Title 4 — Title 4: Management of State Agencies

Sec. 4-166. Definitions. As used in this chapter: (1) “Agency” means each state board, commission, department or officer authorized by law to make regulations or to determine contested cases, but does not include either house or any committee of the General Assembly, the courts, …

Sec. 4-167. Rules of practice. Public inspection. Enforceability. (a) In addition to other regulation-making requirements imposed by law, each agency shall: (1) Adopt as a regulation rules of practice setting forth the nature and requirements of all formal and informal procedures…

Sec. 4-168. Notice prior to action on regulations. Fiscal notes. Hearing or public comment. Posting on eRegulations System. Adoption procedure. Emergency regulations. Technical amendments. (a) Except as provided in subsections (g) and (h) of this section, an agency, not less than…

Sec. 4-168a. Regulations affecting small businesses. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Agency”, “proposed regulation” and “regulation” have the same meanings as provided in section 4-166; and (2) “Small business” means a business entity, including its affiliates, that (A) is inde…

Sec. 4-168b. Regulation-making record. (a) On and after the certification date, the official electronic regulation-making record shall be retained on the eRegulations System for each regulation proposed in accordance with the provisions of section 4-168. Prior to the certificatio…

Sec. 4-168c. Posting of proposed regulations and regulation-making record prior to certification date. Prior to the certification date, any provision of the general statutes that requires the posting of a proposed regulation or the regulation-making record associated with a propo…

Sec. 4-168d. Register of regulatory activity. The Secretary of the State may, in the Secretary's discretion and within available appropriations, periodically publish a register of regulatory activity. The content of the register may include, but shall not be limited to, the text …

Sec. 4-169. Approval of regulation by Attorney General. No adoption, amendment or repeal of any regulation, except a regulation issued pursuant to subsection (g) of section 4-168, shall be effective until the proposed regulation and any revision of a proposed regulation to be res…

Sec. 4-170. Legislative regulation review committee. Submission requirements for regulations. Disapproved regulations. Resubmitted regulations. (a) There shall be a standing legislative committee to review all regulations of the several state departments and agencies following th…

Sec. 4-170a. Review of old regulations. Section 4-170a is repealed. (P.A. 73-512; P.A. 88-317, S. 106, 107.)

Sec. 4-170b. Agency submission to legislative regulation review committee upon failure to submit or resubmit required regulations. On or before December first of each year, each agency shall submit to the standing legislative regulation review committee: (1) A list of every secti…

Sec. 4-171. Submission to General Assembly of disapproved regulations and list of required regulations not submitted or resubmitted to legislative regulation review committee. (a) On or before February fifteenth of each regular session of the General Assembly, the cochairpersons …

Sec. 4-172. Submittal of certified electronic copies of regulations to Secretary of the State. Posting on eRegulations System. Effective date. (a) After approval of a regulation as required by sections 4-169 and 4-170, or after reversal of a decision of the standing legislative r…

Sec. 4-173. Omission of certain regulations from eRegulations System. Link to electronic copy. Maintenance of copy for public inspection. The Secretary of the State may omit from the regulations of Connecticut state agencies posted on the eRegulations System (1) any regulation of…

Sec. 4-173a. Posting of implemented policies and procedures online. Section 4-173a is repealed, effective June 19, 2013. (P.A. 12-92, S. 11; P.A. 13-247, S. 388; 13-274, S. 12.)

Sec. 4-173b. Establishment of eRegulations System. Certification by Secretary of the State. Official compilation. Plan to maintain paper copies. (a) The Secretary of the State shall establish and maintain the eRegulations System, which shall include a compilation of the regulatio…

Sec. 4-174. Petition for regulation. Any interested person may petition an agency requesting the promulgation, amendment, or repeal of a regulation. Each agency shall prescribe by regulation the form for petitions and the procedure for their submission, consideration, and disposi…

Sec. 4-175. Declaratory judgment action to determine validity of a regulation or applicability of a statute, regulation or final decision. (a) If a provision of the general statutes, a regulation or a final decision, or its threatened application, interferes with or impairs, or t…

Sec. 4-176. Declaratory rulings. Petitions. Regulations. (a) Any person may petition an agency, or an agency may on its own motion initiate a proceeding, for a declaratory ruling as to the validity of any regulation, or the applicability to specified circumstances of a provision …

Secs. 4-176a to 4-176d. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 4-176e. Agency hearings. Except as otherwise required by the general statutes, a hearing in an agency proceeding may be held before (1) one or more hearing officers, provided no individual who has personally carried out the function of an investigator in a contested case may…

Sec. 4-177. Contested cases. Notice. Record. (a) In a contested case, all parties shall be afforded an opportunity for hearing after reasonable notice. (b) The notice shall be in writing and shall include: (1) A statement of the time, place, and nature of the hearing; (2) a state…

