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2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 111 - Municipal Auditing Act › Section 7-396. - Designation of auditor.

The regional board of education and appointing authority of any municipality or audited agency shall file with the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management the name of the independent auditor, designated to audit the financial statements of the regional school district, municipality, or audited agency, at least thirty days before the end of the fiscal period of such regional school district, municipality, or audited agency for which such audit is required. If any such appointing authority fails to notify the secretary of such designation before such thirty-day period, said secretary may appoint any independent auditor to audit the accounts of such regional school district, municipality or audited agency, and the cost and expense of such audit shall be borne by such regional school district, municipality or audited agency.
(1949 Rev., S. 826; P.A. 76-68, S. 5, 7; P.A. 77-614, S. 19, 610; P.A. 87-573, S. 8, 11; P.A. 93-422, S. 7.)
History: P.A. 76-68 substituted appointing authority for budget-making authority, included “audited agencies” in accord with revised definitions of Sec. 7-391 and required filing of accountant selected to perform audit within 30 rather than 90 days of fiscal period requiring audit; P.A. 77-614 substituted secretary of the office of policy and management for tax commissioner; P.A. 87-573 inserted references to school districts and reporting requirements of reporting agencies, effective July 1, 1987, and applicable to audits for fiscal years beginning on or after that date; P.A. 93-422 applied provisions to regional boards of education, changed “independent public accountant” to “independent auditor”, “records” to “financial statements”, and “school district” to “regional school district”, deleted “for the preceding fiscal year” regarding accounts audited and deleted reference to cost and expense of investigation.
Cited. 155 C. 169.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 111 - Municipal Auditing Act › Section 7-396a. - Audits of agencies receiving state grants.

(a) Any agreement for a state grant entered into between a state agency and a public or private agency shall provide for an audit acceptable to such state agency of any grant expenditures made by such public or private agency and, unless otherwise provided by the state agency, the cost of such audit may be considered an allowable expense under such grant agreement. The Auditors of Public Accounts shall have access to all records and accounts of such public or private agency for the fiscal year in which such grant is made. A copy of any audit performed under the provisions of this section shall be filed with the Auditors of Public Accounts.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, in the case of an agreement for a state grant entered into between a state agency and a public or private agency where the state agency has received funding for such grant from the federal government, the cost of any required audit shall be considered an allowable expense under such grant agreement, provided the cost of such audit is an allowable expense under the federal grant regulations.
(P.A. 76-68, S. 6, 7; P.A. 84-316, S. 1, 2; P.A. 85-613, S. 20, 154; P.A. 87-573, S. 9, 11; P.A. 88-61, S. 1, 2; P.A. 89-81, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 84-316 added Subsec. (c) re payment of cost of audits; P.A. 85-613 made technical changes; P.A. 87-573 inserted a reference to reporting requirements in Subsec. (a), effective July 1, 1987, and applicable to audits for fiscal years beginning on or after that date; P.A. 88-61 authorized in Subsec. (b) the cost of the annual audits of state agency grants to be considered an allowable expense under grant agreements; P.A. 89-81 deleted former Subsec. (a), transferring provisions to Subsec. (c) of Sec. 2-90, and relettered remaining Subsecs.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 112 - Municipal Finance › Section 7-398. - Returns concerning finances to be under oath; false statement.

All reports or returns, in any respect concerning public finances or the reception or disbursement of public funds, made by selectmen or treasurers of towns and auditors or treasurers of cities, regularly in the line of their respective official duties, to any body, meeting or committee acting in a public capacity, shall be verified by the oath of the person or persons making the same. Any person who so verifies any return or report, known to him to be false in fact, or which in any material respect intentionally suppresses or conceals the truth, shall be subject to the penalty provided for false statement.
(1949 Rev., S. 828, 829; 1971, P.A. 871, S. 62.)
History: 1971 act changed penalty from six months' imprisonment and/or $200 fine to same penalty as for false statement.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 112 - Municipal Finance › Section 7-401. - Definitions.

