Title 3 — Title 3: State Elective Officers

Sec. 3-1. General powers and duties. The supreme executive power of the state shall be vested in the Governor. He may, personally or through any authorized agent, investigate into, and take any proper action concerning, any matter involving the enforcement of the laws of the stat…

Sec. 3-10. Maintenance of the Governor's residence. Foundations established re Governor's residence. Disclosure of income, expenditures, contributions, officers and state employees. (a) The land, buildings, furnishings and improvements of the Governor's official residence shall b…

Sec. 3-10a. Governor to take steps to assure federal aid for higher education. Section 3-10a is repealed. (1961, P.A. 534; 1967, P.A. 585, S. 5.)

Sec. 3-10b. Governor may request waiver of certain federal-aid program requirements re administration of aid. (a) The Governor is authorized to request the head of any federal department administering a grant-in-aid program under any federal law which requires that a single state…

Sec. 3-10c. Appropriation to be used by or on behalf of former Governor. (a) The Comptroller shall make available during the period of one year from the date a former Governor shall leave office, upon submission of proper vouchers, the sum of not more than ten thousand dollars, w…

Sec. 3-10d. Reactivation of military units for parades, celebrations or other ceremonies. The Governor may reactivate any military unit of the state or of the colony of Connecticut for participation in any parade, celebration or other ceremony taking place within or outside the s…

Sec. 3-10e. Transferred to Chapter 814b, Sec. 46a-41.

Sec. 3-10f. Flying flags at half-staff. (a) In the event of the death of a present or former principal figure of state government or of a member of the armed forces, as defined in section 27-103, who is from Connecticut and dies in the line of duty, the Governor may proclaim that…

Sec. 3-1a. Council on Gubernatorial Incapacity. Composition. Duties. (a) There is established a Council on Gubernatorial Incapacity consisting of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the president pro tempore of the Senate, the speaker of the House of Representatives, the mino…

Sec. 3-2. Salaries of Governor and Lieutenant Governor. Timing of increases. Office of Governor full time. (a) On and after January 4, 2023, the Governor shall receive an annual salary equal to the annual salary of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court under subsection (a) of se…

Sec. 3-2a. Pensions for Governors and their spouses. (a) Any person who has served as Governor of this state, having been elected to said office or having exercised the powers and authority of said office on the death or resignation of the Governor, and who has attained the age o…

Sec. 3-2b. Footstones, flags and funeral honor guards for deceased Governors, certain other state officers and members of the General Assembly. The Commissioner of Veterans Affairs shall cause to be erected at the grave of any person who has served as Governor, Lieutenant Governo…

Sec. 3-3. Governor's cabinet. The Governor's cabinet shall consist of not more than fourteen of the administrative heads of the state government as appointed by the Governor. Said cabinet shall meet at the request of the Governor, to advise and confer concerning matters of state …

Sec. 3-4. Executive secretary and clerk; executive journal. Section 3-4 is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (1949 Rev., S. 80, 3586, subs. (7); S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)

Sec. 3-5. Governor to institute lawsuits for state. The Governor is authorized to cause any suit or action at law to be brought in the name of the state, when in his judgment the interests of the state demand that such suit or action at law be brought. (1949 Rev., S. 82.) See Sec…

Sec. 3-6. Investigatory authority of Governor. The Governor shall have such investigatory authority as is conferred or imposed upon the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management in section 4-67. He may, from time to time, investigate duplication of work and the efficiency …

Sec. 3-6a. Power of Governor to restrict use of streets and highways during extreme weather conditions. (a) Whenever an emergency situation exists because of extreme weather conditions or other acts of nature, other than as is provided in section 28-9, requiring the restriction o…

Sec. 3-6b. Transportation emergencies: Powers of Governor and joint legislative committee; publication requirements; penalty for violation of emergency order or interference with emergency activities. (a) In the event of a state-wide or regional transportation emergency, the Gove…

Sec. 3-6c. Compacts between Connecticut and other states or Indian tribes. Amendments. General Assembly approval or rejection. Within ten days after the date of execution of any compact or amendment to a compact between the state of Connecticut and another state or an Indian trib…

Sec. 3-6d. Highway safety programs. Securing of federal funds. Regulations. (a) The Governor shall do all things necessary or convenient, on behalf of the state, to secure all benefits available to the state under the federal Highway Safety Act of 1966, as amended from time to ti…

Sec. 3-7. Cancellation of uncollectible claims. Compromise of disputed claims. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, any uncollectible claim for an amount of five thousand dollars or less may be cancelled upon the books of any state department or agency upon the au…

Sec. 3-8. Restoration and repair of state boundary marks. The Governor shall, in 1975 and decennially thereafter, or whenever any monument or other boundary mark between this state and an adjoining state has become damaged, displaced or destroyed, appoint an agent authorized to a…

Sec. 3-9. Automobile for use of the Governor. An automobile shall be provided for the use of the Governor, to be purchased, maintained and operated at the expense of the state from moneys appropriated for expenses of the Governor. (1949 Rev., S. 81.)