Sec. 4-177a. Contested cases. Party, intervenor status. (a) The presiding officer shall grant a person status as a party in a contested case if that officer finds that: (1) Such person has submitted a written petition to the agency and mailed copies to all parties, at least five …

Sec. 4-177b. Contested cases. Presiding officer. Subpoenas and production of documents. In a contested case, the presiding officer may administer oaths, take testimony under oath relative to the case, subpoena witnesses and require the production of records, physical evidence, pa…

Sec. 4-177c. Contested cases. Documents. Evidence. Arguments. Statements. (a) In a contested case, each party and the agency conducting the proceeding shall be afforded the opportunity (1) to inspect and copy relevant and material records, papers and documents not in the possessi…

Sec. 4-178. Contested cases. Evidence. In contested cases: (1) Any oral or documentary evidence may be received, but the agency shall, as a matter of policy, provide for the exclusion of irrelevant, immaterial or unduly repetitious evidence; (2) agencies shall give effect to the …

Sec. 4-178a. Contested cases and declaratory ruling proceedings. Review of preliminary, procedural or evidentiary rulings. If a hearing in a contested case or in a declaratory ruling proceeding is held before a hearing officer or before less than a majority of the members of the …

Sec. 4-179. Agency proceedings. Proposed final decision. (a) When, in an agency proceeding, a majority of the members of the agency who are to render the final decision have not heard the matter or read the record, the decision, if adverse to a party, shall not be rendered until …

Sec. 4-180. Contested cases. Final decision. Application to court upon agency failure. (a) Each agency shall proceed with reasonable dispatch to conclude any matter pending before it and, in all contested cases, shall render a final decision within ninety days following the close…

Sec. 4-180a. Indexing of written orders and final decisions. (a) In addition to other requirements imposed by any provision of law, each agency shall index, by name and subject, all written orders and final decisions rendered on or after October 1, 1989, and shall make them avail…

Sec. 4-181. Contested cases. Communications by or to hearing officers and members of an agency. (a) Unless required for the disposition of ex parte matters authorized by law, no hearing officer or member of an agency who, in a contested case, is to render a final decision or to m…

Sec. 4-181a. Contested cases. Reconsideration. Modification. (a)(1) Unless otherwise provided by law, a party in a contested case may, within fifteen days after the personal delivery or mailing of the final decision, file with the agency a petition for reconsideration of the deci…

Sec. 4-182. Matters involving licenses. (a) When the grant, denial or renewal of a license is required to be preceded by notice and opportunity for hearing, the provisions of this chapter concerning contested cases apply. (b) When a licensee has made timely and sufficient applica…

Sec. 4-183. Appeal to Superior Court. (a) A person who has exhausted all administrative remedies available within the agency and who is aggrieved by a final decision may appeal to the Superior Court as provided in this section. The filing of a petition for reconsideration is not …

Sec. 4-184. Appeal from final judgment of Superior Court. An aggrieved party may obtain a review of any final judgment of the Superior Court under this chapter. The appeal shall be taken in accordance with section 51-197b. (1971, P.A. 854, S. 19; P.A. 76-436, S. 475, 681.) Histor…

Sec. 4-184a. Award of reasonable fees and expenses to certain prevailing parties in appeals of agency decisions. (a) For the purposes of this section: (1) “Person” means a person as defined in section 4-166, but excludes (A) an individual with a net worth in excess of five hundre…

Sec. 4-185. Application of chapter. (a) This chapter applies to all agency proceedings commenced on or after July 1, 1989. Each agency proceeding commenced before July 1, 1989, is governed by the law in effect when the proceeding was commenced. (b) Notwithstanding any other provi…

Sec. 4-185a. Validation of certain actions. Section 4-185a is repealed. (P.A. 73-620, S. 16, 19; P.A. 88-317, S. 106, 107.)

Sec. 4-186. Chapter 54 exemptions and conflicts. (a) Appeals from denial of compensation under the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program or imposition of a penalty pursuant to section 31-49r, appeals from the decisions of the administrator of the Unemployment Compensation Ac…

Secs. 4-187 and 4-188. Unemployment compensation, employment security and manpower appeals. Employment Security Division and the Board of Mediation and Arbitration exempt. Sections 4-187 and 4-188 are repealed. (1972, P.A. 293, S. 2, 3; P.A. 75-557; P.A. 88-317, S. 106, 107.)

Sec. 4-188a. Requirements for exemption of constituent units of state system of higher education. The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to the constituent units of the state system of higher education, provided the board of trustees for each such constituent unit shall (…

Sec. 4-189. Repeal of inconsistent provisions. Any provisions in the general statutes that are inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter are repealed, provided nothing contained in this chapter shall be deemed to repeal provisions in the general statutes that provide for t…

Secs. 4-189a to 4-189g. Reserved for future use.