reglab/statecodes huggingface dataset:
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103b - Municipal Resource Recovery Authorities › Section 7-273gg. - Form. Maturity. Investment of proceeds.

Bonds issued under the authority of this chapter shall be executed and delivered in such manner and at such times, may be in such form and denominations, bear such date or dates, be sold at such prices and mature at such time or times not exceeding thirty years from the date thereof as the body having power to authorize such bonds shall determine. The bonds may be issued as serial bonds or as term bonds or as a combination thereof. The bonds shall be in such denominations, be in such form, either bearer or registered as to principal and interest or as to principal alone or in book entry form, carry such exchange, transfer and registration privileges, be executed in such manner, be payable in such medium of payment, at such place or places whether within or without the state, and be subject to such terms of redemption as the body having power to authorize such bonds shall determine. The proceeds from the sale of the bonds may be invested and reinvested in such obligations, securities and other investments or deposited or redeposited in such bank or banks as the body having power to authorize such bonds shall determine.
(P.A. 81-213, S. 9, 18; P.A. 85-478, S. 7, 10.)
History: P.A. 85-478 struck previous section and inserted present provisions allowing issuing authority to determine the form and maturity of the bonds and inserted provisions regarding investment of proceeds.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103b - Municipal Resource Recovery Authorities › Section 7-273hh. - Temporary notes.

Any municipality which has authorized the acquisition or construction of all or of any part of a resource recovery facility and which has made an appropriation therefor may borrow temporarily upon the credit of the municipality such sum or sums as may be necessary for such acquisition or construction and may issue temporary notes for any such loan, including temporary notes issued in anticipation of the sale of bonds to be secured by the full faith and credit of the municipality, by the pledge of revenues to be derived from the operation of a resource recovery facility or by both the full faith and credit of the municipality and the pledge of revenues to be derived from the operation of a resource recovery facility. Each issue of any such temporary notes shall constitute a separate loan and may be for a period of not more than two years, except that any temporary notes issued in anticipation of the sale of bonds to be secured solely by the pledge of revenues to be derived from the operation of a resource recovery facility may be for a period of not more than four years. Such temporary notes may be renewed from time to time by the issue of other temporary notes, provided the period from the date of issue of the original notes to the date of maturity of the last renewal notes shall not be more than two or four years, as the case may be. The interest or discount on such temporary notes, including renewals thereof, and the expense of preparing, issuing and marketing the same, may be included as a cost of the acquisition or construction of a resource recovery facility and may either be borrowed temporarily under the provisions of this section or funded by the issue of serial bonds or notes under the provisions of this chapter. Temporary notes may be issued under the authority of this section in anticipation of proceeds to be derived from the sale of bonds notwithstanding that, at the time of issuing such temporary notes, the municipality has not actually authorized the issue of such bonds.
(P.A. 81-213, S. 10, 18.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103b - Municipal Resource Recovery Authorities › Section 7-273ii. - Revenue or guaranteed bonds not included in debt limitation.

Bonds and notes issued pursuant to this chapter and (a) secured solely by a pledge of revenues to be derived from the operation of a resource facility or (b) guaranteed, in whole or in part, by state, federal or private grants of money shall not be subject to any statutory limitation, to the extent of such security or guarantee, on the indebtedness of the municipality and such bonds and notes when issued shall not be included in computing the aggregate indebtedness of the municipality in respect to and to the extent of any such limitation.
(P.A. 81-213, S. 11, 18.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103b - Municipal Resource Recovery Authorities › Section 7-273jj. - Agreement with bondholders.

In connection with any bonds or notes issued under the authority of this chapter, the municipality may, by resolution of the body having power to make appropriations for such municipality, covenant and agree with the holders thereof as to (a) the rates or charges to be imposed upon the users of such resource recovery facility, including the municipality, for connection with or the use of such facility, (b) the use and disposition of the revenue from such rates or charges, (c) the creation and maintenance of special funds and the management, use and disposition thereof, (d) the purposes for which the proceeds of the sale of such bonds or notes may be used, (e) the acts or conduct which shall constitute a default and the rights and liabilities of the holders arising upon such default, (f) the terms and conditions upon which bonds or notes issued under the authority of this chapter shall become or may be declared due before maturity and the terms and conditions upon which such declaration and its consequences may be waived, (g) the conditions upon which other or additional bonds or notes may be issued and secured by revenue from the operation of a resource recovery facility, (h) the insurance to be carried upon the facility, and the use and disposition of any insurance moneys, (i) the maintenance of books of account and the inspection and audit thereof.
(P.A. 81-213, S. 12, 18.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103b - Municipal Resource Recovery Authorities › Section 7-273kk. - Use of funds.

