Title 7, Title 7: Municipalities

Sec. 7-192a. New tax not authorized by general statutes prohibited. Provisions affecting elections and electors not to be adopted. No provision of this chapter shall be deemed to empower any municipality to levy or collect any tax not authorized by the general statutes or to adop…

Sec. 7-193. Required provisions. Organization of government. (a) Any charter adopted or amended under the provisions of this chapter shall conform to the following requirements: (1) The municipality shall have a legislative body, which may be: (A) A town meeting; (B) a representa…

Sec. 7-194. Powers. Subject to the provisions of section 7-192, all towns, cities or boroughs which have a charter or which adopt or amend a charter under the provisions of this chapter shall have the following specific powers in addition to all powers granted to towns, cities an…

Sec. 7-195. Consolidation of governments. (a) As used in this section and sections 7-196 to 7-201, inclusive, “unit of local government” means a town or political subdivision thereof and “political subdivision” means a city, borough or district within a town. (b) The consolidatio…

Sec. 7-196. Form of petition. The form of the petition for proposing a consolidation shall be as follows: WARNING: ALL SIGNATURES SHALL BE IN INK OR INDELIBLE PENCIL. We, the electors of the town, city or borough or unit of local government of (Here insert the name of the town, c…

Sec. 7-197. Consolidation commission. If, within thirty days of the adoption of the proposal to consolidate by the initiating legislative body, the legislative body of each other unit of local government included in the proposed consolidation has accepted the proposal, or if a su…

Sec. 7-198. Duties of commission. Such consolidation commission shall prepare a consolidation ordinance in which provision shall be made for the allocation of local governmental functions and services to existing offices, departments, boards, commissions or other agencies of the …

Sec. 7-199. Referendum. Not less than ninety days nor more than eighteen months after the appointment of such consolidation commission, such consolidation ordinance shall be submitted to the town clerk. Such ordinance shall be submitted to the electors of the town at the next gen…

Sec. 7-200. Consolidation of school districts. Charter revisions in consolidation process. Nothing in sections 7-195 to 7-201, inclusive, shall be construed to prevent the consolidation of school districts as heretofore provided by law. Nothing herein contained shall be construed…

Sec. 7-201. Receipt of funds. Appropriations. Any charter commission or consolidation commission appointed under the provisions of this chapter is authorized to receive for its own use and purposes any funds or money from any source, including gifts and contributions, made by any…

Sec. 7-202. Definitions. When used in this chapter, “parking facilities” means lots, garages, parking terminals or other structures and accommodations for the parking of motor vehicles off the street or highway and open to public use with or without charge; “parking authority” me…

Sec. 7-203. Creation of parking authorities. Any municipality may provide parking facilities and may, by ordinance, create a parking authority or designate a parking division for the purposes of creating and establishing off-street parking facilities. A parking authority created …

Sec. 7-204. Powers of parking authority. Such parking authority or parking division shall have the power, in the name of the municipality, to (1) create, establish, and expand wherever built by such municipality, off-street parking facilities; (2) acquire by purchase, gift, devis…

Sec. 7-204a. Enforcement of municipal parking regulations. Any municipality may, by ordinance adopted by its legislative body or, where the legislative body is a town meeting, by the board of selectmen, authorize the parking authority of such municipality to (1) enforce the parki…

Sec. 7-205. Financing. Such parking authority or parking division, subject to the specific authorization and approval of the legislative body, may finance the creation and establishment of parking facilities by any one, or any combination, of the following methods: (a) General ob…

Sec. 7-206. Revenue bonds. (a) The legislative body of any municipality is authorized to provide, by ordinance, for the issuance of revenue bonds of the municipality to finance parking facilities. The bonds of each issue shall be dated, shall bear interest at such rate or rates, …

Sec. 7-206a. Bonds and notes not subject to statutory debt limit. Conveyance of title by municipality to public agency lessee. Bonds and notes issued under the provisions of section 7-206 for the purposes of sections 7-204 and 7-205 shall not be subject to any statutory limitatio…

Sec. 7-207. Rates and charges. The legislative body shall, in the ordinance providing for the issuance of revenue bonds, fix the initial schedule of minimum rates, rentals, fees and other charges for the use of, and for the service and facilities furnished or to be furnished by, …

Sec. 7-207a. Use of parking meter revenues. Any municipality may, by ordinance, authorize its parking authority or parking division to collect and receive all revenue from parking meters located on public streets in the municipality or to establish metered on-street parking zones…

Sec. 7-208. Rights of bondholders. Any holder of revenue bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter or of any of the coupons appertaining thereto, except to the extent that the rights herein given may be restricted by the authorizing ordinance, may, either at law or in equ…

Sec. 7-209. Bonds to be tax-exempt. Revenue bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter, their transfer and the income therefrom, including any profit made on the sale thereof, shall at all times be free from taxation within the state. (1953, S. 287d.)

Sec. 7-210. Receipts to be trust funds. All moneys received under the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed to be trust funds, to be held and applied as provided in this chapter. The ordinance authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds shall provide that any officer to whom, …

Sec. 7-211. Provisions of special acts not affected. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to limit the powers enjoyed by any municipality under any special act. (1953, S. 289d.)

