2014 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 4 - Management of State Agencies
Chapter 54 - Uniform Administrative Procedure Act
Section 4-173 - Omission of certain regulations from eRegulations System.

The Secretary of the State may omit from the eRegulations System (1) any regulation that is incorporated by reference into a Connecticut regulation and published by or otherwise available in printed or electronic form from a federal agency or a government agency of another state, and (2) any regulation that is incorporated by reference into a Connecticut regulation and to which a third party holds the intellectual property rights, until such time as the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management obtains a licensing agreement in accordance with section 4-67q. On and after October 1, 2014, if the Secretary of the State omits a regulation from the eRegulations System, the Secretary shall post in the system a notice identifying the omitted regulation, stating the general subject matter of the regulation and stating an address, telephone number, web site link, if applicable, and any other information needed to obtain a copy of the regulation. The Secretary of the State shall also provide a web site link, if applicable, to any regulation that is incorporated by reference into a Connecticut regulation. Such information shall be kept current and updated not less than quarterly.

(1971, P.A. 854, S. 8; P.A. 76-297, S. 4; P.A. 80-471, S. 6; P.A. 83-277, S. 2, 3; P.A. 88-133; P.A. 05-288, S. 18; P.A. 12-92, S. 7; P.A. 13-247, S. 33; 13-274, S. 8.)

History: P.A. 76-297 deleted previous Subsec. (a) requiring publication of regulations and index by October 27, 1970, and relettered remaining Subsecs. accordingly, deleting provision for periodic publication of revised index by commission on official legal publications in current Subsec. (a) (formerly Subsec. (b)); P.A. 80-471 deleted reference to regulations adopted pursuant to Sec. 4-168(b) in Subsec. (b); P.A. 83-277 amended Subsec. (b) by allowing the publication of a correlated table of former and new section numbers for those regulations submitted with technical changes; P.A. 88-133 replaced exceptions to publication of regulations in Subsec. (c) with enumerated exceptions in Subsecs. (a) and (b), added a requirement in Subsecs. (a) and (b) for publication of notice of omitted regulations, inserted new Subsec. (c) requiring agencies to make regulations available for inspection and copying, added new Subsec. (e) requiring all regulations to be maintained in law libraries and made technical changes; P.A. 05-288 made technical changes in Subsecs. (a) and (b), effective July 13, 2005; P.A. 12-92 amended Subsec. (a) to delete provisions re Commission on Official Legal Publications publishing a compilation, add provisions re Secretary posting regulations online, delete reference to commercial publishing company in Subdiv. (1), delete former Subdivs. (2) and (3) re regulation too expensive or unduly cumbersome to publish, add new Subdiv. (2) re regulation incorporated by reference until licensing agreement is obtained and require that Secretary post web site links to incorporated or omitted regulations and that information be updated quarterly, deleted former Subsecs. (b) to (e) re publication by the commission in Connecticut Law Journal, public inspection of regulations, availability of published regulations at agencies and maintaining compilation in law libraries, and added new Subsec. (b) re online regulations being the official version and authorizing Secretary to adopt regulations, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 13-247 replaced provisions re accessible and searchable online compilation of regulations with reference to eRegulations System, required Secretary, on and after October 1, 2014, to post notice of omitted regulation on system, deleted former Subsec. (b) re online compilation being official version and authorizing Secretary to adopt regulations re format of submitted regulations, and deleted Subsec. (a) designator, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 13-274 made identical changes as P.A. 13-247, effective July 1, 2013.