As used in sections 7-402 and 7-403, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings unless the context indicates another meaning or intent:
(1) “Deposit” or “deposits” means demand deposits, time deposits, certificates of deposit, share accounts, term share accounts and share certificate accounts;
(2) “Municipality” means any town, city or borough, whether consolidated or unconsolidated, and any school district, regional school district, district, as defined in section 7-324, metropolitan district, and each municipal corporation, organization or authority and taxing district not previously mentioned in this subdivision;
(3) “Out-of-state bank” means an out-of-state bank, as defined in section 36a-2;
(4) “Public funds” means any moneys collected or received by, or in the custody of, any person and belonging to, or held in trust for, the municipality, including, but not limited to, moneys held in trust or for some public or charitable purpose by the municipality; and
(5) “Qualified public depository” means a qualified public depository, as defined in section 36a-330.
(1949 Rev., S. 831; 1955, S. 369d; 1959, P.A. 152, S. 15; 1967, P.A. 517, S. 13; P.A. 73-609, S. 2, 4; P.A. 75-256, S. 2, 5; P.A. 83-331, S. 1; P.A. 95-282, S. 2, 11; P.A. 96-244, S. 38, 63.)
History: 1959 act deleted provisions for administration of funds by counties; 1967 act raised amount of deposit allowed in single bank to 75% of bank's resources; P.A. 73-609 redefined “bank” to remove phrase “and is organized under ... the banking laws of the United States or of this state”; P.A. 75-256 added general loss reserve to listing of bank assets in Subsec. (b); P.A. 83-331 amended Subsec. (a) to include share accounts, term share accounts and share certificate accounts in the definition of “deposit” or “deposits”; P.A. 95-282 repealed previous provisions and revised definitions, effective July 6, 1995, provided “any designation of a depository of public funds of the state or any municipality or regional school district, and any prescription of the method of supervision of the investment and reinvestment of trust funds of a municipality, made in accordance with the applicable provisions of sections 4-33, 7-401, 7-402, 7-403, subsection (c) of section 10-52 or subsection (d) of section 10-56 in effect on or before July 6, 1995, shall remain in effect until rescinded or otherwise modified in accordance with the provisions of public act 95-282” (Revisor's note: The reference to “section 10-52” appears to be a clerical error since Subsec. (c) of Sec. 10-51 was amended by Sec. 5 of P.A. 95-282); P.A. 96-244 revised effective date section of P.A. 95-282 but without affecting this section.
See Sec. 3-24 re deposit of funds by State Treasurer.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 112 - Municipal Finance › Section 7-403. - Deposit of funds in custodian account.

Any municipality which has accepted, assumed or received or which holds or manages any trust fund under the provisions of section 7-148 or 11-20 or other provisions of the general statutes may place such funds in a custodian account with the trust department of any qualified public depository which has been designated as a depositary of funds of such municipality under the provisions of section 7-402 and may prescribe the method of supervision of the investment and reinvestment of such funds. Such action shall be by vote of (1) the board of selectmen in a town that does not have a charter, special act or home rule ordinance relating to its government; (2) the council, board of aldermen, representative town meeting, board of selectmen or other elected legislative body described in a charter, special act or home rule ordinance relating to the government in a city, consolidated town and city, consolidated town and borough or a town having a charter, special act or home rule ordinance relating to its government; (3) the regional board of education in a regional school district; (4) the board of burgesses or other elected legislative body in a borough; or (5) the district, committee or other elected legislative body in a district, metropolitan district or other municipal corporation. Any gift, devise or bequest to any official, board, commission or agency of any municipality in trust for the benefit of such municipality, or any agency thereof, shall, except as otherwise provided by law, be construed to be a gift, devise or bequest to such town as trustee.
(1955, S. 372d; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 40; P.A. 95-282, S. 4, 11; P.A. 96-244, S. 38, 63.)
History: P.A. 95-403 added provision enumerating authorities responsible for the vote prescribing supervision of investment and reinvestment of funds, effective July 6, 1995, provided “any designation of a depository of public funds of the state or any municipality or regional school district, and any prescription of the method of supervision of the investment and reinvestment of trust funds of a municipality, made in accordance with the applicable provisions of sections 4-33, 7-401, 7-402, 7-403, subsection (c) of section 10-52 or subsection (d) of section 10-56 in effect on or before July 6, 1995, shall remain in effect until rescinded or otherwise modified in accordance with the provisions of public act 95-282” (Revisor's note: The reference to “Sec. 10-52” appears to be a clerical error since Subsec. (c) of Sec. 10-51 was amended by Sec. 5 of P.A. 95-282); P.A. 96-244 revised effective date section of P.A. 95-282 but without affecting this section; (Revisor's note: In 1999, the word “aldermen” was substituted for the word “alderman” in Subdiv. (2) to correct an inaccurate reference).
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 112 - Municipal Finance › Section 7-404. - Bond of city or borough treasurer.

