Title 7, Title 7: Municipalities

Sec. 7-450a. Actuarial evaluation of pension and retirement systems or other postemployment health and life benefit systems. (a) Any municipality, in which a pension, retirement, or other postemployment health and life benefit system applicable with respect to any employees of su…

Sec. 7-450b. Cost of living allowance. Notwithstanding the provisions of any municipal charter or any special act to the contrary, any municipality which has established a retirement system for its officers and employees and their beneficiaries may, by ordinance, provide a cost o…

Sec. 7-450c. Diminishment or reduction of rights or benefits under pension and retirement systems. Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes or special act 01-1, no municipality or special taxing district that provides, as of July 11, 2007, a pension and retirement sy…

Sec. 7-451. Retroactive coverage. Any agreement or modification entered into under sections 7-452 to 7-455, inclusive, to cover services of employees of municipalities in positions covered by the fund may be made retroactive to the extent permitted by Section 218(f) of the Social…

Sec. 7-452. Participation in federal Old Age and Survivors Insurance System: Definitions. Terms used in sections 7-452 to 7-459, inclusive, shall be construed as follows, unless another meaning is clearly apparent from the language or context: (1) “Municipality” means any town, c…

Sec. 7-453. Membership in system. Contributions. Any municipality of the state may, by vote of its legislative body and with the approval of the commission, apply for membership in the system or provide coverage for employees in any of the services which it may have elected to ex…

Sec. 7-454. Employees not included. In determining the municipal employees entitled to participate in the system and the extent of their participation, all service performed by an employee in the employ of any municipality which joins the system, for such employer, shall be inclu…

Sec. 7-455. Referendum. (1) With respect to the employees of any municipality, the Governor shall authorize a referendum upon request of the legislative body of such municipality and shall designate the commission to supervise the conduct of such referendum, in accordance with th…

Sec. 7-456. Deductions from wages. The legislative body of each municipal member of the system shall direct the treasurer or other financial officer of the municipality to make deductions from the wages of its employees as required by section 7-453. The total amount of such deduc…

Sec. 7-457. Agreement between commission and municipality. The agreement between the commission and the municipality shall describe in detail all conditions which must be fulfilled to meet the applicable requirements of the federal Social Security Act, including a stipulation tha…

Sec. 7-458. Refund of amounts recovered from federal government. Any amount recovered by the state from the federal government by virtue of payments made under the federal-state agreement shall be equitably refunded by the state to the contributors as the commission directs. (195…

Sec. 7-459. Retroactivity. The provisions of sections 7-452 to 7-458, inclusive, and this section shall be retroactive to January 1, 1951, and any agreement or modification thereof between the state and the federal government may be made retroactive in accordance with the provisi…

Sec. 7-459a. Survivors' benefits authorized. Any municipality participating in this part may, by vote of its legislative body, provide survivors' benefits for the widows of persons covered by this part. (February, 1965, P.A. 338, S. 2.) See Sec. 7-450 re amendment of retirement o…

Sec. 7-459b. Deferred retirement option plan. (a) On or after July 1, 2025, the Retirement Commission may create a deferred retirement option plan for members of a municipality participating in the Municipal Employees' Retirement Fund. Any plan created shall permit members of the…

Sec. 7-459c. Retiree group health insurance benefits. Restriction on diminishment or elimination. Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes or special act 01-1, no municipality or subdivision of a municipality that provides group health insurance benefits to a retiree…

Sec. 7-459d. Defined contribution retirement plan. (a) On or after July 1, 2025, the State Comptroller shall create a municipal defined contribution retirement plan and prescribe the manner in which such retirement plan may be adopted by any municipality, as defined in section 7-…

Sec. 7-460. Compensation of officials and employees. Unless otherwise specifically provided in the general statutes, any municipality or subdivision thereof, through its legislative body, may fix the compensation of its officials and employees, subject to the approval of its budg…

Sec. 7-460a. Sick leave pay exclusion from Social Security contributions. Each political subdivision of the state which grants to its full-time permanent employees, on account of illness or injury, sick leave with pay, may exclude any such payment from wages for which Social Secu…

Sec. 7-460b. Residency requirements. Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes or special act or local law, ordinance or charter, no municipality may require as a condition of employment with such municipality that an employee whose position is subject to the terms of…

Sec. 7-460c. Compensatory time in lieu of overtime pay. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 31-71b and 31-76b to 31-76j, inclusive, to the contrary, any municipality may, by contract, agree with municipal employees to provide overtime compensation in the form of compensato…

Sec. 7-460d. Additional compensation for certain retired public safety employees. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes or of any charter or special act, a municipality may, by two-thirds vote of its legislative body or, in a municipality where the legislative…

Sec. 7-461. Leave of absence for reserve corps field training. Each officer and employee of any town, city or borough who is a member of the reserve corps of any branch of the armed forces of the United States, as defined in section 27-103, shall be entitled to absent himself fro…

Sec. 7-461a. Leave of absence for specialized disaster relief services. Any municipal employee, with the approval of the legislative body of the municipality employing such employee, who is a certified disaster service volunteer of the American Red Cross, may be granted a leave n…

