2011 Connecticut Code
Title 9 Elections
Chapter 143 Electors: Qualifications and Admission
Sec. 9-37. Making of final registry list; registrars' sessions for revision and correction of preliminary list.

      Sec. 9-37. Making of final registry list; registrars' sessions for revision and correction of preliminary list. Each registrar shall keep a copy of the preliminary registry list for his use in revision. Such registrars shall give notice in such list of the times and places at which they will hold one or more sessions during the period between the Saturday of the fifth week before the regular election and the Saturday of the fourth week before the regular election, for the revision and correction of such list which, when completed, shall be termed the "final registry list" for such election. In each municipality having a population of more than five thousand, they shall also give notice of such times and places by publication in a newspaper circulating in such municipality and by posting the same on the signpost therein, if any, and at the office of the town clerk at least five days before the first of such sessions. The number of sessions shall be fixed by the registrars of each municipality. The registrars shall also hold sessions, of which no public notice need be given, for the purpose of correcting such preliminary list, and for the purpose of adding to such list the names of persons entitled to be registered thereon, on each day they are in session for the admission of electors pursuant to section 9-17, and they may also hold sessions for revision and correction of the registry list on any other day, except during the period of six days preceding any regular election. On the fourteenth day before a primary, the registrars shall hold an additional session to hear such requests for adding names to the registry list, in accordance with the procedure provided in this section, and the registrars shall publish notice of such sessions in a newspaper having general circulation in such municipality at least five days before such sessions. Nothing in this section shall require that such publication be in the form of a legal advertisement.

      (1949 Rev., S. 1004; 1953, S. 539d; 1963, P.A. 202; P.A. 75-287, S. 3; P.A. 77-298, S. 1; P.A. 81-350, S. 10, 17; P.A. 83-391, S. 10, 24; P.A. 84-146, S. 5; P.A. 96-134, S. 2, 9.)

      History: 1963 act placed the fixing of the number of sessions in the registrars rather than the selectmen; P.A. 75-287 added provision that any person whose name has been removed since the last regular election may apply to registrars to add his name to list and further provided that on the third Saturday before a primary, registrars shall hold an additional session to hear requests for adding names, having published notice of such session at least five days in advance; P.A. 77-298 added "fourteenth day" to "third Saturday before a primary" and changed "session" to "sessions"; P.A. 81-350 amended section to require registrars to post notice of sessions to revise and correct preliminary registry list at the office of the town clerk on and after July 1, 1981, and eliminated the procedure whereby electors were permitted to apply to the registrars to have a name added to or deleted from the registry list; P.A. 83-391 deleted reference to board for admission of electors; P.A. 84-146 made technical change re posting of notice on signpost; P.A. 96-134 deleted reference to mandatory session on the third Saturday before a primary and added provision that publication need not be in the form of a legal advertisement, effective May 29, 1996.