Section 7-404 is repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 833; September, 1957, P.A. 17, S. 2; P.A. 77-614, S. 19(d), 610; P.A. 82-327, S. 12.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 112 - Municipal Finance › Section 7-405. - Expenditures by municipalities and regional school districts before adoption of budgets.

(a) When annual appropriations have not been made by a municipality before the beginning of any fiscal year, the disbursing officers may make necessary expenditures during the period of ninety days after the beginning of such year on proper warrants for purposes and in amounts authorized by the appropriating body or by the board of finance or other budget-making authority. When annual appropriations have not been made by such municipality before the end of such ninety-day period, the disbursing officers may make necessary expenditures during successive monthly periods in such year on proper warrants for purposes and in amounts authorized by the appropriating body or by the board of finance or other budget-making authority within the limits of appropriations specified in budgetary line items for the previous fiscal year. For this purpose, necessary borrowing may be authorized by resolution of the budget-making authority, provided all such borrowing shall mature and be payable not later than the end of the fiscal year for which such borrowings are made. Any notes so authorized may be issued and sold in the manner provided by such resolution. Such expenditures authorized by this section and interest costs and other expenses incidental to any such borrowing shall constitute the first charges against appropriations for the fiscal year in which they are made.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, when an annual budget of a regional school district is not approved by a majority of voters of the member towns of such district before the beginning of any fiscal year, the disbursing officer for each member town of the regional school district shall make necessary expenditures to such district in an amount equal to the total of the town's appropriation to the district for the previous fiscal year and the town's proportionate share in any increment in debt service over the previous fiscal year, until the regional school district budget is approved pursuant to section 10-51. Each such town shall receive credit for such expenditures once the budget is approved for the fiscal year.
(1949 Rev., S. 834; P.A. 77-384, S. 1, 2; P.A. 04-117, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 77-384 provided for expenditures when appropriations have not been made before end of ninety-day extension period; P.A. 04-117 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and added Subsec. (b) re authorization to make necessary expenditures when an annual budget of a regional school district is not approved before the beginning of any fiscal year, effective July 1, 2004.
Limitation does not apply to taxing authority of board of selectmen. 217 C. 303.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 112 - Municipal Finance › Section 7-406a. - Report on state-funded housing or building projects prior to municipal election.

No state funds shall be used for the publication or distribution of a report on any municipal housing or building project within one month prior to any municipal election in the town in which such project is located, if such project is funded wholly or in part by state funds.
(P.A. 75-555.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 112 - Municipal Finance › Section 7-406b. - Chief executive officer to submit copy of budget to Secretary of Office of Policy and Management.

Beginning with the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1992, and annually thereafter, the chief executive officer of each town, city, borough, consolidated town and city and consolidated town and borough shall submit one copy of the municipality's annual operating budget, as adopted in accordance with the local budget adoption process, to the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management and such related, reasonably available, budgetary information as the secretary may request pursuant to regulations adopted in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54. The budget shall be submitted by July first of each year or within thirty days after the adoption of the budget, whichever is later.
(P.A. 91-343, S. 3, 11; P.A. 03-278, S. 16.)
History: P.A. 03-278 made technical changes, effective July 9, 2003.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 112 - Municipal Finance › Section 7-406c. - Uniform system of accounting for municipal revenues and expenditures. Municipality to file financial data.

(a) Not later than July 1, 2014, the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall, in consultation with the Department of Education, the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities and the Council of Small Towns, develop and implement a uniform system of accounting for municipal revenues and expenditures, including, but not limited to, board of education and grant agency expenditures and revenue. Such uniform system of accounting shall include a uniform chart of accounts to be used at the municipal level. Such chart of accounts shall include, but not be limited to, all amounts and sources of revenue and donations of cash and real or personal property in the aggregate totaling five hundred dollars or more received by a municipality. The secretary shall make such chart of accounts available on the Internet web site of the Office of Policy and Management.
(b) Not later than June 30, 2015, each municipality shall implement the uniform system of accounting for municipal revenues and expenditures developed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section by using such uniform system to complete and file annual reports with the Office of Policy and Management as may be required by the secretary in order to increase transparency regarding municipal expenditures and to meet the state's benchmarking goals. Any annual report required pursuant to this subsection shall be filed not later than January thirty-first annually.
(c) Not later than January 31, 2023, and annually thereafter, each municipality shall file financial data with the Office of Policy and Management. Such data shall (1) be filed electronically, in a form and manner prescribed by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, and (2) contain such municipality's audited financial statements and any other information required by said secretary to determine the financial condition of such municipality.
(P.A. 13-247, S. 257; P.A. 22-35, S. 5.)
History: P.A. 13-247 effective June 19, 2013; P.A. 22-35 amended Subsec. (b) by adding annual report filing deadline of January 31, and added Subsec. (c) re filing of financial data.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 112a - Municipal Pension Solvency Loan Program › Section 7-406p. - Regulations.

