Title 7, Title 7: Municipalities

Sec. 7-424. Penalty. Any person who, wilfully or through culpable negligence, violates any rule promulgated in accordance with the provisions of this part shall be fined not less than the amount of one month's salary of the office or position, or offices or positions, affected by…

Sec. 7-425. Definitions. The following words and phrases as used in this part, except as otherwise provided, shall have the following meanings: (1) “Municipality” means any town, city, borough, school district, regional school district, taxing district, fire district, district de…

Sec. 7-426. Separate funds. Retirement rate. Section 7-426 is repealed. (1957, P.A. 447, S. 2; September, 1957, P.A. 10, S. 5; P.A. 93-356, S. 15.)

Sec. 7-427. Participation by municipalities. (a) Any municipality except a housing authority, which is governed by subsection (b) of this section or a regional workforce development board established under section 31-3k, which is governed by section 7-427a, may, by resolution pas…

Sec. 7-427a. Enrollment procedures for employees of regional workforce development boards. Rights of previously retired members unaffected. Transfer of contributions. If the majority of the members of a regional workforce development board vote to participate in this part, employ…

Sec. 7-427b. Credit for prior service with private industry council or regional workforce development board. (a) Any employee of a regional workforce development board which has voted to participate in this part who previously was an employee of a private industry council shall r…

Sec. 7-428. Retirement on account of length of service and age. Any member of fund B shall be eligible for retirement and to receive a retirement allowance upon completing twenty-five years of aggregate service in a participating municipality or upon attaining the age of fifty-fi…

Sec. 7-429. Retirement of elective officers. If any member of a participating municipality who is an elective officer is separated from the service of the municipality by which he is employed, except for cause or by resignation, after attaining the age of sixty years and after co…

Sec. 7-430. Involuntary retirement; temporary retention. Any member, other than an elective officer, shall be retired at any time after such member has become eligible for retirement upon the recommendation of the legislative body of the municipality by which he is employed. Any …

Sec. 7-431. Separation from service before voluntary retirement age. Any member of fund B separated from the service of the municipality by which the member is employed, except for cause, after completing at least five years of continuous service but before reaching the voluntary…

Sec. 7-432. Disability retirement: Application; continuance; calculation of income. Reconsideration. (a) Any member shall be eligible for disability retirement and for a disability retirement allowance who has completed at least ten years of continuous service if such member beco…

Secs. 7-433 and 7-433a. Disability or death of firemen or policemen caused by hypertension or heart disease. Sections 7-433 and 7-433a are repealed. (1951, 1953, 1955, S. 407d; 1959, P.A. 366; 1961, P.A. 330, S. 1, 2; 1967, P.A. 770, S. 1; 1969, P.A. 380, S. 1; P.A. 92-81, S. 2, …

Sec. 7-433b. Survivors' benefits for firemen and policemen. Maximum cumulative payment. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general statute, charter or special act to the contrary affecting the noncontributory or contributory retirement systems of any municipality of the st…

Sec. 7-433c. Benefits for policemen or firemen disabled or dead as a result of hypertension or heart disease. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of chapter 568 or any other general statute, charter, special act or ordinance to the contrary, in the event a uniformed member of a pai…

Sec. 7-433d. Injury or death of fireman while engaged in fire duties with another company. Any uniformed member of a paid fire department 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…

Sec. 7-434. Continuity of service. Periods of absence of not more than ninety days in any one calendar year shall not be considered as breaking continuity of service. Periods of absence of more than ninety days by reason of a leave of absence granted by the appropriate authority …

Sec. 7-434a. Continuation of membership during service as elected official. Any member of the municipal employees' retirement system elected to serve as an official of the state or any political subdivision of the state during the 1988 calendar year or thereafter may elect, durin…

Sec. 7-435. Retirement benefits for members of fund A. Section 7-435 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 891; 1957, P.A. 447, S. 6; 1959, P.A. 471, S. 1; 1967, P.A. 547, S. 2; 1971, P.A. 644, S. 1; P.A. 79-376, S. 13; P.A. 84-106, S. 2; P.A. 93-356, S. 15.)

Sec. 7-436. Retirement benefits, monthly allowances. (a) Members not covered by Social Security. After retirement, in accordance with the provisions of this part and except as provided in subsection (g) of this section, each member of the municipal employees' retirement system wh…

Sec. 7-436a. Exclusion of period when service was eligible for special act pension system in computation of retirement credit. Inclusion of certain periods of such service. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, in computing the length of service for municipal …

Sec. 7-436b. Credit for military service for members of fund B. (a) Any member of fund B of the municipal employees' retirement system, who, prior to such member's date of employment with a municipality that is participating in said fund B, served in any branch of the armed force…

Sec. 7-437. Retirement allowance and Social Security benefits to equal sum payable under retirement system alone, when. If the commission finds that the sum of (a) any retirement allowance payable to a member under section 7-436 and (b) any concurrent benefit payable to such memb…

Sec. 7-438. Continuation of retirement allowance upon other public employment. Participation in state or municipal retirement system. (a) Any member retired under this part who again accepts employment from the state or from any municipality of the state other than a participatin…

