Title 7 — Title 7: Municipalities

Sec. 7-339q. Board of commissioners of district. Contract awards. The ordinance establishing a special services district shall provide that the business of such district shall be conducted by a board of commissioners and by such agents as the ordinance may authorize them to desig…

Sec. 7-339r. Tax levy for benefit of special services district. (a) An ordinance establishing a special services district shall provide the time and manner for determining the levy on real property within such district which is recommended by the board of commissioners of such di…

Sec. 7-339s. Dissolution of special services district. (a) At any time after a special services district has been established pursuant to sections 7-339m and 7-339o, such district may be dissolved in any one of the following ways: (1) By the adoption of an ordinance repealing the…

Sec. 7-339t. Provisions of ordinance creating special services district. The provisions of any municipal charter or of any general statute or special act to the contrary notwithstanding, an ordinance establishing a special services district may provide: (a) That the municipality …

Sec. 7-339u. Statement re mill rate and tax levy in special services district. Not later than July 1, 2024, and annually thereafter, each special services district established under this chapter shall submit a statement to the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management on a…

Secs. 7-339v to 7-339bb. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 7-340. Towns may establish. Any town may, at any annual or special meeting, warned and held for that purpose, vote to establish a board of finance. If such vote is in the affirmative, a certificate of such approval shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of such town an…

Sec. 7-340a. Alternate members of boards of finance. Appointment or election provided for by ordinance. Any town, in addition to such powers as it has under the provisions of the general statutes, any special act or municipal charter, shall have the power to provide by ordinance …

Sec. 7-341. Oath. Expenses. The members of the board of finance shall be sworn to a faithful performance of their duties. No member shall receive compensation for his services as such, but the necessary expenses of the board, when approved, shall be paid by the town. (1949 Rev., …

Sec. 7-342. Officers. Meetings. Filing of minutes and records. Polling of members. Such board shall choose one of its members to be chairman thereof and shall choose a clerk. If such officers are not chosen within one month after the appointment or election of the board because o…

Sec. 7-343. Filling of vacancies. In case of a vacancy in the membership of the board of finance, unless otherwise provided by charter or special act, the remaining members of the board shall, at a special meeting called by the chairman for that purpose, by a majority vote, appoi…

Sec. 7-344. Appropriations. Laying of tax. Not less than two weeks before the annual town meeting, the board shall hold a public hearing, at which itemized estimates of the expenditures of the town for the ensuing fiscal year shall be presented and at which all persons shall be h…

Sec. 7-345. Information concerning town agencies. Each town agency which has expended any appropriation during the past year or is requesting any appropriation for the ensuing year shall report to the board of finance such information as said board requires for its purposes under…

Sec. 7-346. Tax may be apportioned over a period of years. Wherever used in this section, the phrase “recurring expenditure” means an expenditure for a purpose for which an appropriation was made in each of the three preceding fiscal years. If any expenditure, other than a recurr…

Sec. 7-347. May transfer unexpended balances. The board may transfer unexpended balances from one appropriation to another, but no amount appropriated for any purpose, whether general or special, shall be used or appropriated for any other purpose unless the same is recommended b…

Sec. 7-348. Towns not to contract in excess of appropriations. Town meeting to increase amount. No officer of such town shall expend or enter into any contract by which the town shall become liable for any sum which, with any contract then in force, shall exceed the appropriation…

Sec. 7-349. Penalty. Any officer who, in violation of any provision of this chapter, expends or causes to be expended any money of such town, except for the purpose of paying judgments rendered against such town, shall be liable in a civil action in the name of such town, and the…

Sec. 7-350. Grant of funds. Section 7-350 is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (1949 Rev., S. 782; P.A. 82-239, S. 1, 7; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)

Secs. 7-351 to 7-358. How apportioned on division of a town. On division of a town new receipts may be taken. Conditions of deposit. Custodian of fund; duties. Treasurer's bond and report of losses. Management. Release or assignment of security. Deficiency to be made good. Sectio…

Sec. 7-359. Definitions. When used in this chapter, “municipality” means any town, city or borough, whether consolidated or unconsolidated, and any fire district, and “budget-making authority”, as applied to towns, cities and boroughs, whether consolidated or unconsolidated, havi…

Sec. 7-360. Creation of fund. Upon the recommendation and approval of the budget-making authority, the legislative body of any municipality, by a majority vote, may create a reserve fund for capital and nonrecurring expenditures, costs associated with a property tax revaluation a…

Sec. 7-361. Procurement of fund. Upon the recommendation of the budget-making authority and approval by the legislative body, there shall be paid into such reserve fund (a) amounts authorized to be transferred thereto from the general fund cash surplus available at the end of any…

Sec. 7-362. Investment of fund. The budget-making authority may, from time to time, direct the treasurer to invest, such portion of such fund as in its opinion is advisable, provided: (1) Not more than thirty-one per cent of the total amount invested shall be invested in equity s…

Sec. 7-363. Information re fund. The treasurer shall annually make available information and data on the condition of such fund to the budget-making authority and to the public and such information and data may be made a part of the annual report of the municipality. (1949 Rev., …

Sec. 7-364. Use of fund. Upon the recommendation of the budget-making authority and approval by the legislative body, any part or the whole of such fund may be used for (1) capital and nonrecurring expenditures, but such use shall be restricted to the financing of all or part of …

Sec. 7-365. Termination of appropriation. If any authorized appropriation is set up pursuant to the provisions of section 7-364 and through unforeseen circumstances the completion of the project or acquisition for which such appropriation has been designated is impossible of atta…

