chapter 568 for volunteer firefighters.
(P.A. 95-243, S. 3.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-315 to 7-322. - Death benefits; payments for injuries, for treatment of injuries and occupational disease and for total disability; insurance to provide payments; notice of claim; investigation of claim; benefits exempt from attachment.

Sections 7-315 to 7-322, inclusive, are repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 911–S. 918; 1949, 1953, S. 419d–S. 421d, S. 423d; 1955, S. 422d; 1957, P.A. 175; 1959, P.A. 567, S. 2–5; February, 1965, P.A. 353, 354, 387, 485; 1967, P.A. 892, S. 4.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-322a. - Benefits for volunteers rendering service to another fire company.

Any active member of a volunteer fire company who offers his services to an officer or person in charge of another fire company which is actively engaged in fire duties, and whose services are accepted by such officer or person, shall be entitled to receive all benefits payable under the provisions of sections 7-314 and 7-314a. Such payments shall be made by the municipality in which the fire company of which such a fireman is a member is located.
(February, 1965, P.A. 264; 1967, P.A. 892, S. 3; 1969, P.A. 464, S. 2.)
History: 1967 act made technical changes; 1969 act deleted provision restricting offer of services to other volunteer fire companies by removing word “volunteer”.
Applies to conduct of individuals. 209 C. 268.
Cited. 15 CA 84.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-323a. - Definitions.

As used in this part: “Municipality” and “legislative body” shall each have the same meaning ascribed to it in section 7-425; “participating municipality” means any municipality which votes to accept the provisions of this part; “fund” means the Policemen and Firemen Survivors' Benefit Fund established by this part; “Retirement Commission” means the State Retirement Commission created by chapter 66; “member” means any active uniformed policeman or active uniformed fireman receiving pay from a participating municipality who has been included by such municipality under the provisions of this part, and “compensation” means one-twelfth of the annual rate of pay of a full-time paid policeman or fireman of a participating municipality who is in active service and one-twelfth of the annual rate of pay immediately prior to the retirement of a full-time paid policeman or fireman of a participating municipality who is retired.
(1963, P.A. 390, S. 1; P.A. 75-293, S. 4.)
History: P.A. 75-293 added definition of “member”.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-323b. - Acceptance of part.

Any municipality may, by ordinance, accept the provisions of this part, as to its policemen or firemen, or both, but such acceptance shall not repeal, amend or replace, or affect the continuance of, any pension system established in such municipality by or under the authority of any special act or charter provision and all such special acts or charter provisions shall remain in full force and effect until repealed or amended by the General Assembly or as provided by chapter 99. When such ordinance has been adopted by the legislative body of any municipality, a certified copy thereof shall be forwarded to the Retirement Commission by the clerk of such municipality. The effective date of participation shall be the first day of July at least ninety days subsequent to the receipt by the Retirement Commission of the certified copy of such ordinance or resolution. The Retirement Commission shall furnish to any municipality contemplating acceptance of this part, at the expense of such municipality, an estimate of the probable cost to such municipality of such acceptance. If any municipality accepts the provisions of this part as to its policemen or firemen, or both, and such municipality provides survivors' benefits for such policemen or firemen, or both, under authority of any special act or charter provision, any such policeman or fireman of such municipality for whom such benefits are provided may elect to be covered under the provisions of this part, provided such election shall be made within ninety days from the date upon which the municipality accepts the provisions of this part for such policeman or fireman and such election shall be in writing and filed with the clerk of the municipality and with the Retirement Commission. Upon such election, the survivors' benefits for such policeman or fireman provided under special act or charter provision shall cease, and only those benefits provided under the provisions of this part shall be available.
(1963, P.A. 390, S. 2; February, 1965, P.A. 197, S. 1.)
History: 1965 act specified section may be applied either to policemen or firemen or both instead of only to both and added provisions concerning election of benefits under policemen and firemen survivors' benefit fund rather than benefits provided under special act or charter provision.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-323c. - Benefit fund established.

There is established a fund which shall be known as the Policemen and Firemen Survivors' Benefit Fund. The fund shall consist of contributions received from the following sources:
(a) Each full-time paid policeman and fireman covered by a municipality's acceptance of this part who does not enjoy survivors' benefits provided by special act or charter provision or who does enjoy survivors' benefits provided by special act or charter provision but who elected to be covered under this section, shall contribute one per cent of his compensation, to be deducted by the municipality and forwarded not less frequently than once a month to the Retirement Commission to be credited to the fund.
(b) Each participating municipality shall be liable to the fund for an initial payment in an amount to be determined by the Retirement Commission, which amount is necessary, in conjunction with the policemen and firemen's contribution, to start the fund on a sound actuarial basis.
(c) Each participating municipality shall pay annually to the Retirement Commission to be credited to the fund such amounts fixed by said commission as shall, in conjunction with the policemen and firemen's contribution, maintain the fund on a sound actuarial basis.
(d) Each participating municipality shall also pay annually a proportionate share of the costs of the administration of the fund as determined by the commission on the basis of the number of employees covered by this part in such municipality.
(e) The rates of contribution referred to in subsections (b) and (c) of this section shall be proportions of the pay of members, which shall each be uniform for each participating municipality; except that, if any error or omission in the data furnished to the commission by any municipality causes the contribution rate fixed by the commission for any year under subsection (c) to be insufficient, the entire amount of any required increase shall be charged to the municipality or municipalities by which such errors or omissions were made.
(1963, P.A. 390, S. 3, 7; February, 1965, P.A. 197, S. 2; 1967, P.A. 400.)
History: 1965 act amended Subsec. (a) to limit coverage to persons who do not enjoy survivors' benefits under special act or charter or who do enjoy such benefits but elect to be covered under this section; 1967 act required that necessary increase resulting from errors and omissions be charged to municipality which made error or omission under Subsec. (e).
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-323d. - Actuarial studies of fund experience.

The Retirement Commission shall make a complete actuarial study of the experience of the fund at intervals of not more than five years and shall thereupon readjust the contributions to be made by municipalities.
(1963, P.A. 390, S. 4.)