Title 7, Title 7: Municipalities

Sec. 7-323i. Administration of fund. The administration of said fund, except as the same relates to the custody and investment of the fund, shall be entrusted to the Retirement Commission, which may employ actuarial, clerical and other assistance necessary for the purpose and whi…

Sec. 7-323j. Definitions. As used in this part, “commission” means the Commission on Fire Prevention and Control; “municipality” means town, city, consolidated town and city, consolidated town and borough, borough, school district, fire district, fire and sewer district, sewer di…

Sec. 7-323k. Commission on Fire Prevention and Control. (a)(1) There is established a Commission on Fire Prevention and Control. Until June 30, 2025, the commission shall consist of twelve members appointed by the Governor. The State Fire Marshal or the State Fire Marshal's desig…

Sec. 7-323l. *(See end of section for amended version and effective date.) Duties of Commission on Fire Prevention and Control. Regulations. (a) The commission shall: (1) Recommend minimum standards of education and physical condition required of each candidate for any firefighte…

Sec. 7-323m. (Note: This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.) Exceptions, voluntary cooperation. This part shall not apply to any municipality which employs fewer than six paid firefighters or to any volunteer fire department or its employees or members. Any such municip…

Sec. 7-323n. *(See end of section for amended version and effective date.) Office of State Fire Administration. There is established an Office of State Fire Administration, which office shall: (a) Carry out the provisions of this part; (b) administer the state's responsibilities …

Sec. 7-323o. *(See end of section for amended version and effective date.) State Fire Administrator, appointment and duties. There is established the position of State Fire Administrator who shall be recommended by the Commission on Fire Prevention and Control and appointed by th…

Sec. 7-323p. State fire school. Training and education extension account. Auxiliary services account. (a) The Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection shall (1) maintain and operate a state fire school that shall serve as the training and education facility for the …

Sec. 7-323q. Indemnification of fire service instructors. The state shall save harmless and indemnify any person certified as a fire service instructor by the Commission on Fire Prevention and Control under section 7-323l from financial loss and expense, including legal fees and …

Sec. 7-323r. Supplemental grant award remittance program for volunteer fire companies providing services on limited access highways or on the Berlin Turnpike or a section of Route 8. Section 7-323r is repealed, effective July 1, 2022. (June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-3, S. 28; P.A. 22-118…

Sec. 7-323s. *(See end of section for amended version and effective date.) Model guidelines re municipal emergency personnel. Municipal agreements re volunteer service of paid emergency personnel. (a) The State Fire Administrator, within available appropriations, shall develop mo…

Sec. 7-323t. Municipal contracts prohibiting paid emergency personnel from volunteer service. On and after June 5, 2008, no municipality shall enter into a contract that prohibits paid firefighters or paid emergency personnel of such municipality from serving as active members of…

Sec. 7-323u. Regional fire school. Notice and hearing. Appeals. Regulations. (a) The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection, in consultation with the Commission on Fire Prevention and Control and the Connecticut State Firefighters Association, shall approve the …

Sec. 7-323v. *(See end of section for amended version and effective date.) Payments to volunteer fire companies for providing services on limited access highways or on sections of the Berlin Turnpike or Route 8. (a) The State Fire Administrator shall, within available appropriati…

Sec. 7-323w. (Note: This section is effective July 1, 2025.) Receipt and use of funds or contributions by regional fire schools. Any regional fire school may receive and use federal, state or private funds or contributions for the facilities and operations of such school. (P.A. 2…

Sec. 7-324. Definition. Continuation of former districts. For the purposes of sections 7-324 to 7-329, inclusive, “district” means any fire district, sewer district, fire and sewer district, lighting district, village, beach or improvement association and any other district or as…

Sec. 7-325. Organization. Boundary changes. Reports. Statements. (a) Upon the petition of fifteen or more voters, as defined by section 7-6, of any town, specifying the limits of a proposed district for any or all of the purposes set forth in section 7-326, the selectmen of such …

Sec. 7-326. Purposes. At such meeting, the voters may establish a district for any or all of the following purposes: To extinguish fires, to light streets, to plant and care for shade and ornamental trees, to construct and maintain roads, sidewalks, crosswalks, drains and sewers,…

Sec. 7-327. Meetings and referenda. Officers. Fiscal year. (a) At the meeting called for the purpose of establishing a district, as provided in section 7-325, the voters shall, by ordinance, fix the date of the annual meeting of the voters for the election of district officers an…

Sec. 7-327a. Petition for vote. Form. Statement by and qualification of circulator. In any case in which an action for a vote by the voters of a district is to be initiated by the petition of such voters, in addition to such other requirements as the general statutes or any speci…

Sec. 7-328. Taxation. Bonds. (a) The territorial limits of the district shall constitute a separate taxing district, and the assessor or assessors of the town shall separate the property within the district from the other property in the town and shall annually furnish the clerk …

Sec. 7-328a. Home rule action. (a) Any district, as defined by section 7-324, established by special act may, by a two-thirds vote of the voters present at a district meeting, elect to make its charter, including any amendments thereto adopted by special act, subject to amendment…

Sec. 7-328b. District may exempt motor vehicles from property tax. Any district established in accordance with the provisions of this chapter may by vote of its legislative body provide that motor vehicles shall be exempt from any tax levied by such district on the assessed value…