Sec. 7-366. Appropriation when reserve fund insufficient. If, in the opinion of the budget-making authority, such reserve fund is insufficient to meet the cost of any capital or nonrecurring expenditure, property tax revaluation or plan of conservation and development which it de…

Sec. 7-367. Amount of fund not to exceed current tax levy. No payments shall be made to the reserve fund as provided for in section 7-361 which will cause the amount of such fund to exceed the current tax levy of the municipality, except for the addition of interest and dividends…

Sec. 7-368. Discontinuance of reserve fund. Said reserve fund may be discontinued, after recommendation by the budget-making authority to the legislative body and upon approval of said body, and said fund shall be converted into, or added to, a sinking fund to provide for the ret…

Sec. 7-369. Authority to issue bonds. When any municipality has made appropriations or incurred debts exceeding ten thousand dollars, including appropriations to pay such municipality's share of capital costs incurred pursuant to the terms of an interlocal agreement approved by s…

Sec. 7-369a. Issuance of bonds subject to federal income taxes. Any municipality having the power to issue bonds or other obligations under any provision of the general statutes, or of any special act or its charter, may issue such bonds or other obligations in such form and mann…

Sec. 7-369b. Representations and agreements to ensure desired federal income tax treatment of municipal debt obligations. Any municipality may make representations and agreements which are necessary or appropriate to ensure the exemption from taxation of interest on bonds, notes …

Sec. 7-370. Manner of issuance. Any municipality, as defined in section 7-369, which issues bonds, notes or other obligations pursuant to the provisions of the general statutes or any special act may designate the manner in which such bonds, notes or other obligations shall be is…

Sec. 7-370a. Interest rate not limited. Any municipality, as defined in section 7-369, authorized to issue bonds, notes or other obligations under any provision of the general statutes or any special act or its charter, may issue such bonds, notes or other obligations bearing int…

Sec. 7-370b. Authority to establish credit facilities. In connection with or incidental to the carrying or selling and issuance of bonds or notes, any municipality, as defined in section 7-369, may obtain from any commercial bank, insurance company, subsidiary of such bank or ins…

Sec. 7-370c. Authority to issue refunding bonds for payment, funding or refunding of bonds, notes or other obligations previously issued. (a) Any municipality, as defined in section 7-369, which has issued bonds, notes or other obligations pursuant to any public or special act ma…

Sec. 7-371. Form of bonds. Unless otherwise provided by the general statutes or any special act, bonds issued by any municipality, as defined in section 7-369, by authority of any provision of the general statutes or of any special act shall be serial bonds maturing in annual or …

Sec. 7-371a. Sale of municipal bonds by negotiation. Consolidated maturity schedule. (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Bonds” means bonds, notes or other obligations of a municipality, including loans obtained from state or federal agencies; (2) “Municipality” means any town…

Sec. 7-372. Issuing of bonds by beach associations and similar subdivisions. No beach association, or any other subdivision of any town, city or borough of a similar nature, wherein more than fifty per cent of the property owners are nonresidents, shall issue bonds pledging the s…

Sec. 7-373. Banks to certify municipal bonds. Disbursing agent. Each town, city, borough, school district, fire district and sewer district and each other municipal corporation and association having a population of less than ninety thousand inhabitants as determined by the feder…

Sec. 7-374. Bonded indebtedness of municipalities. (a) Definitions. As used in this section, “town” includes each town, consolidated town and city and consolidated town and borough; “municipality” excludes each town and includes each other independent and dependent political and …

Sec. 7-374a. Prior debt limitation not reduced. Subsection (b) of section 7-374 and subsection (b) of section 10-56 shall not operate to reduce the debt limitation of any town or municipality below that in effect on June 27, 1963. (1963, P.A. 604, S. 3; P.A. 73-616, S. 5.) Histor…

Sec. 7-374b. Issuance of debt obligations for funding of judgments, property or casualty losses and costs of municipal projects to abate deleterious conditions re residential building concrete foundations. (a) A municipality, as defined in section 7-369, and any regional school d…

Sec. 7-374c. Municipal pension deficit funding bonds. (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Actuarial valuation” means a determination certified by an enrolled actuary, in a method and using assumptions meeting the parameters established by generally accepted accounting principl…

Sec. 7-374d. Municipal issue of pension deficit funding bonds or temporary notes in anticipation of receipt of proceeds. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (e) of section 7-374c or of any special act, charter, special act charter, home-rule ordinance, local ordinance or…

Sec. 7-375. Inconsistent special act provisions. Any provision of any special act inconsistent with the provisions of subsection (b) of section 7-374 is repealed. (1953, S. 364d.)

Sec. 7-376. Redemption of outstanding bonds. Any town which has issued any bonds or other obligations under or by virtue of any statute, public or private, shall have the power to redeem them by issuing new bonds or other obligations. (1949 Rev., S. 808.)

Sec. 7-377. Redemption of bonds before maturity. Any city or borough, by vote of its legislative body, or any town or other municipality which is authorized to levy and collect taxes, by vote, at a meeting warned and held for that purpose, may authorize the treasurer or other cus…

Sec. 7-377a. Destruction of bonds and notes after payment or transfer of ownership. Any town or municipality, as defined in subsection (a) of section 7-374, or other body politic and corporate organized and existing under the laws of the state may destroy or provide for the destr…

Sec. 7-378. Anticipation notes. Whenever any municipality, as defined in section 7-369, has authorized the issuance of general obligation bonds under the provisions of any public or special act, it may authorize the issuance of temporary notes in anticipation of the receipt of th…