Any town or company aggrieved by the action of the commissioner may, within one month from the time of such action, make application in the nature of an appeal therefrom to the superior court of the judicial district in which such applicant is located, which shall be accompanied by a citation to said commissioner to appear before said court. Such citation shall be signed by the same authority, and such appeal shall be returnable at the same time and in the same manner, as is required in case of a summons in a civil action and shall be served upon the commissioner. The authority issuing the citation shall take from the applicant a bond or recognizance to the state of Connecticut, with surety, except that in case of an application by a town no surety shall be required, to prosecute the application to effect and to comply with the orders and decrees of the court in the premises. Such applications shall be preferred cases, to be heard, unless cause appears to the contrary, at the first session, by the court or by a committee appointed by the court, and the pendency of such application shall, subject to the order of the court thereupon, suspend action upon the tax against the applicant, but shall not suspend proceedings in collecting other taxes. Said court may grant such relief as may be equitable and, if the application is without probable cause, may tax double or triple costs, as the case demands; and, upon all such applications which are denied, costs may be taxed against the applicant at the discretion of the court, but no costs shall be taxed against the state.

(1949 Rev., S. 1711; P.A. 78-280, S. 2, 127.)

History: P.A. 78-280 substituted “judicial district” for “county”.

Cited. 113 C. 17; Id., 663; 117 C. 199; 215 C. 292. Legislature intended for Sec. 12-597, rather than this section, to govern an appeal from decision of Commissioner of Revenue Services concerning a request for a refund of the petroleum tax because Sec. 12-597 more specifically applies and this section does not contain any language indicating that it applies notwithstanding any other provision of law. 301 C. 268.