All revenues derived from the operation of a resource recovery facility, whether pledged for payment of bonds or notes or otherwise, shall be kept separate from other funds of the municipality and shall be used for the facility, including the payment of debt incurred for the facility and interest thereon, and for no other purpose.
(P.A. 81-213, S. 13, 18.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103b - Municipal Resource Recovery Authorities › Section 7-273ll. - Special fund.

Any municipality which has issued bonds or notes in accordance with this chapter may by ordinance establish a special fund for payment of all or any part of such bonds or notes or interest thereon, may make and revise necessary rules and regulations not contrary to this chapter for the management of such special fund and may provide for payments into such special fund of all or any part of any revenues from the operation of a resource recovery facility or funds from any other source. The municipality shall not withdraw any moneys from the fund except for such purpose and shall not alter any vote or agreement in respect to revenues to be paid into the fund until such bonds or notes have been paid in full or the special fund is sufficient to do so.
(P.A. 81-213, S. 14, 18.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103b - Municipal Resource Recovery Authorities › Section 7-273nn. - Anticipation notes.

In addition to its other powers under this chapter any municipality operating a resource recovery facility may issue temporary notes to be paid from anticipated income from such facility and may renew such notes annually for not more than fifteen years.
(P.A. 81-213, S. 16, 18.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103b - Municipal Resource Recovery Authorities › Section 7-273oo. - Power to be additional.

Any power granted by this chapter shall be in addition to, and not in derogation of, any power granted to any municipality under the provisions of any special act or of any general statute.
(P.A. 81-213, S. 17, 18.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103b - Municipal Resource Recovery Authorities › Section 7-273pp. - Investment in bonds. Negotiability. Liens.

(a) Bonds issued by an authority under the provisions of this chapter are hereby made securities in which all public officers and public bodies of the state and its political subdivisions, all insurance companies, credit unions, building and loan associations, investment companies, banking associations, trust companies, executors, administrators, trustees and other fiduciaries and pension, profit-sharing and retirement funds may properly and legally invest funds, including capital in their control or belonging to them. Such bonds are hereby made 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 of the state is now or may hereafter be authorized by law.
(b) Whether or not the bonds of an authority created pursuant to this chapter are of such form and character as to be negotiable instruments under article 8 of title 42a, such bonds shall be and are hereby made negotiable instruments within the meaning of and for all the purposes of said article 8 of title 42a, subject only to the provisions of the bonds for registration.
(c) Any pledge made by a municipality or an authority pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be valid and binding from the time when the pledge is made, and any revenues or other receipts, funds or moneys so pledged and thereafter received by such municipality or authority shall be subject immediately to the lien of such pledge without any physical delivery thereof or further act. The lien of any such pledge shall be valid and binding as against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract, or otherwise against the municipality or the authority, irrespective of whether such parties have notice thereof. Neither the resolution nor any other instrument by which a pledge is created need be recorded.
(P.A. 85-478, S. 9, 10.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-274. - Establishment by ordinance of town police commissions; adoption by ordinance of special act provisions when police commission established thereby.

(a) Any town may, by ordinance, establish a board of police commissioners to be elected, in accordance with the provisions of section 9-201 or to be appointed by the council or board of directors of a town, the common council or other body empowered to make ordinances of a city, the board of burgesses of a borough or the board of selectmen of a town not having a council or board of directors, provided in a town having both a board of selectmen and a representative town meeting such ordinance may designate the representative town meeting as the appointing authority, for the purpose of organizing and maintaining a police department in such town. Such board shall consist of three, five or seven electors, all of whom shall be resident taxpayers of such town. Such commissioners shall be sworn to the faithful performance of their duties and shall serve without compensation, but their actual expenses and disbursements incurred in the performance of their duties shall be paid from the town treasury.
(b) For any town in which a board of police commissioners has been established pursuant to a special act, such town may, by ordinance, adopt the provisions of such special act and any amendment to such act.
(1949 Rev., S. 656; 1953, S. 260d; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 19; P.A. 73-138, S. 1, 2; P.A. 74-209; P.A. 19-104, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 73-138 permitted board to be appointed as well as elected; P.A. 74-209 clarified appointment provisions by listing specific appointing authorities; P.A. 19-104 designated existing provisions re establishment of board of police commissioners as Subsec. (a) and added Subsec. (b) re boards established pursuant to special act.
Cited. 144 C. 21; 171 C. 553.
Upon establishment of board by town meeting, no vacancy exists when members are to be elected at the “next town election”. 19 CS 316. Cited. 31 CS 145; 38 CS 419.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-275. - Meetings of commissioners. Vacancies.