The Treasurer shall, in consultation with the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, to carry out the purposes of sections 7-406n and 7-406o, which may include, but not be limited to, the administrative process for the servicing of loans.
(P.A. 07-204, S. 5.)
History: P.A. 07-204 effective July 1, 2007.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees › Section 7-407. - Method of adoption.

Any political subdivision of this state may adopt the provisions of this part in the manner hereinafter provided. The legislative body or, if there is no such body, the administrative officers of such political subdivision may and, upon petition of electors of such subdivision in number not less than ten per cent of the total number of votes cast therein at the election last preceding, shall submit the question of adopting the provisions of this part in such departments of such political subdivision as such body or officers determine or as such petition requests, as the case may be, to a vote of the electors thereof at the next regular election, or at a special meeting called for such purpose, in the manner provided in section 9-369. The designation of such question upon the voting tabulator ballot shall be “Shall a Merit System for selecting and promoting public employees be adopted?”.
(1949 Rev., S. 869; 1953, S. 399d; P.A. 86-170, S. 7, 13; P.A. 11-20, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 86-170 required that designation on ballot label be in form of question; pursuant to P.A. 11-20, “machine” and “ballot label” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “tabulator” and “ballot”, respectively, effective May 24, 2011.
See Sec. 9-1 for applicable definitions.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees › Section 7-408. - Civil service board; appointment; terms of office; removal.

Within thirty days after such official determination, the chief executive officer of such political subdivision shall appoint three persons as civil service commissioners to hold office, one for two years, one for four years and one for six years, and until their respective successors are appointed and have qualified, which commissioners shall constitute the civil service board; and, biennially thereafter, such chief executive officer shall appoint one commissioner to serve for six years and until his successor is appointed and has qualified. Two commissioners shall constitute a quorum. All appointments to said board, both original and to fill vacancies, shall be so made that not more than two members shall, at the time of appointment, be members of the same political party, and no such commissioner shall, during his term of office, hold any other lucrative office or employment under the United States or the state or any political subdivision thereof having employees classified under the provisions of this part. Each commissioner, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take the oath prescribed for executive officers. The chief executive officer may remove any commissioner appointed by him, for lack of moral character, incompetency, neglect of duty, malfeasance or partisan activity while in office, but he shall, at the same time, file with the clerk of the superior court for the appropriate judicial district a report, in writing, of such removal, with his reasons therefor. In case of any vacancy, the unexpired portion of the term shall be filled by appointment by such chief executive officer.
(1949 Rev., S. 870; P.A. 78-280, S. 2, 127.)
History: P.A. 78-280 substituted “judicial district” for “county”.
Causes for removal of member are listed and local ordinance purporting to prohibit members of board from engaging in political activity is void. 22 CS 110.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees › Section 7-409. - Purpose of part. Rules.

The purpose of this part is to provide means for selecting and promoting each public official and employee upon the sole basis of his proven ability to perform the duties of his office or employment more efficiently than any other candidate therefor, and such board shall make rules to carry out such purpose, shall investigate the enforcement and effect of such rules and shall have power to secure, by subpoena, the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books and papers relevant to such investigation.
(1949 Rev., S. 871.)
Cited. 185 C. 88; 202 C. 28.
Cited. 39 CS 123.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees › Section 7-410. - Civil service board; president; chief examiner.

The board shall select one of its members as president and shall, after holding a competitive test therefor, employ a chief examiner whose duty it shall be, under the direction of the board, to superintend tests. The chief examiner shall be, ex officio, secretary of the board and shall, under the direction of the board, keep the minutes of all its proceedings, preserve all reports made to it, keep a record and index of all tests held under its direction and perform such other like duties as the board prescribes. The files and records of the board shall be open at all reasonable hours to inspection by the public. The board may incur necessary expenses for travel, compensation of secretary, clerk hire, stationery and other incidental expenses.
(1949 Rev., S. 872.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees › Section 7-411. - Classification of officers and employees.

