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      Sec. 54-97. Mittimus required for commitment to correctional facility. No person may be committed to a correctional institution or a community correctional center without a mittimus signed by the judge or clerk of the court which committed such person or, with respect to a person sentenced to a period of special parole, signed by the chairperson of the Board of Pardons and Paroles, declaring the cause of commitment and requiring the warden or Community Correctional Center Administrator to receive and keep such person in the correctional institution or the community correctional center, as the case may be, for the period fixed by the judgment of said court or said board or until such person is legally discharged; and such mittimus shall be sufficient authority to the officer to commit such person, and to the warden or Community Correctional Center Administrator to receive and hold such person in custody, except that any community correctional center may receive any person as provided in section 7-135 without such mittimus.

      (1949 Rev., S. 8813; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 194; 1961, P.A. 1, S. 3; 566, S. 3; 1963, P.A. 642, S. 75; 1969, P.A. 297; P.A. 80-313, S. 49; P.A. 04-234, S. 2, 7.)

      History: 1959 act deleted obsolete reference to trial justice; 1961 acts added exception re Sec. 7-135; 1963 act deleted obsolete references to workhouses and substituted state jail administrator for warden or master; 1969 act replaced jails and their administrators with community correctional centers and their administrators; P.A. 80-313 substituted "may" for "shall" and added reference to incarceration in Somers facility for period fixed by court's judgment or until discharge effected; P.A. 04-234 replaced references to the Connecticut Correctional Institution, Somers with "correctional institution", authorized the commitment by a mittimus signed by the chairperson of the Board of Parole of a person sentenced to a period of special parole, authorized retention of the person for the period fixed by "said board" and made technical changes for purposes of gender neutrality, effective June 8, 2004, and replaced Board of Parole with Board of Pardons and Paroles, effective July 1, 2004.

      As to service of process of U. S. courts. 5 D. 193; 7 Cranch 550. Upon proceedings of habeas corpus, sheriff is proper party defendant; issuing of mittimus is a judicial act; interested justice of the peace is disqualified; a mittimus, valid on its face, seems a protection to the officer. 60 C. 426; 91 C. 510. Nature of mittimus; justice may issue after adjournment of court. 67 C. 359. All persons participating in proceedings under void mittimus are liable. 64 C. 319. Mittimus may issue pending appeal. 84 C. 566. Cited. 132 C. 303. Cited. 185 C. 540, 547, 548. Cited. 215 C. 418, 429. Cited. 230 C. 17, 23.

      "Mittimus" distinguished from "execution". 15 CS 271. Cited. 16 CS 79.