The board of police commissioners shall elect one of its number to be chairman and one member to be clerk and shall hold regular meetings and keep records of the same. Meetings shall be held upon the call of the chairman or of a majority of the members of the board. A majority of the members of the board shall constitute a quorum. In the event of any vacancy upon the board, the board of selectmen shall have authority by majority vote to fill such vacancy until the next town election, at which election a member shall be elected for the unexpired portion of the term.
(1949 Rev., S. 658; 1953, S. 261d.)
See Sec. 9-1 for applicable definitions.
Cited. 144 C. 27.
Cited. 19 CS 316.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-276. - Powers of commissioners.

Such boards shall have all of the powers given by the general statutes to boards of police commissioners, shall have general management and supervision of the police department of such town and of the property and equipment used in connection therewith, shall make all needful regulations for the government thereof not contrary to law and may prescribe suitable penalties for the violation of any such regulation, including suspension or removal from office of any officer or member of such police department. Such board shall have the sole power of appointment, promotion and removal of the officers and members of such police department, under such regulations as it adopts for the purpose, and such appointees shall hold office during good behavior and until removed for cause upon written charges and after hearing. The members of such police department shall have all such authority with respect to the service of criminal process and the enforcement of the criminal laws as is vested by the general statutes in police officers and constables.
(1949 Rev., S. 659.)
Cited. 171 C. 553; 217 C. 73; 227 C. 363; 229 C. 703. Statutory policy committing selection, direction and dismissal of police officers to town is not inconsistent with grievance procedure in collective bargaining agreement covering discipline of police officers. 255 C. 800.
Cited. 41 CA 649.
Offices of police commissioner and chief of police are incompatible and, upon acceptance of one, other office is vacated. 21 CS 294. A de novo hearing on the merits does not contravene statute since only the power of appointment, promotion and removal of police officers is exclusively reserved to the commissioners. 31 CS 87. Cited. Id., 145.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-278. - Hearing prior to dismissal of municipal police head. Just cause requirement. Appeal.

No active head of any police department of any town, city or borough shall be dismissed unless there is a showing of just cause by the authority having the power of dismissal and such person 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 such authority. 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, with bad faith, malice, or without just cause.
(1949, 1951, 1955, S. 425d; P.A. 74-183, S. 178, 291; P.A. 76-436, S. 288, 681; P.A. 82-472, S. 18, 183; P.A. 83-212.)
History: P.A. 74-183 added reference to judicial district; P.A. 76-436 substituted superior court for court of common pleas, effective July 1, 1978; P.A. 82-472 deleted obsolete reference to county as venue for superior court; P.A. 83-212 required a showing of just cause for municipal police chief dismissals.
Cited. 209 C. 353; 223 C. 354; 229 C. 703.
Cited. 44 CA 611.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-279. - Subpoena to appear before municipal police commissioners.

The chief executive officer of any municipality, the clerk of the board of police commissioners in any municipality or any justice of the peace may sign and issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses before the board of police commissioners in such municipality at any lawful meeting of such board. Any such subpoena may be served in the same manner as by law provided for witnesses in civil causes, except that no fees shall be tendered to any witness at the time of such service. Any person upon whom such process has been legally served shall appear before such board in obedience to such process and testify as to any matters lawfully pending before such board. If any person upon whom such a subpoena has been served refuses to attend before such board, the clerk of such board, by direction of the board, may issue a capias, directed to some proper officer, to arrest such witness and bring him before the board to testify; and, in case such person refuses to testify, the board shall have the power to adjudge such person to be in contempt and may issue a mittimus, signed by its clerk, and commit such person to a community correctional center for not more than thirty days.
(1949 Rev., S. 661; 1969, P.A. 297; P.A. 77-178, S. 1.)
History: 1969 act replaced jails with community correctional centers; P.A. 77-178 replaced “city” with “municipality” and “mayor” with “chief executive officer”.
This is an exercise of the police power and is not a judicial proceeding. 65 C. 33. Cited. 180 C. 243; 222 C. 799.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-280. - Witness fees.

