Title 7 — Title 7: Municipalities

Sec. 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…

Sec. 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, on…

Sec. 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 the…

Sec. 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 chi…

Sec. 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 of…

Sec. 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 publicatio…

Sec. 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…

Sec. 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…

Sec. 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 at…

Sec. 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 it…

Sec. 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,…

Sec. 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 regi…

Sec. 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 expira…

Sec. 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…

Sec. 7-421. Political activities of classified municipal employees. Candidacy of municipal employees for elective office. Leaves of absence. Service on governmental bodies of the town in which the employee resides. (a) No person employed in the classified civil service may (1) us…

Sec. 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;…

Sec. 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 poli…

Sec. 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 offic…

Sec. 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 Admi…

Sec. 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…

Sec. 7-425. Definitions. The following words and phrases as used in this part, except as otherwise provided, shall have the following meanings: (1) “Municipality” means any town, city, borough, school district, regional school district, taxing district, fire district, district de…

Sec. 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.)

Sec. 7-427. Participation by municipalities. (a) Any municipality except a housing authority, which is governed by subsection (b) of this section or a regional workforce development board established under section 31-3k, which is governed by section 7-427a, may, by resolution pas…

Sec. 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, employ…

Sec. 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 r…

Sec. 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-fi…

Sec. 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 co…

Sec. 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 …

Sec. 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…

Sec. 7-432. Disability retirement: Application; continuance; calculation of income. Reconsideration. (a) Any member shall be eligible for disability retirement and for a disability retirement allowance who has completed at least ten years of continuous service if such member beco…

Secs. 7-433 and 7-433a. Disability or death of firemen or policemen caused by hypertension or heart disease. Sections 7-433 and 7-433a are repealed. (1951, 1953, 1955, S. 407d; 1959, P.A. 366; 1961, P.A. 330, S. 1, 2; 1967, P.A. 770, S. 1; 1969, P.A. 380, S. 1; P.A. 92-81, S. 2, …

Sec. 7-433b. Survivors' benefits for firemen and policemen. Maximum cumulative payment. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general statute, charter or special act to the contrary affecting the noncontributory or contributory retirement systems of any municipality of the st…

Sec. 7-433c. Benefits for policemen or firemen disabled or dead as a result of hypertension or heart disease. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of chapter 568 or any other general statute, charter, special act or ordinance to the contrary, in the event a uniformed member of a pai…

Sec. 7-433d. Injury or death of fireman while engaged in fire duties with another company. Any uniformed member of a paid fire department who offers his services to an officer or person in charge of another fire company which is actively engaged in fire duties, and whose services…

Sec. 7-434. Continuity of service. Periods of absence of not more than ninety days in any one calendar year shall not be considered as breaking continuity of service. Periods of absence of more than ninety days by reason of a leave of absence granted by the appropriate authority …

Sec. 7-434a. Continuation of membership during service as elected official. Any member of the municipal employees' retirement system elected to serve as an official of the state or any political subdivision of the state during the 1988 calendar year or thereafter may elect, durin…

Sec. 7-435. Retirement benefits for members of fund A. Section 7-435 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 891; 1957, P.A. 447, S. 6; 1959, P.A. 471, S. 1; 1967, P.A. 547, S. 2; 1971, P.A. 644, S. 1; P.A. 79-376, S. 13; P.A. 84-106, S. 2; P.A. 93-356, S. 15.)

Sec. 7-436. Retirement benefits, monthly allowances. (a) Members not covered by Social Security. After retirement, in accordance with the provisions of this part and except as provided in subsection (g) of this section, each member of the municipal employees' retirement system wh…

Sec. 7-436a. Exclusion of period when service was eligible for special act pension system in computation of retirement credit. Inclusion of certain periods of such service. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, in computing the length of service for municipal …

Sec. 7-436b. Credit for military service for members of fund B. (a) Any member of fund B of the municipal employees' retirement system, who, prior to such member's date of employment with a municipality that is participating in said fund B, served in any branch of the armed force…

Sec. 7-437. Retirement allowance and Social Security benefits to equal sum payable under retirement system alone, when. If the commission finds that the sum of (a) any retirement allowance payable to a member under section 7-436 and (b) any concurrent benefit payable to such memb…

Sec. 7-438. Continuation of retirement allowance upon other public employment. Participation in state or municipal retirement system. (a) Any member retired under this part who again accepts employment from the state or from any municipality of the state other than a participatin…

Secs. 7-439 and 7-439a. Optional form of retirement allowance. Survivorship benefits for spouses of certain employees who had not exercised the option. Sections 7-439 and 7-439a are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 893; 1959, P.A. 273; 1967, P.A. 812; 1971, P.A. 622, S. 1; P.A. 86-243, S…

Sec. 7-439b. Cost of living adjustment to retirement allowance. (a) On July 1, 1986, and on July first of each subsequent year the State Retirement Commission shall adjust the retirement allowance of each member of the Municipal Employees' Retirement Fund and any annuitant who is…

Sec. 7-439c. Discharge of liability for increases of retirement allowance. The liability for the increase in benefits provided by sections 7-439b to 7-439d, inclusive, for retirement allowances based on service rendered before July 1, 1979, shall be discharged by extending the pe…

Sec. 7-439d. Section 7-436 limitation not applicable. The limitation of the maximum retirement allowance provided in subsection (d) of section 7-436, shall not be applicable to increases under sections 7-439b, and 7-439c. (P.A. 77-584, S. 3, 5; P.A. 93-356, S. 10; P.A. 02-89, S. …

Sec. 7-439e. Actuarial study by retirement board to determine cost impact of increases. Section 7-439e is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (P.A. 77-584, S. 4, 5; P.A. 02-89, S. 90.)

Sec. 7-439f. Study concerning restructuring of fund. Section 7-439f is repealed, effective June 6, 2024. (P.A. 79-305, S. 2, 4; P.A. 24-151, S. 90.)

Sec. 7-439g. Optional forms of retirement income. Preretirement death benefit. (a) On and after July 1, 1986, a member of the Municipal Employees' Retirement Fund may elect one of the following optional forms for retirement income by filing with the Retirement Commission a writte…

Sec. 7-439h. Erroneous payments; adjustment; waiver of repayment; regulations. (a) Should any change or error in records result in any member or beneficiary receiving from the municipal employees' retirement system more or less than he would have been entitled to receive had the …