Title 9, Cities and Towns

A. A municipality that issues licenses shall provide the following information to an applicant at the time the applicant obtains an application for a license: 1. A list of all of the steps the applicant is required to take in order to obtain the license. 2. The applicable licensi…

The municipality shall publish, or prominently place on the municipal website, at least annually a directory summarizing the subject matter of all currently applicable ordinances, codes and substantive policy statements. The municipality shall keep copies of this directory and al…

The governing body may receive complaints concerning ordinances, codes, substantive policy statements or municipality practices alleged to violate this article. The governing body may review any ordinance, code, substantive policy statement or municipal practice alleged to violat…

A. An applicant for a license subject to this article may request a municipality to clarify its interpretation or application of a statute, ordinance, code or authorized substantive policy statement affecting the procurement of that license by providing the municipality with a wr…

This article does not apply to: 1. An ordinance, code, regulation or substantive policy statement that relates only to the internal management of a municipality and that does not directly and substantially affect the procedural or substantive rights or duties of any segment of th…

A. Unless authorized by federal, state or local law a city or town may not take any action that materially increases the regulatory burdens on a business unless there is a threat to the health, safety and welfare of the public that has not been addressed by legislation or industr…

A. A city or town may not impose an occupational licensing requirement on any occupation, trade or profession unless the new occupational licensing requirement is necessary to protect the health, safety or welfare of the public. B. Beginning August 3, 2018, a city or town may not…

A. Notwithstanding any other law, if a municipality requires a license or permit for any free speech or assembly activity or any activity that changes the use, appearance or density of a structure or land, the municipality shall specify in clear and unambiguous language the crite…

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Classification" means the names of the positions, and the ranks and classes thereof, in the police and fire departments and peace officers' units subject to this article. 2. "Month" means thirty days. 3. "Peace officers"…

This article shall not be construed to apply to a person holding a courtesy or honorary commission in the police, peace officers or fire forces of a city or town, or to persons not appointed in accordance with the rules, regulations, ordinances, charter provisions or statutes con…

A person, municipal corporation or other political subdivision of the state violating any provision of this article is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor.

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Board" means the police pension board. 2. "Department" means the police department. 3. "Departmental member" means a member of the police pension board chosen from among the members of the department other than the chief…

In each city having a population, according to the last federal census, of not less than twenty thousand inhabitants, there is created, and in each incorporated city or town having a population of less than twenty thousand inhabitants, there may be created by ordinance, a police …

A. The police pension fund shall be administered by a police pension board. In cities in which the provisions of this article are or shall hereafter become mandatory, the board shall be composed of the president of the civil service commission, if there is one, and if there is no…

The governing body of a municipality, within thirty days after the provisions of this article become effective as to the municipality, shall call an election for the purpose of selecting departmental members of the board. The election shall be held at the city or town hall or suc…

The terms of office of departmental members of the board shall end at noon on the third Monday in January of the year following the year in which they are elected, but the members shall continue to serve until their successors are elected and qualify.

A vacancy occurring in the departmental membership of the board shall be filled at a special election. Notice of the election shall be given not less than one week prior thereto. The election shall be called by the governing body upon occurrence of the vacancy.

The oath of office shall be administered to departmental members by the presiding officer of the board.

No member of the board shall receive compensation for services performed as a member or employee of the board. The ex officio members shall be liable on their official bonds for any misconduct in connection with the performance of their duties as such.

Within one week after declaration of the result of the first election held as prescribed in section 9-914, the chairman ex officio of the board shall call a meeting for the purpose of organization, the adoption of rules and such other action as may be necessary to carry out the p…

The board shall hold regular monthly meetings on a date fixed by its rules, and such other meetings, after due notice to each member, as the board deems necessary. A majority of the members shall constitute a quorum, but no retirement shall be ordered, application for pension app…

A. The police pension board shall have exclusive control and management of the police pension fund, subject to this article. It shall make rules, not inconsistent with this article, for its government, the conduct of its proceedings and the management of the fund, and shall do al…

The board shall submit a written report to the governing body on the first Monday in January of each year, showing in detail the condition of the fund and transactions of the board during the preceding year.

