2011 Connecticut Code
Title 9 Elections
Chapter 146 Elections
Sec. 9-221. Municipal office vacancy election provisions inapplicable in certain circumstances.

      Sec. 9-221. Municipal office vacancy election provisions inapplicable in certain circumstances. (a) When under the provisions of any general statute, special act or charter, it is required that a vacancy in any municipal office be filled at the next municipal election, such provisions shall not apply to any incumbent appointed to fill such vacancy when the unexpired portion of the term for which he was appointed terminates on July first of the year in which such municipal election is to be held or within one hundred days following such next municipal election, and such incumbent appointee shall serve for the unexpired portion of such term.

      (b) When under the provisions of any general statute, special act or charter, it is required that a vacancy in any municipal office be filled at the next municipal election, such provisions shall not apply to any such vacancy which occurs after the deadline for the nomination of candidates specified in section 9-452 and any such vacancy thereafter occurring may be filled until such election, by the official or officials authorized to fill such vacancy, by the appointment of a qualified person to serve until such election and shall forthwith be filled after such election by the official or officials so authorized who are serving after such election by the appointment of a qualified person, provided the period of thirty days set forth in section 7-107 shall not begin with respect to such vacancy until the day after the day of such election and provided, if any portion of the term in which such vacancy occurred remains unexpired after the second municipal election to be held in such municipality after the time of its occurrence, it shall be filled at such second municipal election, except as herein provided.

      (c) When under the provisions of any general statute, special act or charter, it is required that a vacancy in any municipal office be filled at the next municipal election, and such a vacancy occurs after the day before the time specified in section 9-391 for the parties to endorse candidates to run in a primary for nomination to an office and prior to the deadline for the nomination of candidates specified in section 9-452, nomination of a candidate for such vacancy may be made only by a major or minor party, as defined in section 9-372, entitled to a place on the ballot with respect to such office under section 9-379 and shall be made by the appointment of a nominee by the town committee of any such party in such municipality, which nomination shall be certified to the clerk of such municipality by the chairman and secretary of such town committee not later than four o'clock p.m. of the fifth day following the deadline for the nomination of candidates specified in section 9-452, except that when such date is a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, such certification shall be made not later than four o'clock p.m. of the next succeeding business day. The municipal clerk shall include the name of any such nominee in the list of candidates of each party for the municipal offices to be filled at such election in accordance with section 9-461. Upon the occurrence of any such vacancy, such municipal clerk shall forthwith notify in writing the chairman or secretary of the town committee of any such party in such municipality of its occurrence.

      (1957, P.A. 605, S. 2; September, 1957, P.A. 1, S. 2; 1963, P.A. 17, S. 88; February, 1965, P.A. 106; 1969, P.A. 59, S. 1; 1971, P.A. 806, S. 25; P.A. 75-206, S. 3, 7; P.A. 84-319, S. 31, 49.)

      History: 1963 act changed internal references from prior primary act to its restatement; 1965 act changed reference to 21 days prior to election to 28 days and "twenty-first" to "twenty-eighth" where appearing; 1969 act added to "under the provisions of any general statute" the words "special act or charter" where appearing; 1971 act made technical changes; P.A. 75-206 changed reference to vacancies occurring between "eighty-fifth" to "ninety-ninth" where appearing, added qualification to nomination of candidate that it be made only by a "major or minor" party "as defined in section 9-372" and deleted reference to Secs. 9-453a to 9-453p, inclusive; P.A. 84-319 divided section into Subsecs., and amended provisions to relate time period for vacancy elections to the time period for party endorsements at regular elections and the deadline for nomination of candidates by minor parties.

      Subsec. (a):

      Cited. 41 CS 267.