Such civil service board shall, within ninety days after the initial appointment of such commissioners, classify all the officers and employees in the departments for which the merit system has been adopted, except elective officers, as provided in section 7-407; and the board may also, in its discretion, exempt from test and competition the officer responsible for the policy of any department, and one deputy, private secretary or other confidential employee of such officer. The officers and employees so classified by such board shall constitute the classified civil service, and no appointment of any such officer or employment of any such employee shall be made except in accordance with the rules hereinafter provided for.
(1949 Rev., S. 873.)
Cited. 162 C. 492.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees › Section 7-412. - Publication of rules.

All rules made as herein provided and all changes therein shall be printed forthwith for distribution by such board, and the board shall give public notice of the place or places where copies of such rules may be obtained. In each such publication shall be specified the date, not less than ten days subsequent to the date of such publication, when such rules shall take effect. The rules affecting any test shall in no case be changed after the publication of notice of such test.
(1949 Rev., S. 874; P.A. 78-280, S. 2, 127; P.A. 00-191, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 78-280 substituted “judicial district” for “county”; P.A. 00-191 deleted provision requiring that copies of rules and changes be filed with court clerk and preserved and indexed by clerk.
Cited. 162 C. 492.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees › Section 7-413. - Examination of applicants. Certification.

Each applicant for an office or employment in such classified service, except those exempted by or as provided by this part, shall be subjected to a test, which shall be public and competitive, subject to limitations specified in the rules of the board as to residence, age, health, habits and moral character. Such tests shall be practical in their character and shall relate to those matters which will fairly disclose the relative capacity of the persons tested to discharge the duties of the position to which they seek to be appointed, and may include tests of mental qualification, of physical qualification and health and, when appropriate, of manual or technical skill. No questions in any test shall relate to political or religious opinions or affiliations. When a training school has been established in any institution, the pupils thereof may be classified, under the rules of the commission, as apprentices, subject to promotion to higher grades in the service as provided in this part. The rating of apprentices, unskilled laborers and domestic servants need not relate to more than capacity and fitness for labor, habits of industry and sobriety and honesty. The board shall control all tests and may, whenever a test is to be made, designate a suitable number of persons to be examiners or the commissioners may, at any time, act as such examiners without appointing other examiners. Notice of the time, place and general scope of each test shall be given by the board, by ample publication for three weeks preceding such test, and such notice shall also be posted by such board in a conspicuous place in its office for three weeks before such test. Such further written or printed notice of tests may be given as the board prescribes. Application for tests shall be made in writing, to the board, on a form prescribed by the board, not less than forty-eight hours before the test is to take place. The board may refuse to certify an applicant who is found to lack any preliminary requirement, established by its rules, for the test or position for which he applies, or who is found physically unfit to perform the duties attaching to such position, or who is addicted to the use of intoxicating beverages to excess, or who has been guilty of a crime or of infamous or notoriously disgraceful conduct, or who has, within two years, been dismissed from the public service for delinquency or misconduct, or who has intentionally made a false statement of any material fact or practiced or attempted to practice any deception or fraud in his application or in his test or in securing his eligibility to appointment.
(1949 Rev., S. 875.)
Cited. 147 C. 290.
It is the function of the civil service agency to determine fitness for position and its judgment will not be interfered with by courts in absence of proof of its bad faith or arbitrary, capricious or illegal action. 27 CS 1.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees › Section 7-414. - Classified service; eligible list; promotion.

The board shall, from the returns or reports of the tests, prepare a register or eligible list, for each grade or class of positions in the classified service, of the persons who attain such minimum mark as may be fixed by the board for any part of such test as fixed by the rules of such board and who are otherwise eligible. Such persons shall take rank as candidates upon such register or list in the order of their relative excellence as determined by test, without reference to priority of time of test. The board shall provide by its rules for promotions in such classified service on a basis of ascertained merit in service, seniority in service and special test. The board shall submit to the appointing power for each promotion the names of not more than three applicants having the highest rating. The method of testing and the rules governing the same and the method of certifying shall, as far as possible, be the same as provided for applicants for original appointment.
(1949 Rev., S. 876.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees › Section 7-415. - Credit allowances to veterans in examinations for original appointment.

