Title 7, Title 7: Municipalities

Sec. 7-388. Annual budget meetings. Any municipality complying with the provisions of this chapter shall, at its annual meeting or at a special meeting thereof warned and held for such purpose, fix the date of a special meeting to be held prior to the beginning of the next ensuin…

Sec. 7-389. Financing of change in fiscal year. (a) Any municipality proposing a change in its fiscal year to comply with the provisions of this chapter may create a surplus in its general fund for the specific purpose of financing such a change and said municipality may, over a …

Sec. 7-390. Publication of budget. Statements by municipalities adopting uniform fiscal years. Each municipality adopting the provisions of this chapter shall publish, as provided in section 7-344, a budget statement which shall show, in addition to the items set forth in said se…

Sec. 7-391. Definitions. When used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms shall have the meanings herein specified: “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management; “municipality” includes each town, consolidated town an…

Sec. 7-392. Making of audits and filing of statements. (a) All municipalities shall have all their financial statements audited at least once annually and shall provide for audits in accordance with the provisions of sections 4-230 to 4-236, inclusive. Each audited agency, except…

Sec. 7-393. Working papers of accountant; preservation for inspection. Civil penalty. Upon the completion of an audit, the independent auditor shall file certified copies of the audit report with (1) the appointing authority, (2) in the case of a town, city or borough, with the c…

Sec. 7-394. Publication of notice that audit available for inspection by public. When the audit provided for in section 7-392 has been made, the municipal clerk shall cause to be published a legal notice in a newspaper having a substantial circulation in such municipality that su…

Sec. 7-394a. Principles and standards for audit reports. (a) The audit report prepared by an independent auditor, as defined in section 7-391, retained to render an audit for a municipality, regional school district or audited agency, or by any fiscal officer of such municipality…

Sec. 7-394b. Municipal Finance Advisory Commission. (a) There is established a Municipal Finance Advisory Commission which shall (1) review and submit any recommendations as may be deemed appropriate with respect to any regulations concerning the provisions of section 7-394a, sub…

Sec. 7-395. Secretary's review of audit report. Public meeting. Chief executive officer's or superintendent's plan for corrective action. Referral to Municipal Finance Advisory Commission. (a) The secretary shall review each audit report filed with said secretary as provided in s…

Sec. 7-396. Designation of auditor. The regional board of education and appointing authority of any municipality or audited agency shall file with the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management the name of the independent auditor, designated to audit the financial statement…

Sec. 7-396a. Audits of agencies receiving state grants. (a) Any agreement for a state grant entered into between a state agency and a public or private agency shall provide for an audit acceptable to such state agency of any grant expenditures made by such public or private agenc…

Sec. 7-397. Repeal of charter provisions. So much of any charter provisions of any municipality as is inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 827.)

Sec. 7-398. Returns concerning finances to be under oath; false statement. All reports or returns, in any respect concerning public finances or the reception or disbursement of public funds, made by selectmen or treasurers of towns and auditors or treasurers of cities, regularly …

Sec. 7-399. Uniform accounting system. Section 7-399 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 830; P.A. 77-614, S. 19, 610; P.A. 91-343, S. 10, 11.)

Sec. 7-400. Investment of funds. The treasurer of any municipality, as defined in section 7-359, upon approval by the budget-making authority, as defined in said section, of any metropolitan district, of any regional school district, of any district as defined in section 7-324, a…

Sec. 7-401. Definitions. As used in sections 7-402 and 7-403, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings unless the context indicates another meaning or intent: (1) “Deposit” or “deposits” means demand deposits, time deposits, certificates of deposit, share a…

Sec. 7-402. Deposit of public money and trust funds. (a) Any public official of any municipality may deposit any public funds received, held or controlled by such public official and belonging to such municipality, or otherwise held by such public official as such public official…

Sec. 7-403. Deposit of funds in custodian account. Any municipality which has accepted, assumed or received or which holds or manages any trust fund under the provisions of section 7-148 or 11-20 or other provisions of the general statutes may place such funds in a custodian acco…

Sec. 7-403a. Loss and retiree benefits reserve fund. (a) Upon the recommendation of the chief executive officer of a municipality and approval of the budget-making authority of the municipality, the legislative body of any municipality, as defined in section 7-369, may, by a majo…

Sec. 7-404. Bond of city or borough treasurer. Section 7-404 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 833; September, 1957, P.A. 17, S. 2; P.A. 77-614, S. 19(d), 610; P.A. 82-327, S. 12.)

