2019 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 7 - Municipalities
Chapter 91* - Selectmen
- Section 7-10 - Oath.
- Section 7-11 - Bonds.
- Section 7-12 - Duties of selectmen.
- Section 7-12a - First selectman to be chief executive officer and ex-officio member of town boards, commissions and committees.
- Section 7-12b - Record of meetings.
- Section 7-13 - Orders on town treasurer.
- Section 7-14 - Land records indexes. Examination of land records. Attestation of records and photocopies. Town records. Certification as to examination of records and indexes. General index of land records. Penalties.
- Section 7-15 - Detection of crime.
*Annotations to former statutes regarding overseers: Being in derogation of common right, such statute is to be strictly construed. 3 D. 131; 1 C. 79; 5 C. 357. Selectmen making appointment maliciously and without cause are liable in damages. 2 R. 214. Damages will be implied in such case, but not if appointment is invalid. 1 C. 317. Appointment without time limitation is void. Id., 79. Appointment over nonresident is invalid. 3 C. 591. One under overseer is sui juris, except as to contracts. Id.; 5 C. 362. The disability as to contracts is general. 13 C. 247. Powers of selectmen as “overseers of the poor” differ essentially from those of overseers appointed. 38 C. 192. A deed from a ward to his overseer is void. 5 C. 257. A ward may, without the consent of his overseer, appoint appraisers of his land, on execution levied. Id., 357.
