The Commissioner of Administrative Services may accept and execute any trusts, testamentary or otherwise, created or established for the purpose of procuring, erecting and maintaining any memorial on public grounds or within public buildings of the state or any municipality therein, and the court of probate in which a will creating any such trust has been proved may appoint said commissioner as trustee to execute such trust without requiring said commissioner to furnish a probate bond as such trustee; but this section shall not be construed as empowering said commissioner to erect or maintain any such memorial upon the grounds or within or upon any public building belonging to the state without the consent of the General Assembly, nor upon any grounds nor within or upon any public building belonging to any city or town, without the consent of the common council of the city or the selectmen of the town, as the case may be. The commissioner shall not, without special authority from the General Assembly, make, erect or remove from its location any statue or sculpture upon the property of the state.

(1949 Rev., S. 3534; March, 1950, S. 1902d; 1959, P.A. 152, S. 7; P.A. 77-614, S. 73, 610; P.A. 87-496, S. 40, 110; P.A. 11-51, S. 60; P.A. 13-247, S. 210.)

History: 1959 act removed references to county and county commissioners; P.A. 77-614 replaced public works commissioner with commissioner of administrative services; P.A. 87-496 replaced administrative services commissioner with public works commissioner; Sec. 4-135 transferred to Sec. 4b-62 in 1989; P.A. 11-51 replaced “Commissioner of Public Works” with “Commissioner of Administrative Services” and added requirement that commissioner consult with Commissioner of Construction Services, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 13-247 deleted provision re consultation with Commissioner of Construction Services, effective July 1, 2013.

Annotation to former section 4-135:

Cited. 140 C. 124.