Sec. 7-405. Expenditures by municipalities and regional school districts before adoption of budgets. (a) When annual appropriations have not been made by a municipality before the beginning of any fiscal year, the disbursing officers may make necessary expenditures during the per…

Sec. 7-405a. Borrowing in anticipation of receipt of taxes, water charges or federal or state grants. Any political subdivision of this state empowered to lay taxes or to provide water for the inhabitants thereof may from time to time borrow upon the note or notes of such politic…

Sec. 7-406. Town reports. The board of finance or other corresponding board in each town, or, if there is no such board, the selectmen, shall annually prepare and have published a town report. Such report shall be available for distribution and shall contain, in addition to repor…

Sec. 7-406a. Report on state-funded housing or building projects prior to municipal election. No state funds shall be used for the publication or distribution of a report on any municipal housing or building project within one month prior to any municipal election in the town in …

Sec. 7-406b. Chief executive officer to submit copy of budget to Secretary of Office of Policy and Management. Beginning with the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1992, and annually thereafter, the chief executive officer of each town, city, borough, consolidated town and city and …

Sec. 7-406c. Uniform system of accounting for municipal revenues and expenditures. Municipality to file financial data. (a) Not later than July 1, 2014, the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall, in consultation with the Department of Education, the Connecticut C…

Sec. 7-406m. Definitions. As used in this section and sections 7-406n and 7-406o: (1) “Municipal pension solvency account” means the account created in section 7-406n; (2) “Loan program” means the loans given to municipalities by the state pursuant to sections 7-406n and 7-406o; …

Sec. 7-406n. Municipal pension solvency account. Municipal pension solvency loan program. (a) There is established an account to be known as the “municipal pension solvency account” which shall be a separate nonlapsing account within the General Fund. The account shall contain: (…

Sec. 7-406o. Bond issue for municipal pension solvency loan program. (a) For the purposes of this section and section 7-406n, the State Bond Commission shall have the power, from time to time, to authorize the issuance of bonds, bond anticipation notes or other obligations of the…

Sec. 7-406p. Regulations. The Treasurer shall, in consultation with the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, to carry out the purposes of sections 7-406n and 7-406o, which may include, but not be lim…

Sec. 7-407. Method of adoption. Any political subdivision of this state may adopt the provisions of this part in the manner hereinafter provided. The legislative body or, if there is no such body, the administrative officers of such political subdivision may and, upon petition of…

Sec. 7-408. Civil service board; appointment; terms of office; removal. Within thirty days after such official determination, the chief executive officer of such political subdivision shall appoint three persons as civil service commissioners to hold office, one for two years, on…

Sec. 7-409. Purpose of part. Rules. The purpose of this part is to provide means for selecting and promoting each public official and employee upon the sole basis of his proven ability to perform the duties of his office or employment more efficiently than any other candidate the…

Sec. 7-410. Civil service board; president; chief examiner. The board shall select one of its members as president and shall, after holding a competitive test therefor, employ a chief examiner whose duty it shall be, under the direction of the board, to superintend tests. The chi…

Sec. 7-411. Classification of officers and employees. Such civil service board shall, within ninety days after the initial appointment of such commissioners, classify all the officers and employees in the departments for which the merit system has been adopted, except elective of…

Sec. 7-412. Publication of rules. All rules made as herein provided and all changes therein shall be printed forthwith for distribution by such board, and the board shall give public notice of the place or places where copies of such rules may be obtained. In each such publicatio…

Sec. 7-413. Examination of applicants. Certification. Each applicant for an office or employment in such classified service, except those exempted by or as provided by this part, shall be subjected to a test, which shall be public and competitive, subject to limitations specified…

Sec. 7-414. Classified service; eligible list; promotion. The board shall, from the returns or reports of the tests, prepare a register or eligible list, for each grade or class of positions in the classified service, of the persons who attain such minimum mark as may be fixed by…

Sec. 7-415. Credit allowances to veterans in examinations for original appointment. Any veteran who served in time of war, if he is not eligible for disability compensation or pension from the United States through the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and if he has at…

Sec. 7-416. Appointments. The appointing officer under whom a position classified under the provisions of this part is to be filled shall notify the board of that fact, and the board shall certify to him the names and addresses of a limited number of candidates, as provided in it…

Sec. 7-417. Probation; notice of appointment or of creation or abolition of office. Appointments shall be on probation for a period to be fixed by the rules of the board. At the expiration of such period of probation, the appointing officer may discharge a candidate at will, but,…

Sec. 7-418. Inmates of institutions excepted. Inmates of any institution, supported in and by any political subdivision of the state, in which the merit system is adopted and a civil service board appointed, may be assigned, by the lawful authorities thereof, without test or regi…

Sec. 7-419. Removal of officers or employees. No officer or employee in the classified civil service shall be removed, discharged or reduced in rank or pay because of religious or political opinion or affiliation. No removal from the classified civil service, except at the expira…

Sec. 7-420. Interference with or false grading of applicants. No person shall, either by himself or in cooperation with any other person or persons, wilfully or corruptly defeat, deceive or obstruct any person in relation to his right of test under the provisions of this part, or…

Sec. 7-421. Political activities of classified municipal employees. Candidacy of municipal employees for elective office. Leaves of absence. Service on governmental bodies of the town in which the employee resides. (a) No person employed in the classified civil service may (1) us…