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Municipalities: General Provisions

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Town seal.

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.

Signposts.

Resignation of municipal officers.

Refusal of elected official to accept or perform duties.

Oath of assessors, board of assessment appeals and tax collectors.

Office of grand juror abolished.

Oath of grand jurors.

Vacancy appointments by selectmen.

City or borough liable for damage done by mobs.

Destruction of documents.

Official publications of towns, cities and boroughs to be filed in State Library. Intangible publications.

Proof of claims against municipality.

Rate of wages and citizens' preference in work on public buildings.

Marking of bounds of towns, cities and boroughs.

Renewal of boundary lines.

Establishment of disputed boundaries.

Sections
7-116 to 7-118

Street and curb lines. Sidewalks. Construction, maintenance and use of sidewalks.

Curbs and sidewalks to be designed with cuts at pedestrian crosswalks.

Sections
7-119 and 7-120

Hearing; appeal. Assignment of street numbers.

Making of specific appropriations.

Municipal loans to nonpublic schools for construction or renovation.

Contracts with regional water authorities.

Municipal guarantee of notes and bonds issued by water authority re water distribution system.

Municipality may request state review of contract with engineering consultant re wastewater.

Sewage treatment facility improvement trust fund.

Municipal Electric Consumer Advocate.

Sections
7-121g to 7-121l

Reserved for future use.

Notice of actions concerning real property in other municipalities.

Sustainable energy program.

Sites for armories. Appropriations.

Municipal fallout shelters and civil preparedness facilities.

Allocation of funds for art work in construction or remodeling of municipal buildings.

Sections
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.

Appropriations to improvement associations for road maintenance.

Sections
7-125b to 7-125d

Appropriations for assistance to nonprofit museums. Cultural commissions. Appropriations for drug abuse and dependency programs.

Transportation of children with physical disabilities and children with visual impairments.

Sections
7-127 and 7-127a

Municipal advisory welfare boards. Committees on needs of the aging.

Municipal agents for elderly persons. Duties. Responsibilities of Department of Aging and Disability Services.

Municipal agents for children.

Neighborhood youth center grant program.

Application. Matching funds for neighborhood youth centers program and Leadership, Education, Athletics in Partnership program. Advisory committee for grant application review.

Annual reports. Audit.

Annual reports to the General Assembly.

Sections
7-128 and 7-129

Public squares and parks. Gifts for parks.

Park and recreation capital and nonrecurring expense fund.

Playgrounds and recreation centers.

Public recreational facilities authorities. Definitions.

Creation of authority. Joining and withdrawal.

Commission to exercise powers of authority. Transfer of authority to municipal department and vice versa.

Powers of authority.

Municipalities may grant property and money to authority.

Operation of projects.

Bond issues.

Securing of bonds.

Rates, rents, fees and charges.

Use of receipts.

Enforcement of rights of bondholders and trustees.

Tax exemption.

Bonds to be legal investments.

Liberal construction. Consent of other bodies not required.

Municipal powers to aid authority.

Provision of property to authority.

Lease of facilities.

Financial aid by municipality.

Municipal guarantee of authority bonds.

Pledge or assignment of lease to secure bonds.

Exemption of property from levy and sale by virtue of execution.

Payment by authority of sums in lieu of taxes.

Construction of statutes. Consent of other agencies not required.

Municipal forests. Public shade trees.

Conservation commissions.

Acquisition of open space land and easements. Revaluation of property subject to easement.

Open space land. Definitions.

Protected open space and watershed land acquisition grant program: Purposes; criteria; conditions. Charter Oak open space grant program: Criteria; conditions.

Decisions of commissioner re grants. Administrative expenses. Review board. Report. Account.

Considerations for approving grants from funds authorized prior to July 1, 1998.

Grant: Amount, purposes, valuation of land. Issuance of bonds.

Charges by municipality.

Municipal use of open space land.

Taking of land by state or public service company.

Acceptance of federal funds.

Development of watershed areas for recreation and fish and wildlife sites.

Combined conservation and recreational commission.

Taking of land previously intended for use as park or for other recreational or open space purposes.

Taking of active agricultural land by eminent domain. Purchase of agricultural conservation easement or development rights. Notice to Commissioner of Agriculture.

Establishment of municipal land acquisition and development authority.

Agricultural land preservation fund.

Land acquisition fund.

Charter Oak open space trust account.

Charter Oak open space grant program: Purposes; criteria. Charter Oak open space grant program account.

Charter Oak state parks and forests program: Purposes; criteria. Charter Oak state parks and forests account.

Local and regional agricultural councils.

Municipal sale of certain real property; appraisal required.

Sections
7-132 and 7-133

Bounty: On bobcat or lynx; on snakes and wild animals.

Lockup.

Use of municipal lockup and community correctional center in another town.

Reimbursement of towns for keeping prisoners.

Payment for intoxication tests.

Municipal economic development commissions.

Sections
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.

Ordinance authorizing establishment of foreign trade zone.

Review by regional council of governments and certain state departments of application to operate foreign trade zone.

Submission of application to operate foreign trade zone.

Applicability of local planning and zoning regulations.

Preliminary review of municipal petitions, applications or requests by Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection.

Preliminary review of municipal petitions, applications or requests by Commissioner of Transportation or Office of the State Traffic Administration.

Preliminary review of municipal petitions, applications or requests by Commissioner of Public Health.

Sections
7-136k to 7-136m

Reserved for future use.

Joint issuance of bonds by two or more municipalities.

Securing of bonds.

Enforcement of rights of bondholders and trustees.

Tax exemption.

Bonds to be legal investments.

Guarantee of joint bonds by participating municipality.

Regional economic development commissions.

Powers and duties of development and industrial commissions created prior to October 1, 1965.

Establishment of industrial park.

Extension of water mains into areas used wholly or partly for industrial or commercial purposes or into residential areas.

Lien for benefits assessed for water main extension.

Assessment of railroad property for public improvements. Maintenance of sidewalks and public places.

Notice of assessment of benefits.

Assessment a lien; foreclosure.

Notice of hearing on municipal assessments.

Appeal from municipal assessments.

Completion of improvement pending appeal from appraisal of damages.

Assessment on estate of decedent.

Correction of assessments.

Clearing of waterways. Assessment of cost. Appeal.

Regulation of obstructions in waterways.