Title 5 — Title 5: State Employees

Sec. 5-187b. Special deputy sheriffs appointed before July 1, 1999: Membership and credit. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, each special deputy sheriff, appointed pursuant to section 6-43 before July 1, 1999, shall become a member of the state employees retirement s…

Sec. 5-187c. Special deputy sheriffs appointed on or after July 1, 1999, and judicial marshals employed on or after December 1, 2000: Membership and credit. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, each special deputy sheriff, appointed pursuant to section 6-43 on or af…

Sec. 5-188. Retirement salary of detectives. (a) For the purposes of this section “detective” means any detective, chief inspector or inspector in the Division of Criminal Justice or chief detective. (b) (1) Each detective who is forty-seven years of age or over and who has compl…

Sec. 5-189. Credit to court employees for prior municipal service. Each employee of the Superior Court shall be credited for retirement purposes for his entire period of full-time service as an employee of a municipal, city, police, justice or traffic court, provided he shall pay…

Sec. 5-190. Court reporters to receive credit for service as municipal court stenographers. Any person taken into state service as a court reporter who previously served as court stenographer in any municipal court shall be credited with his entire period of full-time service as …

Sec. 5-190a. Retirement credit for employees of the Criminal Justice Division and public defenders. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, each employee of the Division of Criminal Justice and each public defender, assistant public defender and deputy assistant…

Sec. 5-190b. Participation in retirement systems by certain teachers at E. O. Smith School; certain service treated as continuous employment by board of education. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general statute, charter or special act to the contrary, affecting teacher ten…

Sec. 5-191. Credit for service to other states. A member of the state employees retirement system who has been in the active full-time employment of another state or states for some past period or periods for which he has received or will receive no retirement benefit or pension …

Sec. 5-191a. Reimbursement of certain retired employees for moneys deducted from retirement allowance. Section 5-191a is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (1967, P.A. 710; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)

Sec. 5-192. Credit for transferred McCook Hospital employees. (a) Each person who was transferred to state employment under the provisions of section 5-268d of the 1967 supplement to the general statutes shall be credited for retirement purposes for his entire period of full-time…

Sec. 5-192a. Credit for state college bookstore employees. Each employee under section 5-268d of the 1969 supplement to the general statutes shall be credited for retirement purposes under this chapter with his period of full-time service as an employee of any such bookstore upon…

Sec. 5-192b. Credit for previous membership in a municipal retirement system. (a) Any person who became a member of the state employees retirement system and who previously was a member of the Connecticut municipal employees' retirement system shall receive credit for the purpose…

Sec. 5-192c. Transfer from teachers' retirement system to state employees retirement system. No person who has creditable service as a member of the teachers' retirement system and who transfers, on or after July 1, 1978, to the state employees retirement system shall be entitled…

Sec. 5-192d. Administration of retirement funds for teachers at E. O. Smith School. The employer contribution for retirement benefits for teachers at the E. O. Smith School who are members of the state employees retirement system shall be included in amounts appropriated from the…

Sec. 5-192e. Application. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the provisions of sections 5-192e to 5-192x, inclusive, shall apply to all members who first join the state employees retirement system after July 1, 1984, and members of bargaining units which are party to…

Sec. 5-192f. Definitions. For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (a) “Year's breakpoint” means, with respect to the calendar year in which occurs a member's last severance from service date, ten thousand seven hundred dollars increased by six per cen…

Sec. 5-192g. Eligibility and membership. (a) Membership in the tier II plan shall be required for each state employee, whether or not exempt from the classified service, appointed after January 1, 1984, unless specifically excluded in this section or unless section 5-192e mandate…

Sec. 5-192h. Election by judges. (a) Any person who is appointed a judge of the Supreme Court or Superior Court and who has at the time of his appointment at least ten years of credited service under the tier II plan may, at any time within ten years after initial appointment as …

Sec. 5-192i. Vesting service. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, vesting service is all service with the state commencing on the employee's employment commencement date or reemployment commencement date and ending on his severance from service date. The employment …

Sec. 5-192j. Credited service. (a) All vesting service rendered on or after October 1, 1982, by a member of the tier II plan shall be credited service under the plan. Any period of absence recognized as service under subsection (b) or (e) of section 5-192i, shall, however, be exc…

Sec. 5-192k. Part-time employees; eligibility; computation of benefits. (a) For purposes of determining eligibility for benefits for part-time employees under sections 5-192l, 5-192m, 5-192o and 5-192p, a member's part-time service shall be treated as full-time service. (b) For p…

Sec. 5-192l. Normal retirement. (a) Each member of tier II who has attained age sixty-five and has completed ten or more years of vesting service may retire on his own application on the first day of any future month named in the application. Benefits shall be payable from that d…

Sec. 5-192m. Early retirement. (a) Each member of tier II who has attained age fifty-five and has completed ten or more years of vesting service, shall be retired on his own application on the first day of any future month named in the application. Benefits shall be payable from …

Sec. 5-192n. Hazardous duty retirement. (a) Each “hazardous duty member” who has completed twenty-five years of credited service while a hazardous duty member may be retired on his own application on the first day of any future month named in the application. For this purpose, le…

Sec. 5-192nn. Retirement provisions applicable to certain employees of state-aided institutions. Early retirement incentive program. (a) No person employed or reemployed by Newington Children's Hospital, the American School for the Deaf or the Connecticut Institute for the Blind …