A. The police pension fund shall consist of: 1. Five per cent of the compensation paid to each member of the department to be deducted from each salary warrant issued in payment for the services of a member, which shall be refunded to any member who is discharged or otherwise sep…

Pensions shall be paid from the fund in cases specified in this section and sections 9-925 through 9-928. It is the intention to restrict the operation of this article to situations not covered by the workers' compensation law and to prohibit payments from the fund to persons rec…

A. A member of the police department whose membership began prior to July 1, 1952 and who serves the department twenty years in the aggregate may, upon application, be retired, and shall be paid during his lifetime a monthly pension equal to fifty per cent of the average monthly …

A. Any member who has served in the department an aggregate of five years, and who, within the hours he is required to be on active duty, and while engaged in the performance of his duty, contracts a disease or sustains an injury due to his occupation, not compensable under the w…

A. If upon the death, from any cause, of a member retired under the provisions of section 9-925, or of a member after ten years' service and while in the service, or if upon the death of a member retired under the provisions of section 9-926 resulting from disease contracted or i…

A. A person who has been retired from service under the provisions of this article and awarded compensation in accordance therewith, and who after retirement receives a salary as an officer or employee of the municipality from which he was retired shall forfeit and shall not at a…

A retirement shall not be ordered, or an application for pension allowed, or a warrant or check drawn upon the fund until there is to the credit of the fund a sum equal to one hundred and fifty dollars for each member of the department.

Monies paid from the fund shall be paid by the treasurer only upon warrants signed by the chairman and countersigned by the secretary of the board.

A. No pension allowed under this article shall be subject to garnishment, attachment, judgment, execution or other legal process. No person entitled to a pension shall have the right to assign it, nor shall the board recognize an attempted assignment of the pension or pay over an…

A member, whether active or temporarily retired, ordered by the board to undergo a physical examination, shall submit himself for examination before the chief medical officer of the municipality, or such other regularly licensed and practicing physician as the board designates, b…

A member of a police department who served in the military establishment of the United States during a period of national emergency immediately following service as a member of the police department, shall not be required to contribute to the police pension fund by salary deducti…

A. Effective from and after June 30, 1968, this article shall be amended, and employees employed after June 30, 1968, shall be covered by the provisions of the public safety retirement personnel system in those cities which have established a pension system under the provisions o…

A. The proceeds of the annual tax provided by law on the gross amount of all premiums received on policies and contracts of fire insurance covering property within this state, after deducting cancellations, return premiums, dividends and the amount received as reinsurance on busi…

As used in this article, "volunteer fire company" includes "volunteer fire district".

Not later than July 31 of each year, the state treasurer, using the information provided by the cities and towns and legally organized fire districts, the office of the state fire marshal, the department of insurance and financial institutions and the department of revenue as pro…

The office of the state fire marshal shall certify the existence of fire districts organized under title 48 and fire departments of incorporated cities and towns. The office of the state fire marshal shall provide this information annually to the state treasurer pursuant to secti…

A. The mayor or the mayor's designee, the fire chief, the elected chief and secretary-treasurer of a fire district or, if administered by a district board, a board member and the fire chief, four members elected from the fire department or from the fire district and one lay membe…

A. The board of trustees shall elect from its members the president and secretary of the board for the ensuing year. The city or town treasurer, or the county treasurer, as the case may be, shall be treasurer, except that if the board of trustees of a fire district assumes the re…

A. The board shall cause an annual audit and report of the fire fighters' relief and pension fund. B. The secretary shall report, using a form approved by the office of the state fire marshal, annually on or before January 1 to the board the condition of the fire fighters' relief…

A. The board may compel witnesses to attend and testify on any matter pertaining to this article, and its president or any member may administer oaths. The board may provide for payment of its necessary expenses, except that no compensation is payable to members of the board for …

A. Notwithstanding any other law, if a fire district that is organized pursuant to section 48-803 and that has at least five full-time firefighters, excluding firefighters employed by the fire district pursuant to a contract with a corporation, elects to provide coverage to its f…

A. The board of trustees may grant temporary relief and assistance from the fund to any qualified member of a legally organized volunteer fire district or department, or to such member's surviving spouse or surviving dependents. B. The president, secretary and board shall provide…

If a beneficiary is declared to be an incapacitated person, pursuant to section 14-5101, or disobeys any requirement of this article, the board may order his pension or allowance discontinued. Thereafter his benefit is payable to his immediate dependents or to his guardian.