2015 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 4 - Management of State Agencies
Chapter 48 - Organization of State Agencies
Section 4-60s - Conversion of forms to electronic format. Inventory. Electronic filing system for agency proceedings. Exemption.

(a) Each state agency of the Executive Department shall explore the feasibility of converting all applications and forms used by the public to electronic format and create an inventory of all forms used by such agency.

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter 54, an agency as defined in section 4-166 may suspend any requirements for paper filing or service of documents requirements contained in any regulation adopted by such agency pursuant to subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of section 4-167 and may establish an electronic filing system for formal and informal agency proceedings. Such agency, before establishing such a system, shall give at least thirty days’ notice by posting on its Internet web site and publishing in the Connecticut Law Journal a notice of its intended action and the instructions for the use of such system. Any agency establishing such a system shall grant a request from a person, as defined in section 4-166, for an exemption from any electronic filing requirements due to a hardship communicated in writing to the agency, including, but not limited to, a lack of access to a device capable of electronic filing or the incompatibility of a specific filing with the electronic filing system.

(P.A. 11-150, S. 25; P.A. 15-1, S. 2; 15-61, S. 2.)

History: P.A. 11-150 effective July 8, 2011; P.A. 15-1 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and made a technical change therein and added Subsec. (b) re permitting an agency to accept paper applications or forms for good cause; P.A. 15-61 amended Subsec. (a) to delete “of the state government” and amended Subsec. (b) to replace provision re permitting an agency to accept paper applications or forms for good cause with provision re suspension of regulatory requirements for paper filing or service and establishing of electronic filing system and mandatory waiver of electronic filing requirements due to hardship.