The same fees as provided by law for witnesses in civil causes shall be paid out of the treasury of the municipality to any witnesses, except policemen, who attend and testify under the provisions of section 7-279, the amount of such fees to be certified by the mayor or clerk of such board to the proper auditing officers of the municipality.
(1949 Rev., S. 662; P.A. 77-178, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 77-178 replaced references to “city” with references to “municipality”.
See Sec. 52-260 re witness fees.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-281. - Execution of criminal process in towns, cities and boroughs. Execution of arrest warrants.

Active members of any legally organized police force in a town, city or borough shall have the same authority to execute criminal process in their respective towns, cities or boroughs as constables have in their respective towns, and, in addition, any such member having a warrant of arrest arising out of an offense allegedly committed in the town, city or borough in which such police force is located may execute such warrant in any part of the state.
(1949 Rev., S. 663; 1967, P.A. 20, S. 1.)
History: 1967 act included towns and added provision concerning execution of warrants.
Police officers appointed by our municipalities are officers as fully as the sheriff of the county, charged with the execution of a trust. 67 C. 310; 70 C. 121. Cited. 181 C. 562; 210 C. 333; 227 C. 363.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-282. - Municipal accident and police records.

The police department of any city, town or borough having or receiving any memoranda, sketches, charts, written statements, reports or photographs made in the investigation of any accident wherein any person has been injured or property damaged shall preserve and retain the same for a period of at least ten years from the date of such accident. Subsequent to the final disposition of any criminal action arising out of an accident, the records hereinbefore specified and the information contained therein shall be open to public inspection, except that such records shall be available to any person involved in the accident subsequent to the issuance of a warrant or summons in such action.
(1949 Rev., S. 676; 1957, P.A. 248; P.A. 80-61.)
History: P.A. 80-61 raised period during which accident records must be maintained from 3 to 10 years and added provision that records be available to persons involved in accidents after warrant or summons issued.
See Sec. 29-10c re state police accident records.
Cited. 33 CA 727.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-282a. - Reporting of bomb incidents.

Section 7-282a is repealed, effective October 1, 1997.
(P.A. 76-89; P.A. 85-613, S. 86, 154; P.A. 97-162, S. 5.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-282b. - Automatic telephone alarms.

No person shall install or connect any telephone device in his residence or place of business which device is capable of automatically calling and relaying recorded messages to a Division of State Police, or municipal police or fire department telephone number unless such person has given ten days' notice of such connection or installation, in writing, to the state police troop commander, or chief law enforcement or fire safety officer, as the case may be, of the municipality where such residence or place of business is located.
(P.A. 79-466; P.A. 80-5.)
History: P.A. 80-5 included division of state police under provisions of section.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-282c. - Filing and dissemination of reports re missing children, missing youths and certain missing persons.

Any municipal police department which receives a report of a missing child or missing youth under eighteen years of age or a missing person who is eligible for assistance under subsection (a) of section 29-1f shall immediately accept such report for filing and inform all on-duty police officers of the existence of the missing child, missing youth or missing person report and communicate the report to other appropriate law enforcement agencies.
(P.A. 85-278; P.A. 09-109, S. 1; P.A. 11-102, S. 4; 11-157, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 09-109 added provisions re reports of missing persons eligible for assistance under Sec. 29-1f(a), effective July 1, 2009; P.A. 11-102 changed age of missing child from under 15 years to under 18 years of age; P.A. 11-157 added provisions re reports of missing youth under 18 years of age.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-282d. - Imposition of pedestrian citation or traffic ticket quotas prohibited.

No municipal police department may impose any quota with respect to the issuance of citations to pedestrians or summonses for motor vehicle violations upon any policeman in such department. Nothing in this section shall prohibit such department from using data concerning the issuance of such citations or summonses in the evaluation of an individual's work performance provided such data is not the exclusive means of evaluating such performance. As used in this section, “quota” means a specified number of citations issued to pedestrians or summonses for motor vehicle violations to be issued within a specified period of time.
(P.A. 91-222, S. 2, 3; July Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-1, S. 38.)
History: July Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-1 added references to citations issued to pedestrians.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-283. - Employment of private detectives.

