Title 4, Title 4: Management of State Agencies

Sec. 4-12a. Governor's powers of suspension or removal under sections 4-11 and 4-12 not applicable to deputies appointed by department heads. Sections 4-11 and 4-12 shall not apply to department heads or deputies appointed by such department heads. (1969, P.A. 481, S. 6; P.A. 77-…

Sec. 4-13. Subpoenas. In case of contumacy by any person or his refusal to obey a subpoena issued to him under section 4-12, any court of this state, within the jurisdiction of which the inquiry is carried on or within the jurisdiction of which such person guilty of contumacy or …

Sec. 4-13a. Appearance of assistant on subpoena of state officer. Whenever any elective state officer or his deputy or any state commissioner or his deputy is subpoenaed to appear before any court in any matter involving the state, he may delegate any assistant having knowledge o…

Sec. 4-14. Transportation allowance for state officers, auditors and Governor's executive secretary. Upon request by any elected state officer, by either auditor of public accounts or by the Governor's executive secretary, the Comptroller shall pay to such officer, auditor or sec…

Sec. 4-15. Expenses of state officers and employees. Except as provided in sections 2-15 and 4-14, the Comptroller shall not draw any order on the Treasurer for any sum to cover any charge for expense for travel to and from his home and the Capitol, or any personal expense while …

Sec. 4-16. Expenses paid by the state. Expenses incurred in the discharge of their official duties by directors of state institutions, members of state boards, commissioners, deputy commissioners and executive heads of state departments and by their subordinates under their direc…

Sec. 4-16a. Indemnification of commissioners. The state shall protect, save harmless and indemnify all department heads as defined in section 4-5, and the Adjutant General from financial loss and expense, including legal fees and costs, if any, arising out of any claim, demand, s…

Sec. 4-17. Meeting attendance of trustees or directors of state-aided institutions. The office of any trustee or director of any institution receiving state aid, appointed by the Governor or the General Assembly, who, for a period of two successive years, has failed to attend any…

Sec. 4-18. Resignations of state officers. The Governor may accept the resignation of any officer whose successor, in case of vacancy in office, he has power to nominate or appoint. (1949 Rev., S. 91.) Where commissioner's findings and conclusions of law did not include a finding…

Sec. 4-19. Appointments to fill vacancies. When the General Assembly is not in session and when no other provision has been made for filling any vacancy in an office, appointment to which is made by the General Assembly or either branch thereof, whether or not on nomination by th…

Sec. 4-1a. Appointed officers, unspecified terms. Unless otherwise provided by law, any appointed official of the state, including any person appointed to a board, commission, council, authority, task force, committee or other body, shall serve at the pleasure of the person or bo…

Sec. 4-2. When nominations are to be made. Except as otherwise provided by law, all nominations to be made by the Governor for appointment to office by the General Assembly or either branch thereof, and all appointments to office to be made by the Governor which require the advic…

Sec. 4-20. Bonding of state officers and employees. (a) The State Insurance and Risk Management Board shall, not later than October 1, 1974, and quadrennially thereafter, set the penalties of the bonds of the following officers, having due regard for the duties and responsibiliti…

Sec. 4-21. Commissioners empowered to take acknowledgment of deeds and other instruments for Connecticut. Prior to October 1, 1995, the Governor may appoint and commission a convenient number of commissioners in each of the other states of the United States, in any territory ther…

Sec. 4-22. State chemists. The Governor shall appoint one or more state chemists, who shall be sworn and shall hold office for two years, unless sooner removed by him, and who shall perform such duties as are or may be prescribed by law. The Governor, within ten days after such a…

Sec. 4-23. Fees of state chemist. A state chemist shall receive, for each analysis made and recorded, ten dollars, and for copies of record, the same fees as clerks of courts; provided, when any analysis is made by order of court, the fees therefor and for a copy of record shall …

Sec. 4-2a. Fingerprinting and criminal history records checks of appointees and nominees. (a) For the purposes of this section, “appointee or nominee” means a person appointed or nominated as a department head, as defined in section 4-5, or as Chief Justice or a judge of the Supr…

Sec. 4-3. Term of office of legislative appointees. The term of office of each officer appointed by the General Assembly or Senate, unless otherwise specially provided by law, shall commence on the first day of July following his appointment. (1949 Rev., S. 50.)

Sec. 4-4. Term of office of executive appointees. The term of office of each officer appointed by the Governor or by the Governor by and with the advice and consent of the General Assembly or either branch thereof, unless otherwise provided by law, shall commence on the first day…

Sec. 4-5. “Department head” defined. As used in sections 4-6, 4-7 and 4-8, the term “department head” means the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, Commissioner of Administrative Services, Commissioner of Revenue Services, Banking Commissioner, Commissioner of Child…

Sec. 4-6. Appointment and term of department heads. Except as otherwise provided by statute, on or before March 1, 1975, and quadrennially thereafter, the Governor shall, with the advice and consent of either house of the General Assembly, appoint each department head in the mann…

Sec. 4-7. Confirmation or rejection of nominations by house of General Assembly. Vacancy appointment. (a) On or before February 1, 1975, and quadrennially thereafter, the Governor shall submit each nomination for a department head to either house of the General Assembly. Such hou…

Sec. 4-8. Qualifications, powers and duties of department heads. (a) Each department head shall: (1) Be qualified by training and experience for the duties of the department head's office; (2) Act as the executive officer of the Governor for accomplishing the purposes of the depa…

Sec. 4-8a. Department head duty to report death of any person in care, custody or control of department. Each department head, as defined in section 4-5, including the Commissioner of Education, and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shall promptly notify the Division of Crim…

Sec. 4-9. Governor to commission officers. The Governor shall commission all officers appointed by him or elected by the General Assembly or by any other authority when a commission is necessary; and shall, when necessary, give certificates of appointment under the seal of the st…

Sec. 4-9a. Appointment of chairpersons and executive directors of boards and commissions. Public members; proportion; definition; exception; online system. Members; terms. (a) The Governor shall appoint the chairperson and executive director, if any, of all boards and commissions…

Sec. 4-9b. Membership of boards, commissions, committees and councils: Qualifications; gender and racial diversity required considerations; coordination with community and similar organizations. Report and analysis. Right of action. (a)(1) Appointing authorities, in cooperation w…

Sec. 4-9c. Confirmation process for appointments to Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut and Board of Regents for Higher Education. Appointments made by the Governor to the Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut and the Board of Regents for Higher Educat…

Sec. 4-9d. Designation of replacement members on governmental bodies. When required officials unable or choose not to serve. (a) Unless otherwise provided by law, an elected or appointed officer of the executive or judicial branch who, as such officer, is required to serve on a b…