Title 4, Title 4: Management of State Agencies

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 Section 4-173a is repealed, effective June 19, 2013.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 …

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…

Sec. 4-189h. Definitions. As used in this section and section 4-189i: (1) “Agency” has the same meaning as provided in section 4-166; (2) “Regulation” has the same meaning as provided in section 4-166; (3) “Existing regulation” means a regulation that was adopted by an agency no …

Sec. 4-189i. Review of existing agency regulations. Public hearing. Amendment or repeal of regulations. (a) Not later than July 1, 2017, and not later than every seven years thereafter, each committee of cognizance, in consultation with each agency that is within the cognizance o…

Sec. 4-189j. Increases in fees set in regulations. Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes or any regulation of Connecticut state agencies to the contrary, on and after October 1, 2009, each fee in effect pursuant to regulations adopted pursuant to any section of th…

Sec. 4-190. Definitions. As used in this chapter: (1) “Agency” means each state or municipal board, commission, department or officer, other than the legislature, courts, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General or town or regional boards of education, which maintains a pe…

Secs. 4-191 and 4-192. Disclosure of personal data prohibited. When personal data may be disclosed without permission. Sections 4-191 and 4-192 are repealed. (P.A. 76-421, S. 2, 3, 9; P.A. 77-431, S. 5, 6; P.A. 78-362, S. 2, 3; P.A. 79-538, S. 2.)

Sec. 4-193. Agency's duties re personal data. Each agency shall: (a) Inform each of its employees who operates or maintains a personal data system or who has access to personal data, of the provisions of (1) this chapter, (2) the agency's regulations adopted pursuant to section 4…

Sec. 4-194. Refusal to disclose. Medical doctor to review data. Judicial relief. (a) If an agency determines that disclosure to a person of medical, psychiatric or psychological data concerning him would be detrimental to that person, or that nondisclosure to a person of personal…

Sec. 4-195. Petition to court for failure to disclose. If disclosure of personal data is refused by an agency under section 4-194, any person aggrieved thereby may, within thirty days of such refusal, petition the superior court for the judicial district in which he resides for a…

Sec. 4-196. Agencies to adopt regulations conforming to Attorney General's standards. (a) Each state agency shall, within six months of July 1, 1977, adopt regulations pursuant to chapter 54 which describe: (1) The general nature and purpose of the agency's personal data systems;…

Sec. 4-197. Action against agency for violation of chapter. Any agency which violates any provision of this chapter shall be subject to an action by any aggrieved person for injunction, declaratory judgment, mandamus or a civil action for damages. Such action may be brought in th…

Sec. 4-205. Definitions. Section 4-205 is repealed, effective October 1, 2000. (P.A. 89-122, S. 1, 8; P.A. 96-235, S. 6, 19; P.A. 00-66, S. 32.)

Secs. 4-206 to 4-209. Secretary of Office of Policy and Management to establish standards. Written procedures by state agencies for implementing standards. Requests for proposals; screening committee; selection of consultant; waiver required for noncompetitive procurement. Sectio…

Secs. 4-210 and 4-211. State agency reports on awarded contracts and needs for consultant services; coordination by secretary. State agency reports on completed contracts; compilation; performance evaluations. Sections 4-210 and 4-211 are repealed, effective October 1, 2000. (P.A…

Sec. 4-212. Definitions. As used in sections 4-212 to 4-219, inclusive: (1) “Competitive negotiation” means a procedure for contracting for services in which (A) proposals are solicited from qualified persons, firms or corporations by a request for proposals, and (B) changes may …

Sec. 4-213. Personal service agreement required when hiring personal service contractor. On and after July 1, 1994, no state agency may hire a personal service contractor without executing a personal service agreement with such contractor. (P.A. 93-336, S. 2, 13.) History: P.A. 9…