Any veteran who served in time of war, if he is not eligible for disability compensation or pension from the United States through the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and if he has attained at least the minimum earned rating on any examination held for the purpose of establishing an employment list for original appointment shall have five points added to his earned rating. Any such veteran, if he is eligible for such disability compensation or pension and if he has attained at least the minimum earned rating on any such examination, shall have ten points added to his earned rating. Names of veterans shall be placed on the list of eligibles in the order of such augmented rating. Credits shall be based upon examinations with a possible rating of one hundred points. No such points shall be added to any earned rating in any civil service or merit examination except as provided in this section, the provisions of any municipal charter or special act notwithstanding.
(1949 Rev., S. 877; 1957, P.A. 163, S. 13; 1959, P.A. 688, S. 3; 1971, P.A. 551, S. 1; P.A. 18-72, S. 20.)
History: 1959 act deleted reference to definition of veteran in Sec. 27-103; 1971 act specified employment lists for “original employment” rather than lists “as provided in section 7-414” and prohibited adding points except as provided in section; P.A. 18-72 replaced “Veterans' Administration” with “United States Department of Veterans Affairs”.
Cited. 185 C. 445.
Cited. 10 CA 209.
Cited. 41 CS 548.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees › Section 7-416. - Appointments.

The appointing officer under whom a position classified under the provisions of this part is to be filled shall notify the board of that fact, and the board shall certify to him the names and addresses of a limited number of candidates, as provided in its rules, who stand highest upon the register for the class or grade to which such position belongs, and the appointing officer shall select one of the persons so certified. After a candidate has been certified three times by the board and has not been accepted, the name of such candidate may be stricken from the register. Emergency lists of persons who have passed the required tests may be maintained for any grade or class in which the numbers employed vary so greatly, in short intervals of time, that certification after notice would be impracticable, and such list may stand as a call list for positions in such grade or class only; but no appointment from an emergency list, except from the persons having the highest ratings thereon and eligible to permanent appointment, shall stand for more than sixty days or be subject to renewal within fifteen days thereafter, except from a list of unskilled laborers or domestics actually employed and paid as laborers or domestics.
(1949 Rev., S. 878.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees › Section 7-417. - Probation; notice of appointment or of creation or abolition of office.

Appointments shall be on probation for a period to be fixed by the rules of the board. At the expiration of such period of probation, the appointing officer may discharge a candidate at will, but, if he is not then discharged, the appointment shall be deemed complete. The board may strike from any eligible list the name of any candidate which has remained thereon more than one year. After one-third of an eligible list has been drawn, the board may hold another examination to obtain a new list. Any person remaining on the eligible list may retain his rating or, at his option, may enter the test and obtain a new rating which shall supersede his former rating. Immediate notice in writing shall be given by the appointing power to the board of all appointments, permanent or temporary, made in the classified civil service and of all transfers, promotions, resignations or vacancies from any cause in such service, and of the date thereof, and a record of the same shall be kept by the board. When any office or employment is created or abolished or the compensation attached thereto altered, the officer or board making such change shall report it immediately in writing to the board.
(1949 Rev., S. 879.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees › Section 7-418. - Inmates of institutions excepted.

Inmates of any institution, supported in and by any political subdivision of the state, in which the merit system is adopted and a civil service board appointed, may be assigned, by the lawful authorities thereof, without test or registration, to such minor duties, in such institution, as they are fitted to perform, but without pay or compensation other than privileges or liberties of the institution, except by special permission of the civil service board.
(1949 Rev., S. 880.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees › Section 7-419. - Removal of officers or employees.

No officer or employee in the classified civil service shall be removed, discharged or reduced in rank or pay because of religious or political opinion or affiliation. No removal from the classified civil service, except at the expiration of the period of probation, shall be made by any appointing power except for reasons given in writing to the board, and a copy of such reasons shall be furnished to the person removed. Such person may thereupon file with the board in writing any proper answer to such reasons. A copy of such reasons and answer and of the order of removal shall be made a part of the records of the board and of the proper department or office; and the reasons for any change in rank or compensation within the classified service shall also be made a part of the records of the board and of the proper department or office. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be so construed as to require the examination of witnesses or any trial or hearing before or after reduction or removal.
(1949 Rev., S. 881.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees › Section 7-420. - Interference with or false grading of applicants.

No person shall, either by himself or in cooperation with any other person or persons, wilfully or corruptly defeat, deceive or obstruct any person in relation to his right of test under the provisions of this part, or falsely mark, grade, estimate or report upon the test or standing of any person so tested hereunder, or aid in so doing, or furnish to any person any special or secret information for the purpose of either improving or injuring the rating of any person so tested, or to be tested, or the prospects of any such person for appointment, employment or promotion.
(1949 Rev., S. 882.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees › Section 7-421a. - Inconsistent statutory or charter provisions.

