(a) The clerk of each municipality shall, within ten days after the municipal election, return to the Secretary of the State a statement of the name, post-office address and term of each person elected to office in such election. If an elected town clerk is registrar of vital statistics, ex officio, such return shall so indicate. Each municipal clerk neglecting to make such return shall be fined not more than twenty-five dollars.
(b) The Secretary of the State shall keep a record of the names of the registrars of vital statistics and town clerks so returned. The secretary may certify that the persons named in such record are the registrars of vital statistics or the town clerks, as the case may be, of their respective towns for the period for which they were respectively elected.
(1949 Rev., S. 523; 1953, S. 798d; P.A. 88-45, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 88-45 designated existing section as Subsec. (a), amended Subsec. (a) to require return to indicate when elected town clerk is registrar of vital statistics, ex officio, and added Subsec. (b) re record and certification of registrars of vital statistics and town clerks.
When town clerk's duty under former section mandatory. 18 CS 73.