No municipal corporation shall employ private detectives in the investigation or detection of crime at an expense of more than five hundred dollars unless a specific appropriation therefor has been made, nor unless the authorities thereof have first applied to the state police for assistance in such investigation and waited a reasonable time for said state police to act. Any municipal official who violates any provision of this section shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars and shall be liable to such municipality in a civil action for the amount expended in excess of such sum as has been appropriated for such investigation.
(1949 Rev., S. 664; P.A. 77-614, S. 486, 587, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 85, 136.)
History: P.A. 77-614 and P.A. 78-303 made state police a division within the department of public safety rather than a separate department, effective January 1, 1979.
Cited. 104 C. 15.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-284. - Police protection at places of amusement.

When police protection is necessary or required at any boxing bout or wrestling match, place of public amusement, sport contest or hockey, baseball or basketball game, or any other exhibition or contest, which is being held or is to be held in any municipality, the amount of such protection necessary shall be determined and shall be furnished by (1) the chief or superintendent of the police department in any municipality having an organized or paid police department or (2) the commanding officer of the state police troop having jurisdiction over the municipality in any municipality having a resident state trooper. Any such protection shall be paid for by the person or persons operating, conducting or promoting such game, exhibition or contest.
(1949 Rev., S. 704; P.A. 77-614, S. 486, 610; P.A. 82-193, S. 1, 3; P.A. 85-21.)
History: P.A. 77-614 substituted division of state police within the department of public safety for state police department, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 82-193 clarified provisions dealing with the determination and provision of police protection at places of amusement and added Subsec. (b) dealing with traffic control at certain pari-mutuel facilities; P.A. 85-21 deleted former Subsec. (b), which had permitted associations licensed under chapter 226 which conduct jai alai or racing to employ persons to control traffic near pari-mutuel facilities.
Cited. 213 C. 269. Section was applied to plaintiff in a manner consistent with first amendment. 236 C. 781.
Although “shall” can connote a mandatory command, the language of statute read as a whole involves discretionary acts and does not create a ministerial duty to furnish police protection. 138 CA 40.
Inapplicable to restaurants and dances at restaurants. 6 Conn. Cir. Ct. 631.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-285. - Sale of unclaimed goods by police departments.

The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection, the board of police commissioners, the chief of police, superintendent of police or other authority having charge of a police department may sell by public auction any and all articles found and which have remained in the possession thereof for one year or more. Before such sale, such authority shall cause the time and place thereof, and a description of such of the articles as are of the appraised value of fifty dollars or more, to be advertised at least once a week, for two successive weeks, at least two weeks prior to the actual sale date, in a daily newspaper published in the county in which such articles were found or recovered. The proceeds of such sale, after deducting the expenses thereof, shall be paid to the State Treasurer or the treasurer of the municipality, who shall keep the same as a separate fund to be used and applied for the relief of sick, injured or disabled policemen, to be expended under the sole direction of such commissioners or other authority in charge and upon their orders only. In any municipality where such a fund is otherwise provided for, such proceeds shall be deposited in its general fund.
(1949 Rev., S. 667; 1961, P.A. 586; P.A. 75-530, S. 21, 35; P.A. 77-614, S. 486, 610; P.A. 93-65; P.A. 11-51, S. 134.)
History: 1961 act broadened section formerly applicable only to city departments to include all police departments and added provision governing deposit of proceeds in general fund; P.A. 75-530 deleted provision allowing sale of stolen articles; P.A. 77-614 substituted commissioner of public safety for commissioner of state police, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 93-65 amended section to increase the value of property which must be noticed prior to its auction from $5 to $50 and provided for its advertisement at least two weeks prior to the sale; pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.
See Sec. 7-296 re reserve funds of police departments.
See Secs. 50-9 to 50-14, inclusive, re towns' adoption of procedure with regard to lost goods.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-286. - Police matrons in certain cities.

In each city of this state having a population of twenty thousand or more, as shown by the last-preceding United States census, the board of police commissioners or police committee shall appoint a police matron, whose duty it shall be to take charge of all women arrested and held by the police of the city.
(1949 Rev., S. 668.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-287. - Female prisoners under care of police matron.

The board of police commissioners or the police committee in each such city shall assign a certain part of the central police station of the city for female prisoners, which part shall be under the care and control of the police matron, subject to the orders of the chief of police. There shall also be provided by each such city a convenient private room for the use of the police matron, either within the station or in its neighborhood.
(1949 Rev., S. 669.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-288. - Duty of police matron.