Secs. 7-439 and 7-439a. Optional form of retirement allowance. Survivorship benefits for spouses of certain employees who had not exercised the option. Sections 7-439 and 7-439a are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 893; 1959, P.A. 273; 1967, P.A. 812; 1971, P.A. 622, S. 1; P.A. 86-243, S…

Sec. 7-439b. Cost of living adjustment to retirement allowance. (a) On July 1, 1986, and on July first of each subsequent year the State Retirement Commission shall adjust the retirement allowance of each member of the Municipal Employees' Retirement Fund and any annuitant who is…

Sec. 7-439c. Discharge of liability for increases of retirement allowance. The liability for the increase in benefits provided by sections 7-439b to 7-439d, inclusive, for retirement allowances based on service rendered before July 1, 1979, shall be discharged by extending the pe…

Sec. 7-439d. Section 7-436 limitation not applicable. The limitation of the maximum retirement allowance provided in subsection (d) of section 7-436, shall not be applicable to increases under sections 7-439b, and 7-439c. (P.A. 77-584, S. 3, 5; P.A. 93-356, S. 10; P.A. 02-89, S. …

Sec. 7-439e. Actuarial study by retirement board to determine cost impact of increases. Section 7-439e is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (P.A. 77-584, S. 4, 5; P.A. 02-89, S. 90.)

Sec. 7-439f. Study concerning restructuring of fund. Section 7-439f is repealed, effective June 6, 2024. (P.A. 79-305, S. 2, 4; P.A. 24-151, S. 90.)

Sec. 7-439g. Optional forms of retirement income. Preretirement death benefit. (a) On and after July 1, 1986, a member of the Municipal Employees' Retirement Fund may elect one of the following optional forms for retirement income by filing with the Retirement Commission a writte…

Sec. 7-439h. Erroneous payments; adjustment; waiver of repayment; regulations. (a) Should any change or error in records result in any member or beneficiary receiving from the municipal employees' retirement system more or less than he would have been entitled to receive had the …

Sec. 7-440. Contributions by members; interest; refunds to municipalities; payment to beneficiaries. (a) Each member shall contribute to the fund five per cent of his pay as to that portion of pay with respect to which contributions are not to be deducted under section 7-453 and …

Sec. 7-440a. Certain contributions by members treated as employer contributions. Each participating employer may pick up the member contributions required by section 7-440 for all compensation earned on and after January 1, 2002, and the contributions so picked up shall be treate…

Sec. 7-441. Definitions. Contributions by municipalities. Municipal issuance of employees' retirement system funding bonds. Issuance of refunding bonds. Regulations. (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “General obligation” means an obligation issued by a municipality and secure…

Sec. 7-441a. Contributions to remain at level in effect on June 30, 1980. Section 7-441a is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (P.A. 80-37, S. 2, 3; S. A. 02-12, S. 1.)

Sec. 7-442. Transfer from fund A to fund B. Section 7-442 is repealed. (1957, P.A. 447, S. 11; 1959, P.A. 432, S. 1; P.A. 93-356, S. 15.)

Sec. 7-442a. Transfer of retirement credit between municipalities. Any municipal employee who is a member of the Municipal Employees' Retirement Fund and who accepts employment with another municipality in a department which, on the date he commences employment participates or, w…

Sec. 7-442b. Transfer of retirement credit between municipal and state systems. Purchase of credit for prior state service. (a) Any person who became a member of the municipal employees' retirement system after December 31, 1964, and who previously was a member of the state emplo…

Sec. 7-442c. Credit for prior service with redevelopment agency. Any employee of a redevelopment agency of a municipality which has included such agency within the provisions of this part shall be given retirement credit for prior service to such agency upon payment of a sum equa…

Sec. 7-442d. Transfer of members of fund A to fund B by resolution of legislative body. Effective date. Transfer of assets by State Treasurer. Section 7-442d is repealed. (1971, P.A. 319, S. 1; P.A. 93-356, S. 15.)

Sec. 7-442e. Credit for prior service with Connecticut Housing Authority. Any employee of the Connecticut Housing Authority who became a member of the municipal employees' retirement system on July 1, 1986, and who had continuous service with said authority prior to participation…

Sec. 7-443. Initial rates of contribution by municipality. The Retirement Commission shall fix the initial rates of contribution by municipalities on account of future pensions based on services rendered prior and subsequent to the acceptance of this part on an actuarial study of…

Sec. 7-444. Withdrawal by a municipality. A municipality may withdraw one or more departments from the retirement system established by this part by the procedure provided in section 7-427 for acceptance of this part; provided such withdrawal shall not relieve the municipality fr…

Sec. 7-445. Liability of municipality. Each participating municipality shall be liable to the fund for the cost of maintaining for its employees the retirement system herein provided for, including all contributions collected from employees. The liability of a municipality under …

Sec. 7-446. Assignments prohibited. Any assignment by a member or beneficiary of any allowance or benefit payable under the terms of this part shall be null and void. Each such allowance and benefit shall be for the support of the member or beneficiary entitled thereto and shall …

Sec. 7-447. Custody and investment of funds. All contributions received from members and municipalities shall be paid over daily by the Retirement Commission to the State Treasurer, who shall be the custodian of the fund with power to invest and reinvest as much of said fund as i…