Title 6, Title 6: Counties and County Officers. Judicial and State Marshals

Sec. 6-32. Duties. Cost of serving a civil protection order. (a) Each state marshal shall receive each process directed to such marshal when tendered, execute it promptly and make true return thereof; and shall, without any fee, give receipts when demanded for all civil process d…

Secs. 6-32a and 6-32b. Prisoner transportation and courthouse security system; Sheriffs' Advisory Board established. Powers and duties of Sheriffs' Advisory Board. Sections 6-32a and 6-32b are repealed, effective December 1, 2000. (P.A. 80-394, S. 1, 2, 13; P.A. 81-235; P.A. 87-4…

Sec. 6-32c. Court security officer. Definition. Appointment. Training. Duties. Discharge. Section 6-32c is repealed. (P.A. 80-394, S. 3, 13; P.A. 81-437, S. 10, 12; P.A. 84-397, S. 6, 7.)

Sec. 6-32d. Responsibility for transportation and custody of prisoners. Lafayette Street courthouse. Judicial marshals: Employment standards. (a) Except as otherwise agreed between the Judicial Department and the Department of Correction or other appropriate agency, the responsib…

Sec. 6-32e. Employment of criminal offenders, excepted. Sections 46a-79 to 46a-81, inclusive, shall not be applicable to the prisoner transportation and courthouse security system, provided nothing herein shall be construed to preclude the prisoner transportation and courthouse s…

Sec. 6-32f. Courthouse security. Judicial marshals: Employment standards. (a) The Judicial Department shall be responsible for courthouse security and shall employ judicial marshals for such purpose. The Chief Court Administrator shall establish employment standards and implement…

Sec. 6-32g. Criminal record background investigation of applicants for employment as judicial marshal after December 1, 2000. After December 1, 2000, the Chief Court Administrator shall require an applicant for employment as a judicial marshal pursuant to sections 6-32d and 6-32f…

Sec. 6-32h. Employment of staff for transferred functions of county sheriff system by Chief Court Administrator. The Chief Court Administrator shall employ, within available appropriations for such purpose, such staff as are necessary to support the transferred functions of the c…

Secs. 6-33 and 6-33a. Salaries. Reimbursement to state for use of motor vehicle owned or leased by state, when. Sections 6-33 and 6-33a are repealed, effective June 11, 2018. (1949 Rev., S. 3619; 1951, 1955, S. 1977d; 1959, P.A. 152, S. 10; February, 1965, P.A. 420, S. 1; 1967, P…

Sec. 6-34. Suppressing mobs. Taxation of expenses. Section 6-34 is repealed, effective December 1, 2000. (1949 Rev., S. 3620; P.A. 00-99, S. 153, 154.)

Sec. 6-35. Failure to pay money collected within required time. A state marshal shall pay over, to the person authorized to receive it, any money collected by such state marshal on behalf of or on account of such person not later than thirty calendar days from the date of collect…

Sec. 6-36. Removal from office by General Assembly. Section 6-36 is repealed, effective June 11, 2018. (1949 Rev., S. 455; P.A. 84-108, S. 3; P.A. 18-137, S. 27.)

Secs. 6-37 and 6-37a. Deputies; chief deputy. Reference manual for deputy sheriffs. Sections 6-37 and 6-37a are repealed, effective December 1, 2000. (1949 Rev., S. 456; 1955, S. 192d; P.A. 82-307, S. 7; P.A. 94-177, S. 8; May 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-1, S. 67, 130; P.A. 00-99, S. 15…

Sec. 6-38. Number of state marshals. The number of state marshals to be appointed for Hartford County shall not exceed seventy-two; for New Haven County, sixty-two; for New London County, thirty-eight; for Fairfield County, fifty-five; for Windham County, eighteen; for Litchfield…

Sec. 6-38a. State marshal. Authority to provide legal execution and service of process. (a) For the purposes of the general statutes, “state marshal” means a qualified deputy sheriff incumbent on June 30, 2000, under section 6-38 or appointed pursuant to section 6-38b who shall h…

Sec. 6-38b. State Marshal Commission. Members. Regulations, policies and procedure. Duties. Appointment of state marshal commission to fill vacancy. Rules. (a) There is established a State Marshal Commission which shall consist of eight members appointed as follows: (1) The Chief…

Sec. 6-38c. State Marshals Advisory Board. Members. Election. (a) There is established a State Marshals Advisory Board which shall consist of twenty-four state marshals. Between November 9, 2000, and November 14, 2000, and annually thereafter, the state marshals in each county sh…

Sec. 6-38d. Illegal billing by state marshal. No state marshal shall knowingly bill for, or receive fees for, work that such state marshal did not actually perform. (P.A. 00-99, S. 150, 154.) History: P.A. 00-99 effective December 1, 2000.

