Title 7 — Title 7: Municipalities

Sec. 7-101. Town seal. Each town shall provide itself with a seal with the name of the town and the state and the word “seal” inscribed thereon and may place thereon any such other suitable inscription or design as it determines. If any town changes any design or inscription upon…

Sec. 7-101a. Protection of municipal officers and municipal employees from damage suits. Reimbursement of defense expenses. Liability insurance. Time limit for filing notice and commencement of action. (a) Each municipality shall protect and save harmless any municipal officer, w…

Sec. 7-102. Signposts. One or more signposts may be erected and maintained in each town, at such place or places as the selectmen shall designate. (1949 Rev., S. 626; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 10; P.A. 82-327, S. 4.) History: P.A. 82-327 made signpost requirement permissive rather than m…

Sec. 7-103. Resignation of municipal officers. Unless otherwise provided by law, any elected or appointed town, city or borough officer, except the town, city or borough clerk, desiring to resign from his office shall submit his resignation in writing to the town, city or borough…

Sec. 7-104. Refusal of elected official to accept or perform duties. Section 7-104 is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (1949 Rev., S. 526; 1953, S. 257d; P.A. 02-89, S. 90.)

Sec. 7-105. Oath of assessors, board of assessment appeals and tax collectors. Each person appointed an assessor or elected or appointed a member of the board of assessment appeals or a collector of town taxes in any town shall be sworn before entering upon the duties of the offi…

Sec. 7-105a. Office of grand juror abolished. The office of grand juror is abolished. This section shall supersede any provision of any special act to the contrary. (1961, P.A. 15, S. 1; 517, S. 134.)

Sec. 7-106. Oath of grand jurors. Section 7-106 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 524; 1953, S. 254d; 1961, P.A. 15, S. 2.)

Sec. 7-107. Vacancy appointments by selectmen. Except as otherwise provided by law, if any vacancy occurs on any town board or commission, and such board or commission has power by law to fill such vacancy but fails to do so within thirty days after it occurs, the board of select…

Sec. 7-108. City or borough liable for damage done by mobs. Each city and borough shall be liable for all injuries to person or property, including injuries causing death, when such injuries are caused by an act of violence of any person or persons while a member of, or acting in…

Sec. 7-109. Destruction of documents. Any official, board or commissioner of a municipality may, with the approval of the chief administrative officer of such municipality and of the Public Records Administrator, destroy any document in his or its custody relating to any matter w…

Sec. 7-110. Official publications of towns, cities and boroughs to be filed in State Library. Intangible publications. (a) Official publications of the towns, cities and boroughs of the state shall be kept in the State Library for reference. The clerk of each such town, city or b…

Sec. 7-111. Proof of claims against municipality. Section 7-111 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 697; P.A. 82-327, S. 12.)

Sec. 7-112. Rate of wages and citizens' preference in work on public buildings. The provisions of sections 31-52, 31-53 and 31-54 shall apply to the construction, remodeling or repair of any public building by any political subdivision of this state or any of its agents. (1955, S…

Sec. 7-113. Marking of bounds of towns, cities and boroughs. Each town, city and borough shall procure its bounds to be set out by plain and durable marks and monuments, which shall be either an iron pipe or rod, projecting at least six inches above the surface of local permanent…

Sec. 7-114. Renewal of boundary lines. Section 7-114 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 628; 1955, S. 259d; 1961, P.A. 517, S. 3; P.A. 79-218.)

Sec. 7-115. Establishment of disputed boundaries. When the selectmen of adjoining towns, or of a town and the warden and burgesses of a borough or the mayor and clerk of a city therein or adjoining, do not agree as to the place of the division line between their respective commun…

Secs. 7-116 to 7-118. Street and curb lines. Sidewalks. Construction, maintenance and use of sidewalks. Sections 7-116 to 7-118, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 630–632; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 11; 1959, P.A. 67; P.A. 82-327, S. 12.)

Sec. 7-118a. Curbs and sidewalks to be designed with cuts at pedestrian crosswalks. (a) All curbs and sidewalks constructed or replaced on or after January 1, 1980, shall be designed with cuts at all pedestrian crosswalks to provide adequate and reasonable access for the safe and…

Secs. 7-119 and 7-120. Hearing; appeal. Assignment of street numbers. Sections 7-119 and 7-120 are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 633; 1953, S. 279d; P.A. 76-436, S. 255, 681; P.A. 78-280, S. 1, 127; P.A. 82-327, S. 12.)

Sec. 7-121. Making of specific appropriations. Each city, by its common council when so authorized by its charter or by its electors in legal meeting assembled, and each town, borough or school district, by legal meeting of its voters, shall make appropriations of specific sums o…

Sec. 7-121a. Municipal loans to nonpublic schools for construction or renovation. (a) Any municipality may, by vote of its legislative body, borrow funds on the faith and credit of such municipality for the purpose of lending such funds to any financially responsible nonpublic sc…

Sec. 7-121b. Contracts with regional water authorities. Any municipality served by a regional water authority may enter into long-term contracts with such authority whereby such municipality agrees that it will appropriate and pay to the authority such funds as may be necessary f…

Sec. 7-121c. Municipal guarantee of notes and bonds issued by water authority re water distribution system. (a) Whenever any water authority incurs an indebtedness whether by the issuance of bonds, notes or otherwise by reason of the installation, enlargement or maintenance of a …

