Title 7 — Title 7: Municipalities

Sec. 7-34b. Accounting of fees required. Salary in lieu of fees. (a) The clerk of each municipality shall, at the end of each fiscal year of such municipality, give an accounting of all fees and compensation provided by the general statutes to be paid to the clerk to the legislat…

Sec. 7-35. Preservation by town clerks of statutes, special acts and Register and Manual. The latest revision of the general statutes, the latest cumulative supplements thereto, the latest edition of the special acts and the latest edition of the Register and Manual shall be kept…

Sec. 7-35a. Off-site storage of original documents. Requirements. A municipality may store any original document off-site, provided the information contained in the document is available on demand on-site by electronic means and the town clerk can provide and certify a copy of th…

Sec. 7-35aa. Short title: Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act. Sections 7-35aa to 7-35gg, inclusive, may be cited as the “Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act”. (P.A. 08-56, S. 1.) History: P.A. 08-56 effective October 1, 2009.

Secs. 7-35b to 7-35z. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 7-35bb. Definitions. As used in sections 7-35aa to 7-35gg, inclusive: (1) “Document” means information that is: (A) Inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form; and (B) eligible to be recorded in th…

Sec. 7-35cc. Validity of electronic documents. (a) If a law requires, as a condition for recording, that a document be an original, be on paper or another tangible medium, or be in writing, the requirement is satisfied by an electronic document satisfying sections 7-35aa to 7-35g…

Sec. 7-35dd. Recording of documents. (a) As used in this section, “paper document” means a document that is received by the town clerk in a form that is not electronic. (b) A town clerk: (1) Who implements any of the functions listed in this section shall do so in compliance with…

Sec. 7-35ee. Administration and standards. Regulations. Duties of State Librarian. Real Property Electronic Recording Advisory Committee. (a) The State Librarian, in consultation with the Public Records Administrator and the Real Property Electronic Recording Advisory Committee e…

Sec. 7-35ff. Uniformity of application and construction. In applying and construing the uniform provisions of sections 7-35aa to 7-35gg, inclusive, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact …

Sec. 7-35gg. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act. Sections 7-35aa to 7-35gg, inclusive, modify, limit and supersede the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, 15 USC 7001 et seq., but do not modify, limit or supersede …

Sec. 7-36. Definitions. As used in this chapter and sections 19a-40 to 19a-45, inclusive, 19a-320, 19a-322 and 19a-323, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) “Registrar of vital statistics” or “registrar” means the registrar of births, marriages, deaths and fetal deaths or a…

Sec. 7-37. Town clerk, ex-officio registrar. Notice to Secretary of the State and Commissioner of Public Health of appointment of registrar, vacancy in appointed office of registrar. (a) The town clerks of the several towns shall be, ex officio, the registrars of vital statistics…

Sec. 7-38. Assistant registrars. Notice to Secretary of the State and Commissioner of Public Health of appointment to or vacancy in office of assistant registrar. (a) The town clerk of any town who is, ex officio, registrar of vital statistics in such town, and the registrar of v…

Sec. 7-39. Oath of registrars. The moderator of any town election at which a registrar of vital statistics elected under special law has been elected may administer to such registrar the oath required by law. (1949 Rev., S. 518; 1953, S. 252d.) See Sec. 9-1 for applicable definit…

Sec. 7-39a. (Formerly Sec. 45-23). Record of name of registrar of vital statistics. Section 7-39a is repealed. (1967, P.A. 59, S. 2; P.A. 82-327, S. 12.)

Sec. 7-40. Seal. The registrar of vital statistics in each town shall have an official seal that shall be provided by the town and shall be used to authenticate certificates and copies of record. No person, other than the registrar of vital statistics or the registrar's authorize…

Sec. 7-41. Regulations re record keeping. Submission of certified copies to department. Each registrar of vital statistics shall keep records in accordance with regulations adopted by the commissioner in accordance with chapter 54. Any certified copy of a vital record submitted t…

Sec. 7-41a. Vital statistics records available for genealogical research. Section 7-41a is repealed, effective October 1, 2001. (1971, P.A. 228, S. 1; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 96-258, S. 1, 5; P.A. 01-163, S. 36.)

Sec. 7-42. Duties. Each registrar of vital statistics shall ascertain as accurately as the registrar can all marriages, deaths and fetal deaths, and all births, upon the affidavit of the father or mother, occurring in the registrar's town, and record the same in such form and wit…

Sec. 7-43. Municipal ordinances. Section 7-43 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 597; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 5; P.A. 82-327, S. 12.)

Sec. 7-44. When authenticated copies of certificates to be transmitted to other towns. Use of electronic vital records system. (a) When it appears from the certificate of a birth, marriage, death or fetal death filed with any registrar of vital statistics that the residence of th…

Sec. 7-45. Preparation of certificates. Each person making any certificate of birth, marriage, civil union, death or fetal death, or any copy of such certificate for the commissioner, or any sexton's report required by law, shall cause the same to be typewritten or printed in a l…

Sec. 7-46. Completion of records. The registrars shall complete the records of their respective towns by adding thereto a record of all the births, marriages, deaths and fetal deaths that have occurred in such towns since the date of incorporation of such towns, of which no certi…

Sec. 7-47. Indexes. Each registrar of vital statistics shall keep alphabetically arranged separate indexes for each group of vital events and shall enter therein the name of each person whose birth, marriage, death or fetal death is recorded by the registrar. (1949 Rev., S. 569; …

Sec. 7-47a. Definitions. Section 7-47a is repealed, effective October 1, 2001. (P.A. 79-434, S. 1; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 01-163, S. 36.)

