Title 7 — Title 7: Municipalities

Sec. 7-465. Assumption of liability for damage caused by employee of municipality or member of local emergency planning district. Joint liability of municipalities in district department of health or regional council of governments. (a) Any town, city or borough, notwithstanding …

Sec. 7-466. Collective bargaining authorized. Section 7-466 is repealed. (1963, P.A. 495, S. 1; February, 1965, P.A. 159, S. 12.)

Sec. 7-467. Collective bargaining. Definitions. When used in sections 7-467 to 7-477, inclusive: (1) “Municipal employer” means any political subdivision of the state, including any town, city, borough, district, district department of health, school board, housing authority or o…

Sec. 7-467a. Qualification of employee organization. No employee organization, as defined in section 7-467, shall be eligible to petition for exclusive recognition or to participate in a recognition election under section 7-471 unless it has been in existence for not fewer than s…

Sec. 7-468. Rights of employees and representatives. Duty of fair representation. (a) Employees shall have, and shall be protected in the exercise of, the right of self-organization, to form, join or assist any employee organization, to bargain collectively through representative…

Sec. 7-469. Duty to bargain collectively. The municipal employer and such employee organization as has been designated as exclusive representative of employees in an appropriate unit, through appropriate officials or their representatives, shall have the duty to bargain collectiv…

Sec. 7-470. Prohibited acts of employers and employee organizations. (a) Municipal employers or their representatives or agents are prohibited from: (1) Interfering, restraining or coercing employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed in section 7-468; (2) dominating or int…

Sec. 7-471. Powers of State Board of Labor Relations. The State Board of Labor Relations shall have the following power and authority in relation to collective bargaining in municipal employment: (1) Whenever, in accordance with such regulations as may be prescribed by the board,…

Sec. 7-471a. Supervisory employees not required to form employees association. Nothing in sections 7-467 and 7-471 shall require any employees in a supervisory position to form an employees association. (P.A. 78-375, S. 3.) Standing to test constitutionality of binding arbitratio…

Sec. 7-472. Mediation by State Board of Mediation and Arbitration. (a) The services of the State Board of Mediation and Arbitration shall be available to municipal employers and employee organizations for purposes of mediation of grievances or impasses in contract or contract reo…

Sec. 7-473. Petition to State Board of Mediation and Arbitration for fact finding. Fact finder's report and appearance before parties. Procedure for acceptance or rejection of report. Section 7-473 is repealed. (February, 1965, P.A. 159, S. 7; P.A. 75-173, S. 1; 75-570, S. 3; P.A…

Sec. 7-473a. Notice of expiration date of collective bargaining agreement. Notice of newly certified or recognized municipal employee organization. Filing; form. A notice of the expiration date of any collective bargaining agreement between a municipal employer and a municipal em…

Sec. 7-473b. Mandatory timetable for negotiations. Appointment of mediator. (a) The negotiations between a municipal employer and a municipal employee organization shall commence at least one hundred twenty days prior to the expiration date of any current collective bargaining ag…

Sec. 7-473c. Neutral Arbitrator Selection Committee. Panel of neutral arbitrators. Mandatory binding arbitration; procedure; apportionment of costs. Rejection of award by legislative body of the municipal employer. Second arbitration format. (a) The Labor Commissioner shall appoi…

Sec. 7-474. Negotiations and agreements between municipality and employee representatives. Federal approval. Elective binding arbitration; procedure; apportionment of costs. (a) Except as hereinafter provided, when an employee organization has been designated, in accordance with …

Sec. 7-474a. Provision limiting volunteer services for maintenance of buildings and grounds prohibited in collective bargaining agreements. Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, no collective bargaining agreement entered into on or after July 1, 2018, between a m…

Sec. 7-475. Strikes prohibited. Nothing in sections 7-467 to 7-477, inclusive, shall constitute a grant of the right to strike to employees of any municipal employer and such strikes are prohibited. In the event an agreement expires before a new agreement has been approved by the…

Sec. 7-476. Existing bargaining unit not altered during term of agreement. Nothing in sections 7-467 to 7-477, inclusive, is intended to require that the composition of an existing bargaining unit be altered during the term of an existing agreement. (February, 1965, P.A. 159, S. …

Sec. 7-477. Payroll deductions of union dues authorized. Municipal employers and employee organizations are authorized to negotiate provisions in a collective bargaining agreement calling for the payroll deduction of employee organization dues and initiation fees. (February, 1965…

Sec. 7-478. Municipal employee member of civil service board or commission not to participate in certain matters. Any provision of any special act, home rule ordinance or charter to the contrary notwithstanding, no member of a municipal civil service board or commission who is an…

Sec. 7-478a. Municipalities participating in interlocal agreements deemed a municipal employer subject to collective bargaining. (a) Two or more municipal employers participating in an interlocal agreement pursuant to sections 7-339a to 7-339l, inclusive, shall constitute a munic…

Sec. 7-478b. Collective bargaining agreement provision re closing of nonmunicipal offices on Martin Luther King Day. (a) Each municipality shall include a requirement in any collective bargaining agreement executed on or after April 26, 2000, that all nonessential municipal offic…

Sec. 7-478c. Reopening of certain collective bargaining agreements for compensation or exchange of benefits for observance of Martin Luther King Day. Notwithstanding the provisions of the general statutes, each municipal employer and each employee organization in a municipality t…

Sec. 7-478d. Duties of State Board of Mediation and Arbitration if no resolution. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 7-473c, if any such municipal employer and any such employee organization are unable to resolve the compensation or exchange of benefits issue after reopeni…

