2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 29-17a. Criminal history records checks. Procedure. Fees.

      Sec. 29-17a. Criminal history records checks. Procedure. Fees. (a) If a criminal history records check is required pursuant to any provision of the general statutes, such check shall be requested from the State Police Bureau of Identification and shall be applicable to the individual identified in the request. The requesting party shall arrange for the fingerprinting of the individual or for conducting any other method of positive identification required by the State Police Bureau of Identification and, if a national criminal history records check is requested, by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The fingerprints or other positive identifying information shall be forwarded to the State Police Bureau of Identification which shall conduct a state criminal history records check. If a national criminal history records check is requested, the State Police Bureau of Identification shall submit the fingerprints or other positive identifying information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a national criminal history records check, unless the Federal Bureau of Investigation permits direct submission of the fingerprints or other positive identifying information by the requesting party.

      (b) The Commissioner of Public Safety may charge fees for conducting criminal history background checks as follows:

      (1) Except as provided in subdivision (2) of this subsection, for a person requesting (A) a state criminal history records check, the fee charged by the Department of Public Safety for performing such check, and (B) a national criminal history records check, the fee charged by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for performing such check.

      (2) For a state agency requesting a national criminal history records check of a person, the fee charged by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for performing such check. The state agency shall reimburse the Department of Public Safety for such cost. Unless otherwise provided by the provision of the general statutes requiring the criminal history records check, the state agency may charge the person a fee equal to the amount paid by the state agency under this subdivision.

      (P.A. 01-175, S. 31, 32.)

      History: P.A. 01-175 effective July 1, 2001.

      See Secs. 10-221d, 12-559, 12-578, 12-586f, 12-586g, 12-802b, 12-815a, 14-44, 17a-151, 17b-749k, 17b-750, 18-81l, 19a-80, 19a-87b, 19a-491b, 21-40, 21-100, 22a-6m, 29-29, 29-36g, 29-145, 29-152f, 29-155, 29-156a, 29-349, and 38a-660 re using criminal history records checks in accordance with Sec. 29-17a.

      See Sec. 17a-6a re criminal history records checks for applicants for positions with the Department of Children and Families.

      See Sec. 17a-114 re criminal history records checks for persons sixteen years of age or older living in household of child placement applicant.