Sec. 7-212. Parking authorities; tax exemption; investment of funds. The property of any parking authority created under the authority of any general or special act shall be exempt from taxation, unless otherwise specifically provided in such general or special act or in the ordi…

Sec. 7-212a. Public parking garages. Any town, city or borough shall have the power to enter into agreements or contracts with any person or corporation for the erection and construction of public parking garages by such town, city or borough, or by such person or corporation or …

Sec. 7-213. Municipalities may establish plants. For purposes of this chapter, “municipality” means any town, city or borough. Any municipality may, under the limitations of this chapter, construct, purchase, lease or establish, and maintain one or more plants for the manufacture…

Sec. 7-214. Requirements for exercise of authority. No municipality shall exercise the authority conferred in section 7-213 until affirmative action for that purpose has been taken by its legislative body by a two-thirds vote of those present at a legal meeting, received the appr…

Sec. 7-215. Preliminary vote in towns or boroughs. Section 7-215 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 711; 1953, S. 309d; P.A. 76-177, S. 2.)

Sec. 7-216. Board of commissioners. Whenever any municipality obtains a plant as provided in section 7-213, a commission shall be appointed, as hereinafter provided, to be known as the board of gas commissioners, board of electrical commissioners or board of gas and electrical co…

Sec. 7-217. Issuance of debt. Any municipality establishing or purchasing a plant as provided by this chapter, reconstructing, extending or enlarging the same, as provided in section 7-218, or paying or liquidating obligations incurred pursuant to any power purchase contract ente…

Sec. 7-217a. Temporary notes. Method of issuance and payment. (a) In addition to its other powers described under this chapter, any municipality operating a plant pursuant to this chapter may issue temporary notes for purposes of financing any capital project related to such plan…

Sec. 7-218. Reconstruction or enlargement of plant. Any municipality owning a plant under the authority of this chapter may reconstruct or enlarge the same, but no reconstruction or enlargement, beyond the ordinary and necessary maintenance, repair or replacement thereof, except …

Sec. 7-219. Assessment for pipes and other appliances. Any municipality may provide by ordinances for the equitable assessment upon the owner or occupant of real estate of any part or the whole of the cost of furnishing, laying and maintaining upon the premises of such owner or o…

Sec. 7-220. Manufacture and distribution. Any municipality having obtained a plant for the purpose, under the authority of this chapter, may manufacture, generate and distribute gas or electricity for furnishing light for municipal purposes or for the use of the inhabitants, unde…

Sec. 7-221. Keeping of accounts. The books and accounts pertaining to the business authorized by this chapter shall be kept in a form to be prescribed by the board of commissioners, and the accounts shall be closed on the last day of July in each year, so that a balance sheet of …

Sec. 7-222. Price. (a) The price to be charged to persons or corporations for gas or electricity shall be fixed and shall not be changed more often than once in three months. Any change shall take effect on the first day of the month, and the new price adopted shall, before the c…

Sec. 7-222a. Rate for interconnection of generation facilities. Not later than October 1, 2004, each municipal electric utility, including any participating municipal electric utility, as defined in section 16-1, shall, in consultation with the municipal electric energy cooperati…

Sec. 7-223. Ordinances. If any municipality operates a plant under the provisions of this chapter, such municipality may adopt ordinances regulating the production, control and use of its plant, fixtures and appurtenances; the character and quality of, and the method and plan of …

Sec. 7-224. Purchase by municipality of plant owned by a corporation. When any municipality decides to establish a plant and any corporation incorporated by the General Assembly for the purpose of furnishing gas or electric light, heat or power is, at the time of the first vote r…

Sec. 7-225. When purchase to embrace entire plant. When a portion only of the gas or electric plant of any corporation would, under section 7-224, be included in a purchase by any municipality, such municipality shall, at the election of the owner or owners of such plant, similar…

Sec. 7-226. Determination of plant value. The price to be paid for such plant, whether gas, electric or both, shall be its fair market value for the purposes of its use, no portion of such plant to be estimated at less than its fair market value for any other purpose, including a…

Sec. 7-227. Valuation of capital paid in property. When any capital has been paid in, in property instead of cash, the valuation placed upon such property, in estimating it as paid-in capital, shall not be conclusive in estimating its value under the foregoing provisions, but may…

Sec. 7-228. Compulsory purchase by municipality. Any corporation desiring to enforce the obligation of any municipality, hereby imposed, to purchase any property shall file with the clerk of such municipality, within thirty days after the passage of the final vote whereby such mu…

Sec. 7-229. Remonstrance to acceptance of report. Any party aggrieved by the doings of the commission may, within fourteen days after its report has been filed with the clerk of said superior court, or such longer time as such court allows, file a remonstrance to such report. Sai…

Sec. 7-230. Appeal. An appeal may be taken from the decision of said court, accepting the report of the commission, to the Appellate Court in the same manner in which appeals are usually taken and with like effect. If the Appellate Court reverses the judgment of the Superior Cour…

Sec. 7-231. Private rights extinguished by municipal purchase. Whenever the existing gas or electric plant of any person or corporation has been acquired by any municipality pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, the powers and rights of such person or corporation in relatio…