Sec. 7-478e. Mandatory binding arbitration for issues re observance of Martin Luther King Day. Panel of neutral arbitrators. Procedure. Criteria for decision. Apportionment of costs. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 7-473c: (1) If the parties are unable to resolve the co…

Sec. 7-478f. Rejection of award by legislative body. Second arbitration format. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 7-473c: (1) Not later than October 30, 2000, the legislative body of the municipal employer may reject the award of the arbitrators or single arbitrator issue…

Sec. 7-479. Conflicts of interest. For the purposes of this section, “municipality” means any town, city, borough, school district, taxing district, fire district, district department of health, probate district, housing authority, flood commission or authority established by spe…

Sec. 7-479a. Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter: (a) “Local public agency” means any political subdivision of the state, including any city, town or borough or any district as defined in section 7-324 or any metropolitan district or any municipal district created under…

Sec. 7-479b. Membership in interlocal risk management agency; bylaws; administration of different risk management pools. (a) Any two or more municipalities may form and become members of an interlocal risk management agency. A municipality may take such action by resolution of it…

Sec. 7-479c. Board of directors. Any other provision of the general statutes to the contrary notwithstanding, an interlocal risk management agency shall be governed by a board of directors periodically elected by its members by weighted vote or otherwise as provided by its bylaws…

Sec. 7-479d. Appointment of agent for service of process. An interlocal risk management agency may sue or be sued and shall appoint a natural person residing in this state or a corporation authorized to do business in this state as its agent for service of process and notify the …

Sec. 7-479e. Agency not an insurer. Reserve for contingencies. Applicable insurance laws. (a) An interlocal risk management agency is not an insurance company or insurer under the laws of this state and the development and administration by such agency of an interlocal risk manag…

Sec. 7-479f. Pool not to function until contributions received by agency. An interlocal risk management pool shall not function as a means of sharing among members of an interlocal risk management agency risks of loss for or from public liability, workers' compensation, automobil…

Sec. 7-479g. Local public agency's liability to risk management agency. Determining of contributions. Pool not to function prior to bylaw approval. (a) A local public agency shall not by reason of being a member of an interlocal risk management agency and contributing to an inter…

Sec. 7-479h. Management, meetings, minutes and records pertaining to claims not subject to freedom of information laws. The meetings, minutes and records of an interlocal risk management agency pertaining to claims shall not be subject to sections 1-201, 1-202, 1-205, 1-206, 1-21…

Sec. 7-479i. Issuance of bonded indebtedness. An interlocal risk management agency shall have the power to issue bonds, notes or other obligations from time to time, in its discretion, for any of its purposes. Such bonds, notes or other obligations shall be payable solely from an…

Secs. 7-479j to 7-479r. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 7-479s. Municipal Liability Trust Fund. Purposes. Moneys in fund. (a) There is established a fund to be known as the “Municipal Liability Trust Fund”. The purpose of the Municipal Liability Trust Fund shall be to: (1) Help assure the availability of liability coverage for mu…

Secs. 7-479t to 7-479w. Municipal Liability Trust Fund Committee; membership; duties. Grants from Municipal Liability Trust Fund; application requirements. Contingency reserve loans from Municipal Liability Trust Fund; application requirements; repayment. Limits on grants and con…

Sec. 7-479x. Moneys in Municipal Liability Trust Fund transferred to Municipal Abandoned Vehicle Trust Fund. Secretary of Office of Policy and Management to assume powers and duties of Municipal Liability Trust Fund Committee. Section 7-479x is repealed, effective October 1, 2002…

Sec. 7-480. Short title. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Connecticut City and Town Development Act”. (July Sp. Sess. P.A. 75-2, S. 1, 25.)

Sec. 7-481. Declaration of legislative policy. (a) It is hereby found and declared that there continues to exist in the state in many of its municipalities conditions of substantial and persistent unemployment; that many existing residential, industrial, commercial and manufactur…

Sec. 7-482. Definitions. As used in this chapter: (a) “Annual sinking fund payment” means the amount of money specified in the resolution authorizing term bonds secured by a capital reserve fund as payable into a sinking fund during a particular fiscal year for the retirement of …

Sec. 7-483. Powers granted to municipalities. In furtherance of the purposes of this chapter, which are hereby deemed to be municipal purposes, for which municipal funds may be expended, each municipality shall, in addition to those powers otherwise conferred by any general statu…

Sec. 7-484. Actions to be undertaken by means of separate resolutions. No action in the exercise of any powers granted under the provisions of this chapter shall be undertaken by a municipality or by any governmental unit or nonprofit corporation to which a municipality has deleg…

Sec. 7-485. Required municipal findings and determinations. Discretionary referendum. (a) No power granted to a municipality under this chapter may be exercised unless and until the municipality shall have found and determined by resolution that conditions substantially as descri…

Sec. 7-486. Delegation of powers. (a) A municipality shall have the power to delegate any power reserved to the municipality under the provisions of this chapter, except the powers provided for in sections 7-485, 7-491, 7-492 and 7-498, to any governmental unit created by or unde…

Sec. 7-487. Laws governing city and town development. (a) This chapter shall not supersede any other general statute, special act, municipal charter or ordinance, with regard to zoning regulations of the municipality adopted pursuant to section 8-2, or any special act, inland wet…

Sec. 7-488. Power of municipality to make loans. (a) A municipality shall have the power to make loans, which for the purposes of this section shall also include commitments to make loans, temporary loans and advances in anticipation of permanent loans, to any sponsor to provide …

Sec. 7-489. Sale, lease, disposition and use of development property. (a) A municipality shall have power to sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or part of any development property to any governmental unit or sponsor and to make agreements of any kind with any governmental un…