Notwithstanding any general statute, special act or local law, ordinance or charter to the contrary, the provisions of section 7-421 shall apply to all municipal employees in the classified service.
(P.A. 76-424, S. 2, 4; P.A. 80-325, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 80-325 specified employees in the classified service.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees › Section 7-421b. - Limitation on restrictions of political rights of municipal employees.

Notwithstanding any general statute, special act or local law, ordinance or charter to the contrary, any municipality which has not adopted a merit system shall not impose restrictions on the political rights of its employees other than those provided in section 7-421.
(P.A. 80-325, S. 2.)
Cited. 41 CS 295.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees › Section 7-422. - Personnel appeals board. Appeal to Superior Court.

Any town, city or borough may, by ordinance, create a personnel appeals board which shall consist of five members who shall be electors of such municipality holding no salaried municipal office and whose term of office and method of election or appointment shall be fixed in the ordinance. Not more than three members shall be members of the same political party. The terms of office shall be arranged so that not more than one of such terms shall expire in any one year. Vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired portion of the term in the manner fixed in the ordinance. Three members shall constitute a quorum. Said board shall hear and determine any grievance, as defined in such ordinance, of any employee or group of employees of such town, city or borough. It shall adopt rules of procedures which shall insure any aggrieved employee a prompt and fair hearing and an opportunity to be heard in person or by a representative of his choosing. The decision of said board may be appealed to the Superior Court within ninety calendar days from the date such board renders its decision.
(1953, S. 401d; P.A. 73-654; P.A. 76-436, S. 416, 681.)
History: P.A. 73-654 allowed appeal from decision of board to court of common pleas, replacing former provision that board decisions were to be final and binding upon the parties; P.A. 76-436 substituted superior court for court of common pleas, effective July 1, 1978.
Cited. 8 CA 165; 26 CA 45.
Allows but does not require any town, city or borough to create a personnel appeals board. 35 CS 645.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees › Section 7-423. - Technical services by Department of Administrative Services.

Any municipality or other political subdivision of the state may enter into an agreement with the Commissioner of Administrative Services to procure the technical services available in the Department of Administrative Services for the establishment or continuation of local administration of a merit system. Any such agreement shall provide for the reimbursement of the state for the actual cost of such services and overhead, as determined by the commissioner.
(1953, S. 402d; P.A. 77-614, S. 66, 610; P.A. 01-195, S. 109, 181.)
History: P.A. 77-614 substituted commissioner and department of administrative services for personnel commissioner and department; P.A. 01-195 made technical changes, effective July 11, 2001.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees › Section 7-424. - Penalty.

Any person who, wilfully or through culpable negligence, violates any rule promulgated in accordance with the provisions of this part shall be fined not less than the amount of one month's salary of the office or position, or offices or positions, affected by such violation, nor more than the amount of two years' salary thereof, or, in case no office or position is directly affected, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than six months or be both fined and imprisoned.
(1949 Rev., S. 884.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees › Section 7-426. - Separate funds. Retirement rate.

Section 7-426 is repealed.
(1957, P.A. 447, S. 2; September, 1957, P.A. 10, S. 5; P.A. 93-356, S. 15.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees › Section 7-427a. - Enrollment procedures for employees of regional workforce development boards. Rights of previously retired members unaffected. Transfer of contributions.

If the majority of the members of a regional workforce development board vote to participate in this part, employees of a regional workforce development board who are eligible under section 7-425, and who are not members of the Municipal Employees' Retirement Fund B shall become members thereof on July 1, 1998. Membership in any other retirement system shall terminate on said date. The members of a regional workforce development board shall arrange for termination of such systems, which arrangements shall include provision that the rights of members who retired prior to July 1, 1998, under such system shall not be affected and provision that any refunds of employee contributions made to such other retirement system shall be transferred to the Municipal Employees' Retirement Fund B and the appropriate amount credited to the account of each transferring employee's benefit. Each employee of the regional workforce development board shall pay his pro rata share of the actual cost of such transfer at no additional cost to the municipality or board.
(P.A. 97-152, S. 3; P.A. 21-40, S. 6.)
History: P.A. 21-40 made technical change.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees › Section 7-427b. - Credit for prior service with private industry council or regional workforce development board.