Sec. 7-47b. Record keeping of personal data by institutions. Release or disposal of dead body or dead fetus. (a) Any person in charge of an institution shall keep a record of personal data concerning each person admitted or confined to such institution. This record shall include …

Sec. 7-48. Birth certificates: Filing requirements. (a) Not later than ten days after each live birth which occurs in this state, a birth certificate shall be filed with the registrar of vital statistics in the town in which the birth occurred and the certificate shall be registe…

Sec. 7-48a. Filing of original certificate of birth. Surrogacy agreement: Replacement certificate of birth. (a) Each original certificate of birth shall be filed with the name of the birth parent recorded. (b) If the birth is subject to a surrogacy agreement, the Department of Pu…

Sec. 7-49. Failure to file birth certificate. The secretary of any examining board of the healing arts mentioned under section 20-1 or the Department of Public Health, as the case may be, on ascertaining the fact that a person licensed to practice any of the healing arts or midwi…

Sec. 7-50. Restrictions on content of birth certificates. Exceptions. Filing of acknowledgments or adjudications of parentage. Removal or changing of parentage information. Access to copies restricted. (a) No certificate of birth shall contain any specific statement that the chil…

Sec. 7-51. Access to and examination and issuance of certified copies of birth and fetal death records or certificates restricted. Access to and disclosure of confidential information restricted. Fee waiver for certified copies of birth certificates for homeless young adults and …

Sec. 7-51a. Copies of vital records. Access to vital records by members of genealogical societies. Marriage and civil union licenses. Death certificates. Issuance of certified copies of electronically filed certificates. (a) Any person eighteen years of age or older may purchase …

Sec. 7-52. Certification of birth registration. (a) The registrar of vital statistics of the town in which the birth occurred, the registrar of vital statistics of the town in which the mother resided at the time of the birth or the department shall issue, upon the request of the…

Sec. 7-53. Birth certificates of adopted persons born in this state. (a) Upon receipt of the record of adoption referred to in subsection (e) of section 45a-745 or of other evidence satisfactory to the department that a person born in this state has been adopted, the department s…

Sec. 7-53a. Reports re issuance of original birth certificates to adopted persons and certain other persons and filing of contact preference and health history forms. Section 7-53a is repealed, effective July 1, 2021. (P.A. 14-133, S. 4; P.A. 21-21, S. 4.)

Sec. 7-54. Certification of birth registration or certificate of foreign birth for person born outside of the country and adopted by a state resident. Application and decree re change of biological age and date of birth. (a) The department shall prepare a certification of birth r…

Sec. 7-55. Certification of birth to have force and effect of original. Any certification of birth, when properly certified by the registrar of the town in which the birth occurred or of the town in which the mother resided at the time of the birth or the Department of Public Hea…

Sec. 7-56. Issuance of certified copies of birth certificates. Section 7-56 is repealed, effective October 1, 2001. (1949 Rev., S. 576; 1972, P.A. 127, S. 7; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 90-67, S. 5; P.A. 91-24, S. 2, 8; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 0…

Sec. 7-57. Delayed registration of births. (a) Any adult or the parent or legal guardian of any minor who is one year of age or older, for whose birth no certificate is on file, may request a delayed registration of birth by submitting to the department his or her affidavit and t…

Sec. 7-58. Record of birth of child born outside United States. Any American citizen who becomes the parent of a child or children born outside the United States, and who was a resident of this state at the time of leaving the United States, may file, with the town clerk of the t…

Sec. 7-59. Report of foundling. (a) The executive authority of any agency or institution, upon accepting the temporary custody of any foundling, shall, not later than ten days after the date of such acceptance, report to the registrar of vital statistics of the town or city where…

Sec. 7-60. Fetal death certificates. (a) As used in this section, “fetal death” means the death of a fetus prior to the complete expulsion or extraction from the uterus, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy, in which there is no evidence of life after such expulsion or extra…

Sec. 7-61. Birth and fetal death certificates to state whether blood test has been made. In reporting each birth and fetal death, physicians and others permitted to attend pregnancy cases and required to report births and fetal deaths shall state on the birth certificate or fetal…

Sec. 7-62. Death certificates. Section 7-62 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 583–585; 1949, S. 234d; 1957, P.A. 163, S. 10; 1963, P.A. 107; 1967, P.A. 54; 1969, P.A. 442, S. 1; 699, S. 20; P.A. 73-178; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 79-47, S. 2; 79-434, S. 20.)

Sec. 7-62a. Illegal issuance of certificates. No person other than a registrar of vital statistics or the commissioner shall issue or cause to be issued any certificate or document which is, or purports to be, an original or certified copy of a certificate of birth, death, fetal …

Sec. 7-62b. Death certificates; filing and registration; responsibilities of funeral directors and licensed embalmers; medical certification; burial of person who died from communicable disease; “presumptive” death certificates; regulations. (a) A death certificate for each death…

Sec. 7-62c. Filing and registration of death certificate when death not recorded in accordance with Sec. 7-62b; “delayed” death certificates. (a) When a death occurring in this state has not been recorded in accordance with section 7-62b, a death certificate may be filed in accor…

Sec. 7-63. Notice of deaths at the Connecticut Juvenile Training School. Section 7-63 is repealed, effective July 1, 2018. (1949 Rev., S. 586; P.A. 99-26, S. 15, 39; P.A. 04-152, S. 2; P.A. 18-31, S. 43.)

Sec. 7-64. Disposal of bodies. The body of each person who dies in this state shall be buried, removed or cremated within a reasonable time after death. The person to whom the custody and control of the remains of any deceased person are granted by law shall see that the certific…