2012 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 52 - Civil Actions
Chapter 899 - Evidence
Section 52-163 - Judicial notice of special acts, regulations of state and municipal agencies and municipal ordinances.

The court shall take judicial notice of: (1) Private or special acts of this state, (2) regulations of any agency of this state, as defined in section 4-166, (3) ordinances of any town, city or borough of this state, and (4) regulations of any board, commission, council, committee or other agency of any town, city or borough of this state.

(1949 Rev., S. 7886; 1967, P.A. 353; P.A. 90-19, S. 2.)

History: 1967 act added municipal ordinances to purview of statute; P.A. 90-19 reorganized provisions, deleted provision re judicial notice of “printed books or pamphlets purporting on their face to be the session or other statutes of the several states and territories in the United States or of any foreign jurisdiction”, added provision requiring judicial notice of regulations of any agency of this state and of any board, commission, council, committee or other agency of any town, city or borough of this state, and inserted Subdiv. indicators.

Cited. 2 CA 315. Statute permits courts to take judicial notice of municipal ordinances which include zoning regulations. 5 CA 455, 457. Cited. 13 CA 124. Scope of statute not extended to include rules and procedures of a local housing authority. 23 CA 366. Cited. 24 CA 49.

Cited. 8 CS 257. Cited. 27 CS 514. Cited. 33 CS 562.

Where law of New York applicable by stipulation of parties applied to case, and parties failed to establish what that law is, court will assume it is same as Connecticut law. 5 Conn. Cir. Ct. 629. Cited. 6 Conn. Cir. Ct. 539.