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Title 7 - Municipalities
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Chapter 97 - Municipalities: General Provisions
Chapter 97 - Municipalities: General Provisions
Section 7-101 - Town seal.
Section 7-101a - Protection of municipal officers and municipal employees from damage suits. Reimbursement of defense expenses. Liability insurance. Time limit for filing notice and commencement of action.
Section 7-102 - Signposts.
Section 7-103 - Resignation of municipal officers.
Section 7-104 - Refusal of elected official to accept or perform duties.
Section 7-105 - Oath of assessors, board of assessment appeals and tax collectors.
Section 7-105a - Office of grand juror abolished.
Section 7-106 - Oath of grand jurors.
Section 7-107 - Vacancy appointments by selectmen.
Section 7-108 - City or borough liable for damage done by mobs.
Section 7-109 - Destruction of documents.
Section 7-110 - Official publications of towns, cities and boroughs to be filed in State Library. Intangible publications.
Section 7-111 - Proof of claims against municipality.
Section 7-112 - Rate of wages and citizens' preference in work on public buildings.
Section 7-113 - Marking of bounds of towns, cities and boroughs.
Section 7-114 - Renewal of boundary lines.
Section 7-115 - Establishment of disputed boundaries.
Section 7-116 to 7-118 - Street and curb lines. Sidewalks. Construction, maintenance and use of sidewalks.
Section 7-118a - Curbs and sidewalks to be designed with cuts at pedestrian crosswalks.
Section 7-119 and 7-120 - Hearing; appeal. Assignment of street numbers.
Section 7-121 - Making of specific appropriations.
Section 7-121a - Municipal loans to nonpublic schools for construction or renovation.
Section 7-121b - Contracts with regional water authorities.
Section 7-121c - Municipal guarantee of notes and bonds issued by water authority re water distribution system.
Section 7-121d - Municipality may request state review of contract with engineering consultant re wastewater.
Section 7-121e - Sewage treatment facility improvement trust fund.
Section 7-121f - Municipal Electric Consumer Advocate.
Section 7-121m - Notice of actions concerning real property in other municipalities.
Section 7-121n - Sustainable energy program.
Section 7-122 - Sites for armories. Appropriations.
Section 7-122a - Municipal fallout shelters and civil preparedness facilities.
Section 7-122b - Allocation of funds for art work in construction or remodeling of municipal buildings.
Section 7-123 to 7-125 - Appropriations for: Military organizations, hospitals, health care facilities and public health nursing organizations; insect and plant disease control; Memorial Day and Old Home Week.
Section 7-125a - Appropriations to improvement associations for road maintenance.
Section 7-125b to 7-125d - Appropriations for assistance to nonprofit museums. Cultural commissions. Appropriations for drug abuse and dependency programs.
Section 7-126 - Transportation of children with physical disabilities and children with visual impairments.
Section 7-127 and 7-127a - Municipal advisory welfare boards. Committees on needs of the aging.
Section 7-127b - Municipal agents for elderly persons. Duties. Responsibilities of Department of Social Services.
Section 7-127c - Municipal agents for children.
Section 7-127d - Neighborhood youth center grant program.
Section 7-127e - Application. Matching funds for neighborhood youth centers program and Leadership, Education, Athletics in Partnership program. Advisory committee for grant application review.
Section 7-127f - Annual reports. Audit.
Section 7-127g - Annual reports to the General Assembly.
Section 7-128 and 7-129 - Public squares and parks. Gifts for parks.
Section 7-129a - Park and recreation capital and nonrecurring expense fund.
Section 7-130 - Playgrounds and recreation centers.
Section 7-130a - Public recreational facilities authorities. Definitions.
Section 7-130b - Creation of authority. Joining and withdrawal.
Section 7-130c - Commission to exercise powers of authority. Transfer of authority to municipal department and vice versa.
Section 7-130d - Powers of authority.
Section 7-130e - Municipalities may grant property and money to authority.
Section 7-130f - Operation of projects.
Section 7-130g - Bond issues.
Section 7-130h - Securing of bonds.
Section 7-130i - Rates, rents, fees and charges.
Section 7-130j - Use of receipts.
Section 7-130k - Enforcement of rights of bondholders and trustees.
Section 7-130l - Tax exemption.
Section 7-130m - Bonds to be legal investments.
Section 7-130n - Liberal construction. Consent of other bodies not required.
Section 7-130o - Municipal powers to aid authority.
Section 7-130p - Provision of property to authority.
Section 7-130q - Lease of facilities.
Section 7-130r - Financial aid by municipality.
Section 7-130s - Municipal guarantee of authority bonds.
