2011 Connecticut Code
Title 9 Elections
Chapter 146 Elections
Sec. 9-169g. Town clerks required to submit voting district maps to Secretary of the State. Use of maps by General Assembly.

      Sec. 9-169g. Town clerks required to submit voting district maps to Secretary of the State. Use of maps by General Assembly. (a) The town clerk of any municipality (1) which is divided between two or more assembly districts, two or more senatorial districts or two or more congressional districts, or (2) which is not divided between any such districts but is divided into two or more voting districts for General Assembly or congressional elections, shall submit to the Secretary of the State a street map of the municipality which indicates the boundary lines of the voting districts established by the municipality in accordance with sections 9-169, 9-169a and 9-169d. The town clerk shall submit such map to the secretary in a printed or electronic format prescribed by the secretary (A) not later than thirty days after any such division first takes effect, and (B) not later than thirty days after any change in any such division takes effect.

      (b) The Secretary of the State shall make such maps available to the General Assembly, for use by the General Assembly in carrying out its responsibilities under (1) Article XXVI of the Amendments to the Constitution of Connecticut, or any subsequent corresponding state constitutional provision, with regard to the redistricting of assembly, senatorial and congressional districts, and (2) Public Law 94-171, concerning the establishment of a plan identifying the geographic areas for which specific tabulations of population are desired in the decennial census of the United States.

      (P.A. 97-116, S. 1, 2; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-7, S. 114.)

      History: P.A. 97-116 effective July 1, 1997; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-7 amended Subsec. (a)(2) by deleting provision re July 1997 dates and by specifying that submission of map shall be in printed or electronic format prescribed by Secretary, effective October 5, 2009.