2012 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 10a - State System of Higher Education
Chapter 185b - Constituent Units
Section 10a-112a - State Museum of Natural History, Office of Archaeology.


CT Gen Stat § 10a-112a (2012) What's This?

The museum of natural history at The University of Connecticut shall be the State Museum of Natural History. The museum shall (1) acquire, collect, preserve, research and interpret living, extinct and fossil organisms, anthropological and archaeological specimens, rocks and minerals, with preference to those native to this state; (2) preserve related scientific equipment, instruments and data; and (3) prepare public exhibits at the museum and educational exhibits and programs that may be used by colleges, universities, schools, libraries, institutions, appropriate state agencies or other public organizations. There shall be an Office of Archaeology at the museum. The museum shall be within The University of Connecticut.

(P.A. 85-563, S. 1, 4; P.A. 87-466, S. 2; P.A. 89-271, S. 1, 2.)

History: P.A. 87-466 required establishment of an office of archaeology; P.A. 89-271 replaced provision establishing museum as an independent entity within The University of Connecticut for administrative purposes only with provision establishing museum within The University of Connecticut.

See Sec. 10-383 re designation of museum as repository for artifacts found and data gathered during archaeological investigations on state lands.

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