(a) Any employee of a regional workforce development board which has voted to participate in this part who previously was an employee of a private industry council shall receive credit for the purposes of retirement under the provisions of this part for the period of his service with the private industry council upon payment to the Municipal Employees' Retirement Fund of a sum equal to that which he would have paid had such service been covered by the provisions of this part, provided such sum is paid within one year of the date of such board's first participation in this part.
(b) Any employee of a regional workforce development board which has voted to participate in this part shall receive credit for the purposes of retirement under the provisions of this part for the period of his service with such board when such board was not participating under the provisions of this part upon payment to the Municipal Employees' Retirement Fund of a sum equal to that which he would have paid had such service been covered by the provisions of this part, provided such sum is paid within one year of the date of such board's first participation in this part.
(P.A. 97-152, S. 4; P.A. 21-40, S. 7.)
History: P.A. 21-40 made technical change.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees › Section 7-428. - Retirement on account of length of service and age.

Any member of fund B shall be eligible for retirement and to receive a retirement allowance upon completing twenty-five years of aggregate service in a participating municipality or upon attaining the age of fifty-five years, provided such employee has had five years of continuous service or fifteen years of active aggregate service in a participating municipality.
(1949 Rev., S. 887; 1957, P.A. 447, S. 4; March, 1958, P.A. 16, S. 1; February, 1965, P.A. 346, S. 1; 1967, P.A. 816; P.A. 75-293, S. 2; P.A. 93-356, S. 3; P.A. 01-80, S. 6.)
History: 1965 act authorized retirement of Fund A members after 35 years of aggregate service; 1967 act reduced requirement for 30 years' service under fund B to 25 years' service; P.A. 75-293 allowed retirement under fund B at age 55 with 10 years' continuous service in addition to retirement at 55 with 15 years' active aggregate service; P.A. 93-356 deleted provisions re retirement for fund A members; P.A. 01-80 replaced “ten years” with “five years”.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees › Section 7-429. - Retirement of elective officers.

If any member of a participating municipality who is an elective officer is separated from the service of the municipality by which he is employed, except for cause or by resignation, after attaining the age of sixty years and after completing at least twenty years of continuous service but before reaching the voluntary retirement age, he shall be entitled to a retirement allowance upon reaching the voluntary retirement age; provided, at the option of the elective officer, the retirement allowance may commence on the date of such separation and be payable in such an amount as may be determined by the Retirement Commission to be the actuarial equivalent of the retirement allowance that would have been payable except for the election of such option.
(1957, P.A. 130.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees › Section 7-430. - Involuntary retirement; temporary retention.

Any member, other than an elective officer, shall be retired at any time after such member has become eligible for retirement upon the recommendation of the legislative body of the municipality by which he is employed. Any member, except an elective officer, who has attained the age of sixty-five years if employed as a policeman or fireman shall be retired on the day following the attainment of such age, except that any such member, at his request and with the annual approval of the legislative body, may be retained in the employ of the participating municipality, but such person shall receive no pension payments during the period he is so retained; provided, for any member, except an elective officer, who at or before the end of three years after the effective date of participation has attained the age of sixty-five years if employed as a policeman or fireman, the compulsory retirement date shall be the end of such three years after such effective date, unless application for retirement is made before such compulsory date by the legislative body of the municipality.
(1949 Rev., S. 889; 1953, S. 405d; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 47; P.A. 89-162, S. 1, 3; P.A. 93-356, S. 4.)
History: P.A. 89-162 allowed policemen and firemen to work after the age of 65 with the annual approval of the legislative body of the employing municipality; P.A. 93-356 deleted a provision prohibiting police officers and firefighters from retaining active membership in the municipal employees' retirement system upon attaining age 65.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 113 - Municipal Employees › Section 7-431. - Separation from service before voluntary retirement age.

Any member of fund B separated from the service of the municipality by which the member is employed, except for cause, after completing at least five years of continuous service but before reaching the voluntary retirement age, shall be entitled to a retirement allowance upon reaching the voluntary retirement age; provided, at the option of the member, the retirement allowance may commence on the date of such separation and be payable in such an amount as may be determined by the Retirement Commission to be the actuarial equivalent of the retirement allowance that would have been payable except for the election of such option.
(1955, S. 406d; 1957, P.A. 447, S. 5; 1967, P.A. 815; P.A. 93-356, S. 5; P.A. 01-80, S. 7.)
History: 1967 act changed years of service from 15 to 10 re fund B employees; P.A. 93-356 deleted provisions re fund A members separated from municipal service prior to reaching voluntary retirement age; P.A. 01-80 replaced “ten years” with “five years” and made a technical change for the purpose of gender neutrality.
Cited. 178 C. 23.