Section 7-130t - Pledge or assignment of lease to secure bonds.
Section 7-130u - Exemption of property from levy and sale by virtue of execution.
Section 7-130v - Payment by authority of sums in lieu of taxes.
Section 7-130w - Construction of statutes. Consent of other agencies not required.
Section 7-131 - Municipal forests. Public shade trees.
Section 7-131a - Conservation commissions.
Section 7-131b - Acquisition of open space land and easements. Revaluation of property subject to easement.
Section 7-131c - Open space land. Definitions.
Section 7-131d - Protected open space and watershed land acquisition grant program: Purposes; criteria; conditions. Charter Oak open space grant program: Criteria; conditions.
Section 7-131e - Decisions of commissioner re grants. Administrative expenses. Review board. Report. Account.
Section 7-131f - Considerations for approving grants from funds authorized prior to July 1, 1998.
Section 7-131g - Grant: Amount, purposes, valuation of land. Issuance of bonds.
Section 7-131h - Charges by municipality.
Section 7-131i - Municipal use of open space land.
Section 7-131j - Taking of land by state or public service company.
Section 7-131k - Acceptance of federal funds.
Section 7-131l - Development of watershed areas for recreation and fish and wildlife sites.
Section 7-131m - Combined conservation and recreational commission.
Section 7-131n - Taking of land previously intended for use as park or for other recreational or open space purposes.
Section 7-131o - Taking of active agricultural land by eminent domain. Purchase of agricultural conservation easement or development rights. Notice to Commissioner of Agriculture.
Section 7-131p - Establishment of municipal land acquisition and development authority.
Section 7-131q - Agricultural land preservation fund.
Section 7-131r - Land acquisition fund.
Section 7-131s - Charter Oak open space trust account.
Section 7-131t - Charter Oak open space grant program: Purposes; criteria. Charter Oak open space grant program account.
Section 7-131u - Charter Oak state parks and forests program: Purposes; criteria. Charter Oak state parks and forests account.
Section 7-131v - Local and regional agricultural councils.
Section 7-131w - Municipal sale of certain real property; appraisal required.
Section 7-132 and 7-133 - Bounty: On bobcat or lynx; on snakes and wild animals.
Section 7-134 - Lockup.
Section 7-135 - Use of municipal lockup and community correctional center in another town.
Section 7-135a - Reimbursement of towns for keeping prisoners.
Section 7-135b - Payment for intoxication tests.
Section 7-136 - Municipal economic development commissions.
Section 7-136a to 7-136c - Convention and visitors commissions established by municipalities or municipal districts. Municipalities or municipal districts having coliseum authority or convention and visitors commission to receive a portion of certain state taxes; alternatives. Permitted use of state tax receipts retained by municipalities.
Section 7-136d - Ordinance authorizing establishment of foreign trade zone.
Section 7-136e - Review by regional council of governments and certain state departments of application to operate foreign trade zone.
Section 7-136f - Submission of application to operate foreign trade zone.
Section 7-136g - Applicability of local planning and zoning regulations.
Section 7-136h - Preliminary review of municipal petitions, applications or requests by Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection.
Section 7-136i - Preliminary review of municipal petitions, applications or requests by Commissioner of Transportation or Office of the State Traffic Administration.
Section 7-136j - Preliminary review of municipal petitions, applications or requests by Commissioner of Public Health.
Section 7-136n - Joint issuance of bonds by two or more municipalities.
Section 7-136o - Securing of bonds.
Section 7-136p - Enforcement of rights of bondholders and trustees.
Section 7-136q - Tax exemption.
Section 7-136r - Bonds to be legal investments.
Section 7-136s - Guarantee of joint bonds by participating municipality.
Section 7-137 - Regional economic development commissions.
Section 7-137a - Powers and duties of development and industrial commissions created prior to October 1, 1965.
Section 7-137b - Establishment of industrial park.
Section 7-137c - Extension of water mains into areas used wholly or partly for industrial or commercial purposes or into residential areas.
Section 7-137d - Lien for benefits assessed for water main extension.
Section 7-138 - Assessment of railroad property for public improvements. Maintenance of sidewalks and public places.
Section 7-139 - Notice of assessment of benefits.
Section 7-140 - Assessment a lien; foreclosure.
Section 7-141 - Notice of hearing on municipal assessments.
Section 7-142 - Appeal from municipal assessments.
Section 7-143 - Completion of improvement pending appeal from appraisal of damages.
Section 7-144 - Assessment on estate of decedent.
Section 7-145 - Correction of assessments.
Section 7-146 - Clearing of waterways. Assessment of cost. Appeal.
Section 7-147 - Regulation of obstructions in waterways.