The police matron shall take charge of that part of the station so assigned for female prisoners and keep the same in proper condition; and shall, at all times when there are no female prisoners at the station, be within easy call and attend day or night upon such call.
(1949 Rev., S. 670.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-289. - Qualifications of matron; salary; removal.

Each police matron shall be (1) a female police officer or (2) a woman at least eighteen years of age. The hiring authority may establish other qualifications for the employment of police matrons and require evidence of fulfillment of these qualifications. Such matron shall receive such salary as the common council of the city determines and may be removed by the board of police commissioners or police committee if, in its judgment, the public interest requires it. The officer in charge of the station shall, whenever it is necessary, order policemen to assist the matron upon her request for such assistance.
(1949 Rev., S. 671; P.A. 87-39, S. 1, 2; P.A. 89-2; P.A. 91-171, S. 2, 3.)
History: P.A. 87-39 reduced minimum age of matrons from 30 to 18; P.A. 89-2 authorized female police officer to be qualified as a police matron; P.A. 91-171 eliminated from the qualifications for a matron that a woman at least 18 years of age be “of good moral character, recommended in writing by at least five men and five women of good standing, who have been for five years residents of the city”, and added provision authorizing the hiring authority to establish other qualifications and require evidence of fulfillment of these qualifications.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-290. - Separate station for female prisoners.

Any city, required by section 7-286 to have a police matron, may provide a separate station for the detention of female prisoners. In any city which has no board of police commissioners or board charged with its general duties, the powers and duties hereby given and assigned to such a board may be exercised and discharged by the mayor of the city.
(1949 Rev., S. 672.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-291a. - Efforts re recruitment, retention and promotion of minority police officers. Annual report.

(a) If a law enforcement unit serves a community with a relatively high concentration of minority residents, the unit shall make efforts to recruit, retain and promote minority police officers so that the racial and ethnic diversity of such unit is representative of such community. Such efforts may include, but are not limited to: (1) Efforts to attract young persons from the community such unit serves to careers in law enforcement through enrollment and participation in police athletic leagues in which police officers support young persons of the community through mentoring, sports, education and by fostering a positive relationship between such persons and police officers, the implementation of explorer programs and cadet units and support for public safety academies; (2) community outreach; and (3) implementation of policies providing that when there is a vacant position in such unit, such position shall be filled by hiring or promoting a minority candidate when the qualifications of such candidate exceed or are equal to that of any other candidate or candidates being considered for such position when such candidates are ranked on a promotion or examination register or list. For purposes of this section, “minority” means an individual whose race is defined as other than white, or whose ethnicity is defined as Hispanic or Latino by the federal Office of Management and Budget for use by the Bureau of Census of the United States Department of Commerce.
(b) Not later than January 1, 2021, and annually thereafter, the board of police commissioners, the chief of police, the superintendent of police or other authority having charge of a law enforcement unit that serves a community with a relatively high concentration of minority residents shall report to the Police Officer Standards and Training Council on the community's efforts to recruit, retain and promote minority police officers.
(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-4, S. 3; July Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-1, S. 10.)
History: July Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-1 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and added Subsec. (b) re annual report to the Police Officer Standards and Training Council, effective July 31, 2020.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-291b. - Guidelines re recruitment, retention and promotion of minority police officers.

Not later than January 1, 2016, each law enforcement unit, as defined in section 7-294a, shall develop and implement guidelines for the recruitment, retention and promotion of minority police officers, as defined in section 7-294a. Such guidelines shall promote achieving the goal of racial, gender, ideological and ethnic diversity within the law enforcement unit and community involvement.
(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-4, S. 2; P.A. 22-114, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 22-114 added reference to ideological diversity and community involvement.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-291c. - Prohibition against hiring police officer dismissed for malfeasance or who resigned or retired while under investigation.