Sec. 6-38e. Review and audit of records and accounts of state marshals by State Marshal Commission. The State Marshal Commission shall periodically review and audit the records and accounts of the state marshals. Upon the death or disability of a state marshal, the commission sha…

Sec. 6-38f. State Marshal Commission to appoint state marshals. Evidence of service as a deputy sheriff. Appeal. Notification by deputy sheriffs re desire to be appointed state marshal. Notification of decisions to State Marshal Commission. (a)(1) Notwithstanding the provisions o…

Sec. 6-38g. Notification of Chief Court Administrator by high sheriff of desire to be appointed as state marshal. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 6-38a and 6-38f, no high sheriff who appointed himself or herself a deputy sheriff or has been appointed a deputy sheriff b…

Sec. 6-38h. Political contribution to appointing authority for State Marshal Commission affects eligibility for appointment as state marshal. Any person who pays, lends or contributes anything of value to a person who is an appointing authority for the State Marshal Commission un…

Sec. 6-38i. Special deputy sheriffs and deputy sheriffs serving on December 1, 2000, to continue as judicial marshals and employees of Judicial Department. Collective bargaining unit. All special deputy sheriffs serving on December 1, 2000, as prisoner custody and transportation …

Sec. 6-38j. Appointment or removal of deputy sheriff or special deputy sheriff on or after December 1, 2000. Section 6-38j is repealed, effective June 11, 2018. (P.A. 00-99, S. 143, 154; P.A. 18-137, S. 27.)

Sec. 6-38k. Cooperation by high sheriffs with Chief Court Administrator for efficient operation and transition of functions. Section 6-38k is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (P.A. 00-99, S. 144, 154; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)

Sec. 6-38l. Acts prohibited with respect to high sheriffs in the solicitation of contribution or expenditure, committees and referenda. Section 6-38l is repealed, effective June 11, 2018. (P.A. 00-99, S. 149, 154; P.A. 01-195, S. 11, 181; P.A. 03-19, S. 14; P.A. 18-137, S. 27.)

Sec. 6-38m. Annual fee to State Marshal Commission. Commencing October 1, 2001, and not later than October 1, 2008, each state marshal shall pay an annual fee of two hundred fifty dollars to the State Marshal Commission, which fee shall be deposited in the General Fund. Commencin…

Sec. 6-38n. Application by high sheriff for appointment as state marshal. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 6-38, 6-38f and 6-38g, any high sheriff may apply not later than October 1, 2001, to the State Marshal Commission for appointment as a state marshal and may be app…

Sec. 6-39. Bond of state marshal. Each state marshal, before entering upon the duties of a state marshal, shall give to the State Marshal Commission a bond in the sum of ten thousand dollars conditioned that such state marshal will faithfully discharge the duties of state marshal…

Sec. 6-39a. Fee charged by private entity for performing state marshal's statutory duties prohibited. A state marshal shall not be charged any fee by a private entity for performing such state marshal's statutory duties. (P.A. 07-69, S. 2.)

Secs. 6-40 and 6-41. Chief deputies' salaries. Compensation of: Constables for court attendance; deputy sheriffs and special deputy sheriffs for court attendance or services at overnight jail facility. Sections 6-40 and 6-41 are repealed, effective December 1, 2000. (1949 Rev., S…

Sec. 6-42. Accident insurance coverage for deputy sheriffs. Section 6-42 is repealed. (1957, P.A. 405; 1959, P.A. 152, S. 99.)

Sec. 6-43. Special deputies. From July 1, 1997, to June 30, 1999, special deputy sheriffs shall be subject to the provisions of chapter 68, except that said special deputies shall not be allowed to petition the Connecticut State Board of Labor Relations to form a bargaining unit …

Secs. 6-44 to 6-46. Appointment of special deputies upon application. Appointment and removal of deputies. Sheriff may recover on bond of deputy; not to demand fee from deputy. Sections 6-44 to 6-46, inclusive, are repealed, effective December 1, 2000. (1949 Rev., S. 460–462; P.A…

Sec. 6-47. Removal of deputy sheriff by commissioners. Section 6-47 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 463; 1959, P.A. 152, S. 99.)

Sec. 6-48. Deputies to continue in office. Section 6-48 is repealed, effective December 1, 2000. (1949 Rev., S. 464; 1959, P.A. 152, S. 11; P.A. 00-99, S. 153, 154.)