Sec. 7-121d. Municipality may request state review of contract with engineering consultant re wastewater. Upon the request of a municipality or municipal agency, the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall review any contract between such municipality or municip…

Sec. 7-121e. Sewage treatment facility improvement trust fund. Any town, city or borough, and any district in which a sewage treatment facility is or may be located, may, by action of its legislative body, create a sewage treatment facility improvement trust fund. Such fund may c…

Sec. 7-121f. Municipal Electric Consumer Advocate. (a) There is established a Municipal Electric Consumer Advocate to act as an independent advocate for consumer interests in all matters which may affect municipal electric energy cooperative consumers, including, but not limited …

Secs. 7-121g to 7-121l. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 7-121m. Notice of actions concerning real property in other municipalities. Whenever any municipality, pursuant to the general statutes or any special act, takes any action on or makes any assessment against any real property in any other municipality, the acting municipalit…

Sec. 7-121n. Sustainable energy program. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Energy improvements” means any renovation or retrofitting of qualifying real property to reduce energy consumption or installation of a renewable energy system to service qualifying real property, provided…

Sec. 7-122. Sites for armories. Appropriations. Any city may, acting by its legislative body, purchase or acquire land for the purpose of conveying the same to the state as the site for a state armory, whenever the General Assembly has voted to erect an armory in such city, and m…

Sec. 7-122a. Municipal fallout shelters and civil preparedness facilities. Any town or city, acting by its legislative body, may provide for the acquisition, construction and installation of fallout shelters and other civil preparedness facilities and may appropriate sufficient f…

Sec. 7-122b. Allocation of funds for art work in construction or remodeling of municipal buildings. (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: “Municipal building” means any building or facility owned or leased by a municipal government in …

Secs. 7-123 to 7-125. Appropriations for: Military organizations, hospitals, health care facilities and public health nursing organizations; insect and plant disease control; Memorial Day and Old Home Week. Sections 7-123 to 7-125, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 639, 650…

Sec. 7-125a. Appropriations to improvement associations for road maintenance. Any town which has appropriated funds to any body politic incorporated by special act as an improvement association within such town, which funds were used for the repair or maintenance of roads within …

Secs. 7-125b to 7-125d. Appropriations for assistance to nonprofit museums. Cultural commissions. Appropriations for drug abuse and dependency programs. Sections 7-125b to 7-125d, inclusive, are repealed. (1967, P.A. 105; 1971, P.A. 202, S. 1; 329; P.A. 82-327, S. 12.)

Sec. 7-126. Transportation of children with physical disabilities and children with visual impairments. Each city, town, borough or school district is authorized to transport children with physical disabilities and children having such visual impairments as to require transportat…

Secs. 7-127 and 7-127a. Municipal advisory welfare boards. Committees on needs of the aging. Sections 7-127 and 7-127a are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 641; 1963, P.A. 540; P.A. 82-327, S. 12.)

Sec. 7-127b. Municipal agents for elderly persons. Duties. Responsibilities of Department of Aging and Disability Services. (a) The chief elected official or the chief executive officer if by ordinance of each municipality shall appoint a municipal agent for elderly persons. Such…

Sec. 7-127c. Municipal agents for children. (a) The chief elected official or the chief executive officer of each municipality may appoint a municipal agent for children. Such agent shall be an elected official of the state or the municipality, a member of an agency that serves c…

Sec. 7-127d. Neighborhood youth center grant program. (a) There is established a neighborhood youth center grant program which shall be administered by the Department of Education. (b) Grants may be made to city and nonprofit agencies serving the cities of Bridgeport, New Haven, …

Sec. 7-127e. Application. Matching funds for neighborhood youth centers program and Leadership, Education, Athletics in Partnership program. Advisory committee for grant application review. (a) The Department of Education shall solicit competitive proposals under this program for…

Sec. 7-127f. Annual reports. Audit. Grantees shall submit to the Department of Education on an annual basis program and financial reports on such forms as the department may require. In accordance with the provisions of sections 4-230 to 4-236, inclusive, and regulations adopted …

Sec. 7-127g. Annual reports to the General Assembly. Each municipality which receives a grant pursuant to sections 7-127d to 7-127f, inclusive, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1995, shall submit a report to the General Assembly, in accordance with the provisions of section 11…

Sec. 7-127h. Multipurpose senior centers. Establishment by municipalities. Services, programs provided. (a) Any one or more municipalities, or any one or more private organizations that serve older persons and are designated to act as agents of one or more municipalities, may est…

Sec. 7-127i. Assistance, resources for senior centers. Duties of Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity and Opportunity. Within available appropriations, the Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity and Opportunity shall provide assistance to senior centers, which m…

Secs. 7-128 and 7-129. Public squares and parks. Gifts for parks. Sections 7-128 and 7-129 are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 644, 645; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 14; P.A. 82-327, S. 12.)

Sec. 7-129a. Park and recreation capital and nonrecurring expense fund. (a) As used in this section, “municipality” means any city, town, borough, district or association with municipal powers which has within its jurisdiction and subject to its authority, holds or acquires any l…

Sec. 7-130. Playgrounds and recreation centers. Section 7-130 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 646; P.A. 82-327, S. 12.)

Sec. 7-130a. Public recreational facilities authorities. Definitions. As used in sections 7-130a to 7-130w, inclusive, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings unless the context indicates another meaning or intent: (a) “Authority” means an authority create…