2019 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 7 - Municipalities
Chapter 99* - Municipal Charters and Special Acts
- Section 7-187 - Definitions.
- Section 7-188 - Initiation of action for adoption, amendment or repeal of charter or home rule ordinance.
- Section 7-189 - Form of petition.
- Section 7-190 - Commission: Appointment, membership, duties, report, termination.
- Section 7-191 - Charters, charter amendments and home rule ordinance amendments: Hearings; draft and final report; public notice; referendum; effective date; filing of copies with Secretary of the State; file maintained by State Library.
- Section 7-191a - Adoption of home rule ordinance.
- Section 7-191b - Amendments to charters to modify budget adoption dates.
- Section 7-192 - Existing provisions not affected. Amendments to charters. Amendment or revision of home rule ordinance. Supersedence of certain special acts by municipal ordinance. Termination of certain parking authorities and boards of health.
- Section 7-192a - New tax not authorized by general statutes prohibited. Provisions affecting elections and electors not to be adopted.
- Section 7-193 - Required provisions. Organization of government.
- Section 7-194 - Powers.
- Section 7-195 - Consolidation of governments.
- Section 7-196 - Form of petition.
- Section 7-197 - Consolidation commission.
- Section 7-198 - Duties of commission.
- Section 7-199 - Referendum.
- Section 7-200 - Consolidation of school districts. Charter revisions in consolidation process.
- Section 7-201 - Receipt of funds. Appropriations.
*See Conn. Const. Art. X and Sec. 2-14.
Cited. 147 C. 60. If charter empowers legislative body of municipality to adopt and amend its own rules of order in exercising certain legislative function, such body need not act by ordinance or resolution. 148 C. 33, 44. Cited. 149 C. 631, 747. Home Rule Act covers entire field of charter drafting or amendment by municipalities so far as that is allowed to be done by them without action of General Assembly; act controls previously enacted special laws which are inconsistent with it, and methods it prescribes may be employed irrespective of any existing charter provisions; home rule, so far as it relates to charter changes, may be exercised only in accordance with provisions of general statutes; when Sec. 2-14 is read in connection with Home Rule Act, it becomes clear that legislature intended to provide two separate methods–one with, and one without, action by General Assembly–for inaugurating and securing adoption or amendment of a municipal charter. 150 C. 24. Cited. 152 C. 676; 156 C. 260. Plaintiffs as taxpayers had no standing as individuals to challenge the constitutional and legal existence of city of Danbury in action for declaratory judgment; doctrine of de facto municipal corporations discussed. Id., 347. Cited. 171 C. 74; 172 C. 60; 174 C. 282; 178 C. 81; 180 C. 243; 182 C. 93; 185 C. 88. Provisions do not authorize a municipality to restrict the candidacy of unclassified state employees for elective office. 192 C. 399. Does not authorize municipal recall elections. 195 C. 524. Cited. 196 C. 623; 197 C. 554; 201 C. 377; 208 C. 543; 216 C. 112; 219 C. 217; 225 C. 378; 234 C. 513; 242 C. 678.
Cited. 16 CA 213; 42 CA 599.
Omission of zoning powers from enumeration of specific powers granted towns under chapter compels conclusion that legislature did not intend that any action under chapter should alter the declared law under the general zoning enabling act; that law is that zoning commissions have the exclusive power to enact and change zoning regulations and zone boundaries. 25 CS 378. Cited. 28 CS 286, 298, 413; 36 CS 74; 40 CS 539.