Sec. 7-328c. Districts established in 1839. Notwithstanding the provisions of any special act or sections 7-324 to 7-329, inclusive, any district established in 1839 by special act may, by majority of the voters present at the annual meeting or any special meeting of the district…

Sec. 7-329. Termination of district. Whenever the officers of such district vote to terminate its corporate existence and whenever a petition signed by ten per cent of the total number of persons qualified to vote in the meeting of such district or twenty of the voters of such di…

Sec. 7-329a. Establishment of port district and port authority. Jurisdiction. Any town may, by vote of its legislative body, establish a port district which shall embrace such town. The affairs of any such district shall be administered by a port authority, comprising not fewer t…

Sec. 7-329b. Definitions. As used in sections 7-329a to 7-329u, inclusive: (1) “District” means a port district established pursuant to section 7-329a, or if any such district is terminated, the entity accorded the powers and duties of sections 7-329a to 7-329u, inclusive; (2) “P…

Sec. 7-329c. Powers and duties of port authority. With the exception of state or federally owned properties, each port authority shall have power over the survey, development and operation of port facilities in its district as hereinafter specifically set forth, and the coordinat…

Sec. 7-329d. Regulations by port authority. Each port authority may make and enforce any reasonable regulations that it may determine to be necessary for the proper development, maintenance and use of the port facilities, relating to the construction, equipment, repair, maintenan…

Sec. 7-329e. Investigations. Each port authority may make any investigation which it may deem necessary to enable it effectually to carry out the provisions of sections 7-329a to 7-329f, inclusive. The port authority may enter upon any lands as in its judgment may be necessary fo…

Sec. 7-329f. Property necessary for development. The port authority may lease or acquire title to real and personal property, may encumber and pledge such property and may condemn real property located within the district which it deems necessary for the development of port facil…

Sec. 7-329g. Issuance of bonds. (a) The port authority may issue bonds from time to time in its discretion, subject to the approval of the legislative body when required by the provisions of sections 7-329a to 7-329u, inclusive, for the purpose of paying all or any part of the co…

Sec. 7-329h. Securing of bonds. In the discretion of the port authority any bonds issued under the provisions of sections 7-329a to 7-329u, inclusive, may be secured by a trust indenture by way of conveyance, deed of trust or mortgage of any project or any other property of the p…

Sec. 7-329i. Rates, rents, fees and charges. The port authority is authorized to fix, revise, charge and collect rates, rents, fees and charges for the use of and for the services furnished or to be furnished by each project and to contract with any person, partnership, associati…

Sec. 7-329j. Receipts to be trust funds. All moneys received pursuant to the authority of sections 7-329a to 7-329u, inclusive, whether as proceeds from the sale of bonds or as revenues, shall be deemed to be trust funds to be held and applied solely as provided in said sections …

Sec. 7-329k. Rights of bondholders. Any holder of bonds, notes, certificates or other evidences of borrowing issued under the provisions of sections 7-329a to 7-329u, inclusive, or of any of the coupons appertaining thereto, and the trustee under any trust indenture or agreement,…

Sec. 7-329l. Tax exemption. The exercise of the powers granted by sections 7-329a to 7-329u, inclusive, shall be in all respects for the benefit of the inhabitants of the state, for the increase of their commerce and for the promotion of their safety, health, welfare, convenience…

Sec. 7-329m. Bonds to be legal investments. Bonds issued by the port authority under the provisions of sections 7-329a to 7-329u, inclusive, shall be securities in which all public officers and public bodies of the state and its political subdivisions, all insurance companies, tr…

Sec. 7-329n. Municipal powers to aid port authority. For the purpose of aiding a port authority and cooperating in the planning, undertaking, acquisition, construction or operation of any port facility, any municipality may (1) acquire real property in its name for such port faci…

Sec. 7-329o. Provision of property to port authority. Any municipality, by ordinance, and any other governmental unit is empowered, without any referendum or public or competitive bidding, and any person is empowered, to sell, lease, lend, grant or convey to any port authority, o…

Sec. 7-329p. Lease of facilities. Any municipality, governmental unit or person is empowered to enter into and perform any lease or other agreement with any port authority for the lease to or use by such municipality, governmental unit or person of all or any part of any port fac…

Sec. 7-329q. Financial aid by municipality. For the purpose of aiding a port authority and cooperating in the planning, undertaking, acquisition, construction or operation of any port facility, any municipality, by ordinance or by resolution of its legislative body, shall have po…

Sec. 7-329r. Municipal guarantee of port authority bonds. For the purpose of aiding a port authority in the planning, undertaking, acquisition, construction or operation of any port facility, any participating municipality may, pursuant to resolution adopted by its legislative bo…

Sec. 7-329s. Pledge or assignment of lease to secure bonds. Any lease or other agreement, and any instruments making or evidencing the same, may be pledged or assigned by the port authority to secure its bonds and thereafter may not be modified except as provided by the terms of …

Sec. 7-329t. Exemption of property from levy and sale by virtue of execution. All property of a port authority shall be exempt from levy and sale by virtue of an execution and no execution or other judicial process shall issue against the same nor shall any judgment against a por…

Sec. 7-329u. Payment by port authority of sums in lieu of taxes. Every port authority and every municipality in which any property of the port authority is located may enter into agreements with respect to the payment by the port authority to such municipality of annual sums of m…