Title 7 — Title 7: Municipalities

Sec. 7-314. Definitions. Exemption from Freedom of Information Act. (a) Wherever used in this section and sections 7-314a and 7-322a, the word “municipality” includes each town, consolidated town and city, consolidated town and borough, city, borough, school district, fire distri…

Sec. 7-314a. Death, disability and injury benefits. Presumption. (a) Except as provided in subsections (e) and (f) of this section, active members of volunteer fire departments and active members of organizations certified as a volunteer ambulance service in accordance with secti…

Sec. 7-314b. Collection of workers' compensation benefits by volunteer firefighters and members of volunteer ambulance services. (a) Any active member of a volunteer fire company or department engaged in volunteer fire duties or any active member of an organization certified as a…

Sec. 7-314c. Assumption of liability by the state for volunteer firefighters. The liability of a municipality shall not be affected by the implementation of sections 7-314a and 7-314b due to the assumption of liability by the state for benefits paid pursuant to the provisions of …

Secs. 7-315 to 7-322. Death benefits; payments for injuries, for treatment of injuries and occupational disease and for total disability; insurance to provide payments; notice of claim; investigation of claim; benefits exempt from attachment. Sections 7-315 to 7-322, inclusive, a…

Sec. 7-322a. Benefits for volunteers rendering service to another fire company. Any active member of a volunteer fire company who offers his services to an officer or person in charge of another fire company which is actively engaged in fire duties, and whose services are accepte…

Sec. 7-322b. Volunteers serving in municipality where employed. Fire and ambulance leaves. Enactment by municipality. List of participating members. Benefits. (a) Any active member of a volunteer fire company, as defined in section 7-314, or any emergency medical technician, as d…

Sec. 7-322c. Employers prohibited from discharging or discriminating against employees who are volunteer firefighters or members of volunteer ambulance services due to volunteer service. Remedies. (a) No employer shall discharge, or cause to be discharged, or in any manner discri…

Sec. 7-322d. Election of officers. Ballots exempt from Freedom of Information Act. Nothing in chapter 14 shall be construed to require the disclosure of secret ballots used for the election of an officer of a volunteer fire department. (P.A. 11-220, S. 4.)

Sec. 7-323. Application of part. Section 7-323 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 919; 1967, P.A. 892, S. 4.) PART V POLICEMEN AND FIREMEN SURVIVORS' BENEFIT FUND

Sec. 7-323a. Definitions. As used in this part: “Municipality” and “legislative body” shall each have the same meaning ascribed to it in section 7-425; “participating municipality” means any municipality which votes to accept the provisions of this part; “fund” means the Policeme…

Sec. 7-323b. Acceptance of part. Any municipality may, by ordinance, accept the provisions of this part, as to its policemen or firemen, or both, but such acceptance shall not repeal, amend or replace, or affect the continuance of, any pension system established in such municipal…

Sec. 7-323c. Benefit fund established. There is established a fund which shall be known as the Policemen and Firemen Survivors' Benefit Fund. The fund shall consist of contributions received from the following sources: (a) Each full-time paid policeman and fireman covered by a mu…

Sec. 7-323d. Actuarial studies of fund experience. The Retirement Commission shall make a complete actuarial study of the experience of the fund at intervals of not more than five years and shall thereupon readjust the contributions to be made by municipalities. (1963, P.A. 390, …

Sec. 7-323e. Benefits. (a) When any full-time paid police officer or firefighter who was covered by the provisions of this part dies, either before or after retirement, the surviving spouse of such police officer or firefighter shall, until the death or remarriage of such spouse,…

Sec. 7-323f. Insurance policies to provide benefits authorized. (a) All contributions received by the Retirement Commission in accordance with this part shall be paid over daily to the State Treasurer, who shall be the custodian of the fund with power to invest and reinvest as mu…

Sec. 7-323g. Withdrawal of acceptance. A municipality may withdraw its acceptance of the provisions of this part, for either its policemen or firemen or both, by the same procedure as provided in section 7-323b for acceptance of this part, provided, if survivors' benefits are, at…

Sec. 7-323h. Municipal liability for maintaining benefits. Each municipality participating in the Policemen and Firemen Survivors' Benefit Fund established by this part shall be liable to the fund for the cost of maintaining for its employees the benefits herein, including all co…

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…