(a) No law enforcement unit, as defined in section 7-294a, shall hire any person as a police officer, as defined in said section 7-294a, who was previously employed as a police officer by such unit or in any other jurisdiction and who (1) was dismissed for malfeasance or other serious misconduct calling into question such person's fitness to serve as a police officer; or (2) resigned or retired from such officer's position while under investigation for such malfeasance or other serious misconduct.
(b) Any law enforcement unit that has knowledge that any former police officer of such unit who (1) (A) was dismissed for malfeasance or other serious misconduct, or (B) resigned or retired from such officer's position while under investigation for such malfeasance or other serious misconduct; and (2) is an applicant for the position of police officer with any other law enforcement unit, shall inform such other unit and the Police Officer Standards and Training Council established under section 7-294b of such dismissal, resignation or retirement.
(c) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any police officer who is exonerated of each allegation against such officer of such malfeasance or other serious misconduct.
(d) For purposes of this section, (1) “malfeasance” means the commonly approved usage of “malfeasance”; and (2) “serious misconduct” means improper or illegal actions taken by a police officer in connection with such officer's official duties that could result in a miscarriage of justice or discrimination, including, but not limited to, (A) a conviction of a felony, (B) fabrication of evidence, (C) repeated use of excessive force, (D) acceptance of a bribe, or (E) the commission of fraud.
(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-4, S. 6; P.A. 17-180, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 17-180 amended Subsec. (b)(2) by adding “and the Police Officer Standards and Training Council established under section 7-294b”.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-291d. - Employment protection of police officer who seeks or receives mental health care services. Return to duty. Law enforcement unit liability.

(a)(1) No law enforcement unit, as defined in section 7-294a, shall discharge, discipline, discriminate against or otherwise penalize a police officer, as defined in section 7-294a, who is employed by such law enforcement unit solely because the police officer (A) seeks or receives mental health care services, including such services as a result of a behavioral health assessment conducted pursuant to section 7-291e, or (B) surrenders his or her firearm, ammunition or electronic defense weapon used in the performance of the police officer's official duties to such law enforcement unit during the time the police officer receives mental health care services.
(2) The provisions of this subsection shall not be applicable to a police officer who (A) seeks or receives mental health care services to avoid disciplinary action by such law enforcement unit, or (B) refuses to submit himself or herself to an examination as provided in subsection (b) of this section.
(b) Prior to returning to a police officer his or her surrendered firearm, ammunition or electronic defense weapon used in the performance of the police officer's official duties, such law enforcement unit shall request the police officer to submit himself or herself to an examination by a mental health professional, as defined in section 31-294k. The examination shall be performed to determine whether the police officer is ready to report for official duty and shall be paid for by such law enforcement unit.
(c) No civil action may be brought against a law enforcement unit for damages arising from an act or omission of a police officer employed by the unit with respect to the officer's use of his or her personal firearm, if (1) the officer seeks or receives mental health care services and surrenders to such unit his or her firearm, ammunition or electronic defense weapon used in the performance of the police officer's official duties, and (2) such act or omission occurs during the time period the officer has surrendered his or her firearm, ammunition or electronic defense weapon or within six months of the date of surrendering his or her firearm, ammunition or electronic defense weapon, whichever is longer.
(P.A. 19-17, S. 4; P.A. 22-64, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 22-64 amended Subsec. (a) by inserting new Subdiv. designators and redesignating existing Subdivs. (1) and (2) as Subparas. (2)(A) and (2)(B), inserting Subpara. indicators in new Subdiv. (1) and adding provision re behavioral health assessment in Subdiv. (1)(A), effective May 23, 2022.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-292. - Adoption of forty-hour week for policemen.

(a) Any municipality may, by ordinance, adopt an average work week of forty hours for permanent paid policemen as provided in sections 7-293 and 7-294 and this section.
(b) The legislative body of such municipality may, by ordinance, or shall, upon petition of the 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 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 such 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 in such municipality. 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 forty hours for permanent paid policemen and that such election or meeting is called under the provisions of this section. The vote on such question shall be by voting tabulator, and the voting tabulator ballot, which shall bear the words “For a forty-hour week for policemen” and “Against a forty-hour week for policemen”, shall be provided for use 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 7-293 and 7-294 and this section, said sections shall take effect as to such municipality no later than ninety days thereafter, provided, where the fiscal year of any such municipality begins within ninety days thereafter, the effective date of said sections for such municipality shall not be later than the first day of the fiscal year next following the expiration of the ninety-day period.
(1951, S. 431d; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 50; P.A. 11-20, S. 1.)
History: 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.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-293. - Work week.

The work week for all permanent paid members of the uniformed police force for municipalities adopting sections 7-292 to 7-294, inclusive, shall be an average work week of not more than forty 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 police duty, including time spent going to, working at or returning from any actual police duty, or any other work or duty classified as an act of emergency shall not be included in computing such average work week.
(1951, S. 432d.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection › Section 7-294. - Earnings not affected.

There shall be no diminution in the weekly earnings of any police in municipalities adopting the provisions of sections 7-292 to 7-294, inclusive, 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 therein.
(1951, S. 433d.)