Sec. 5-192o. Deferred vested retirement. (a) A member of tier II who terminates before he is eligible for retirement, but after completing ten years of vesting service, shall be eligible for a vested retirement income calculated as described in subsection (c) of section 5-192l co…

Sec. 5-192p. Disability retirement. (a) If a member of tier II, while in state service, becomes disabled as defined in subsection (b) of this section, prior to age sixty-five, he is eligible for disability retirement if the member has completed at least ten years of vested servic…

Sec. 5-192q. Optional forms of retirement income. (a) A member of tier II may elect one of the following optional forms for retirement income by filing with the Retirement Commission a written election on a form provided by the commission. A member who has been married at least o…

Sec. 5-192r. Spouse's allowance; preretirement death benefits. (a) If a member of tier II who is continuing to earn vesting service or who is on a leave authorized by the state or otherwise granted pursuant to the terms of the appropriate collective bargaining agreement, dies aft…

Sec. 5-192s. Tier II cost of living adjustment. Each member who has retired under the tier II plan and who is receiving benefits, each spouse or contingent annuitant receiving income under an option specified in section 5-192q, and each spouse or contingent annuitant receiving be…

Sec. 5-192t. Survivorship benefits. (a) No member of the tier II plan, other than any member of the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, shall be entitled to benefits under section 5-144 or sections 5-146 to 5-151, inclusive.…

Sec. 5-192u. Tier II member contributions not required. No contributions are required of members of the tier II plan for their retirement benefits. (P.A. 83-533, S. 37, 54.)

Sec. 5-192v. Retirement credit of reemployed retired members. (a) Any person who has retired from the service of the state under any provision of the tier II plan and who is reemployed on a permanent basis shall resume membership in the tier II plan and shall receive credit for s…

Sec. 5-192w. Assignment prohibited. Any assignment by a member or beneficiary of any amount payable to either under the terms of sections 5-192e to 5-192x, inclusive, shall be null and void. Each such payment shall be for the support of the member or beneficiary entitled thereto …

Sec. 5-192x. Minor and incompetent payees. If the payee for any payment under sections 5-192e to 5-192x, inclusive, is a minor or if the Retirement Commission finds that any payee is legally incapable of giving a valid receipt and discharge for any payment due him, the Comptrolle…

Secs. 5-192y to 5-192mm. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 5-193. Short title: State Personnel Act. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “State Personnel Act”. (1967, P.A. 657, S. 2.)

Sec. 5-194. Construction and administration. This chapter shall be so construed and administered as to provide a uniform and equitable system of personnel administration of employees in the state service. Recruitment, selection, appointment, development, promotion, transfer, layo…

Sec. 5-195. Merit principles to be observed. The system of personnel administration for employees in the state service shall be based on merit principles. All appointments and promotions, except as hereinafter specified, shall be made according to merit and fitness as ascertained…

Sec. 5-196. Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) “Agency” means a department, board, institution or commission established by statute, not a part of any other department, board, institution or commission. (2) “Allocation” means the offi…

Secs. 5-196a and 5-196b. “Commissioner” and “department” defined. “Personnel Commissioner” and “Personnel Department”, terminology change. Sections 5-196a and 5-196b are repealed. (P.A. 73-677, S. 1; P.A. 75-519, S. 1, 7, 12; P.A. 77-614, S. 66, 609, 610.)

Sec. 5-197. Offices in state service to be classified; exceptions. Any office or position in the state service, whether full-time or part-time, shall be a position in the classified service, except as hereinafter set forth in this chapter or otherwise specified by statute. (1967,…

Sec. 5-198. Positions exempt from classified service. The offices and positions filled by the following-described incumbents shall be exempt from the classified service: (1) All officers and employees of the Judicial Department; (2) All officers and employees of the Legislative D…

Sec. 5-199. Personnel Division of Department of Administrative Services. Deputy commissioner. Section 5-199 is repealed, effective July 1, 1996. (1967, P.A. 657, S. 8; 1972, P.A. 123, S. 2; P.A. 73-497, S. 1, 2; 73-677, S. 3; P.A. 75-519, S. 3, 12; P.A. 77-614, S. 107, 610; P.A. …

Secs. 5-199a and 5-199b. Bureaus established. Deputy commissioners; qualifications; appointment; powers. Exempt positions. Sections 5-199a and 5-199b are repealed. (P.A. 73-677, S. 4, 5; P.A. 75-519, S. 11, 12.)

Sec. 5-199c. Human resources strategic plan. The Commissioner of Administrative Services shall develop a human resources strategic plan for anticipating and meeting the personnel requirements of the state service. The plan shall clearly define the missions, functions and responsi…

Sec. 5-199d. Role of regional community-technical colleges in training for state employees. The Department of Administrative Services or any other state agency which seeks to contract for training for their employees shall, prior to entering into a contract, contact the chancello…

Sec. 5-200. State personnel and employment policies. Powers and duties of the Commissioner of Administrative Services. Regulations. Personnel administration services for municipalities or other political subdivisions of the state. (a) The Commissioner of Administrative Services o…

Sec. 5-200a. Job evaluations in classified and unclassified state service. Exclusion of certain unclassified positions. (a) The Commissioner of Administrative Services shall evaluate classifications in state service on a periodic basis of not less than five years to determine if …

Sec. 5-200b. Reclassification of state employees by Commissioner of Administrative Services. Any state employee who is being reclassified upward to a competitive or noncompetitive class in state service may be allocated to the higher classification without examination by the Comm…