2019 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 46a - Human Rights
Chapter 814c - Human Rights and Opportunities
Section 46a-55 - (Formerly Sec. 31-125a). Commission legal counsel.
(a) The executive director, through the supervising attorney, shall assign a commission legal counsel to represent the commission in any proceeding wherein any state agency or state officer is an adversary party and in such other matters as the commission and the Attorney General may jointly prescribe.
(b) The executive director, through the supervising attorney, may assign a commission legal counsel to represent the commission in any hearing or appeal under subparagraph (A) of subdivision (2) of subsection (e) of section 4-61dd. Commission legal counsel may intervene as a matter of right in any such hearing or appeal without permission of the parties, a hearing officer or the court.
(1967, P.A. 715, S. 2; P.A. 80-422, S. 4; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-7, S. 93; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 191; P.A. 05-201, S. 2; P.A. 11-237, S. 2; P.A. 15-18, S. 11; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5, S. 87.)
History: P.A. 80-422 rephrased provisions and authorized counsel to represent commission in proceeding where state officers are adversary parties; Sec. 31-125a transferred to Sec. 46a-55 in 1981; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-7 required commission counsel to report to the executive director on a day-to-day basis and required executive director to evaluate the performance of the commission counsel, effective August 15, 2002; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 replaced “The commission counsel shall represent the commission” with “The executive director shall assign a commission legal counsel to represent the commission”, replaced “The commission counsel” with “Each commission legal counsel” and deleted provision requiring the executive director to evaluate the performance of the commission counsel, effective August 20, 2003; P.A. 05-201 added provision re assignment through the supervising attorney and deleted provisions re representation of commission, bar membership and reports, effective July 6, 2005; P.A. 11-237 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and added Subsec. (b) re executive director assigning commission legal counsel to represent commission in hearings or appeals under Sec. 4-61dd(b)(3); P.A. 15-18 made a technical change in Subsec. (b), effective June 5, 2015; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5 amended Subsec. (b) by replacing reference to Sec. 4-61dd(e)(2) with reference to Sec. 4-61dd(e)(2)(A) and adding “Commission legal counsel may intervene as a matter of right in any such hearing or appeal without permission of the parties, a hearing officer or the court.”.
