2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 7-450. Establishment of pension and retirement systems; amendment of system established by special act.

      Sec. 7-450. Establishment of pension and retirement systems; amendment of system established by special act. Any municipality or subdivision thereof may, by ordinance, establish pension and retirement systems for its officers and employees and their beneficiaries, or amend any special act concerning its pension or retirement system, toward the maintenance in sound condition of a retirement fund or funds, provided the rights or benefits granted to any individual under any municipal retirement or pension system shall not be diminished or eliminated. The legislative body of any such municipality, by a two-thirds vote, may provide for pensions to persons, including survivors' benefits for widows of such persons, not included in such retirement or pension system.

      (1949 Rev., S. 903; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 48; February, 1965, P.A. 338, S. 1; 1967, P.A. 568; 642, S. 1.)

      History: 1965 act included provisions for survivors' benefits for widows of officials and employees; 1967 acts deleted phrase concerning specific appropriations for pensions to persons not included in retirement system or their widows and protected rights and benefits under system from diminishment or elimination as a result of any amendments to the system.

      See Sec. 7-192 re validity of municipal charters, special acts and home rule ordinances in effect on October 1, 1982, and authorization to revise charters and home rule ordinances.

      See Sec. 7-459a re survivors' benefits.

      Cited. 238 C. 809.

      Cited. 2 CA 43, 46.