Sec. 7-461b. Municipal employee sick leave. Use by employees who have disabilities for service animal training. (a) As used in this section, “disability” and “service animal” have the same meanings as provided in section 22-345. (b) Each chief elected official or chief executive …

Sec. 7-462. Reinstatement of employees after military leave. (a) Any employee who leaves the service of any political subdivision for the purpose of entering the armed forces of the United States shall be reinstated in his former position and duties, provided he shall make applic…

Sec. 7-463. Interest of state in employees' bonds. Whenever an official or other officer or a clerk or employee of any town, city or borough, or any of their agencies, is the repository or custodian of any funds in which the state has an interest, and such officer, official, cler…

Sec. 7-464. Group insurance benefits for municipal employees, volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance personnel. Age discrimination. Recovery of payments from collateral sources. Liens. Equitable defenses. Definitions. (a) Any town, city or borough may, through its authori…

Sec. 7-464a. Deferred compensation plan for municipal employees. Administration. Option of participating in deferred compensation program for state employees. (a) Any city, town or other political subdivision of the state may, by contract, agree with any employee to defer, in who…

Sec. 7-464b. Agreements between municipalities and public school operators to provide employee medical or health care benefits. (a) Subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, and the provisions of any collective bargaining agreement, a municipality or a public s…

Sec. 7-464c. Retirement plans offered by a political subdivision of the state. Administration. Disclosures required. (a) For the purposes of this section, “retirement plan” means any retirement plan created in accordance with the provisions of Section 403(b) of the Internal Reven…

Sec. 7-465. Assumption of liability for damage caused by employee of municipality or member of local emergency planning district. Joint liability of municipalities in district department of health or regional council of governments. (a) Any town, city or borough, notwithstanding …

Sec. 7-466. Collective bargaining authorized. Section 7-466 is repealed. (1963, P.A. 495, S. 1; February, 1965, P.A. 159, S. 12.)

Sec. 7-467. Collective bargaining. Definitions. When used in sections 7-467 to 7-477, inclusive: (1) “Municipal employer” means any political subdivision of the state, including any town, city, borough, district, district department of health, school board, housing authority or o…

Sec. 7-467a. Qualification of employee organization. No employee organization, as defined in section 7-467, shall be eligible to petition for exclusive recognition or to participate in a recognition election under section 7-471 unless it has been in existence for not fewer than s…

Sec. 7-468. Rights of employees and representatives. Duty of fair representation. (a) Employees shall have, and shall be protected in the exercise of, the right of self-organization, to form, join or assist any employee organization, to bargain collectively through representative…

Sec. 7-469. Duty to bargain collectively. The municipal employer and such employee organization as has been designated as exclusive representative of employees in an appropriate unit, through appropriate officials or their representatives, shall have the duty to bargain collectiv…

Sec. 7-470. Prohibited acts of employers and employee organizations. (a) Municipal employers or their representatives or agents are prohibited from: (1) Interfering, restraining or coercing employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed in section 7-468; (2) dominating or int…

Sec. 7-471. Powers of State Board of Labor Relations. The State Board of Labor Relations shall have the following power and authority in relation to collective bargaining in municipal employment: (1) Whenever, in accordance with such regulations as may be prescribed by the board,…

Sec. 7-471a. Supervisory employees not required to form employees association. Nothing in sections 7-467 and 7-471 shall require any employees in a supervisory position to form an employees association. (P.A. 78-375, S. 3.) Standing to test constitutionality of binding arbitratio…

Sec. 7-472. Mediation by State Board of Mediation and Arbitration. (a) The services of the State Board of Mediation and Arbitration shall be available to municipal employers and employee organizations for purposes of mediation of grievances or impasses in contract or contract reo…

Sec. 7-473. Petition to State Board of Mediation and Arbitration for fact finding. Fact finder's report and appearance before parties. Procedure for acceptance or rejection of report. Section 7-473 is repealed. (February, 1965, P.A. 159, S. 7; P.A. 75-173, S. 1; 75-570, S. 3; P.A…

Sec. 7-473a. Notice of expiration date of collective bargaining agreement. Notice of newly certified or recognized municipal employee organization. Filing; form. A notice of the expiration date of any collective bargaining agreement between a municipal employer and a municipal em…

Sec. 7-473b. Mandatory timetable for negotiations. Appointment of mediator. (a) The negotiations between a municipal employer and a municipal employee organization shall commence at least one hundred twenty days prior to the expiration date of any current collective bargaining ag…

Sec. 7-473c. Neutral Arbitrator Selection Committee. Panel of neutral arbitrators. Mandatory binding arbitration; procedure; apportionment of costs. Rejection of award by legislative body of the municipal employer. Second arbitration format. (a) The Labor Commissioner shall appoi…

Sec. 7-474. Negotiations and agreements between municipality and employee representatives. Federal approval. Elective binding arbitration; procedure; apportionment of costs. (a) Except as hereinafter provided, when an employee organization has been designated, in accordance with …

Sec. 7-474a. Provision limiting volunteer services for maintenance of buildings and grounds prohibited in collective bargaining agreements. Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, no collective bargaining agreement entered into on or after July 1, 2018, between a m…