2023 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 9 - Elections
Chapter 143 - Electors: Qualifications and Admission
Section 9-45. - Removal from registry list of certain convicted felons who are committed to custody of Commissioner of Correction.
(a) The Commissioner of Correction shall, on or before the fifteenth day of each month, transmit to the Secretary of the State a list of all persons who, during the preceding calendar month, have been (1) convicted in the Superior Court of a felony and committed to the custody of the Commissioner of Correction for confinement in a correctional institution or facility, or (2) returned to confinement in a correctional institution or facility from parole or special parole, release pursuant to section 18-100, 18-100c, 18-100e, 18-100h or 18-100i or furlough pursuant to section 18-101a. Such lists shall include the names, birth dates and addresses of such persons, with the dates of their conviction and the crimes of which such persons have been convicted, or the dates of the violation of their parole, special parole, release or furlough and the nature of such violation, as applicable. The Secretary of the State shall transmit such lists to the registrars of the towns in which such persons who have been convicted or returned to confinement, as applicable, resided at the time of their conviction or violation of parole, special parole, release or furlough and to the registrars of any towns where the Secretary believes such persons may be electors. The registrars of such towns shall compare the same with the list of electors upon their registry lists and, after written notice mailed by certified mail to each of the persons named at the last-known place of address of such person, shall erase such names from the registry lists in their respective towns or voting districts.
(b) Any person who procures such person or another to be registered after having been disfranchised by reason of conviction of crime and committed to the custody of the Commissioner of Correction for confinement in a correctional institution or facility or a community residence, and any person who votes at any election after having forfeited such privileges by reason of conviction of crime and confinement, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars and imprisoned not more than one year.
(1949 Rev., S. 1007; 1953, S. 547d; 1961, P.A. 105, S. 2; P.A. 96-207, S. 1, 4; P.A. 01-11, S. 1, 4; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2, S. 96.)
History: 1961 act changed annual removal of convicts' names to monthly removal and added the requirements of furnishing birth dates and sending notice by certified mail; P.A. 96-207 designated provision re transmittal of list of convicted felons to registrars of voters and removal of names from registry list as Subsec. (a), designated provisions re penalty as Subsec. (b) and amended said Subsec. (a) to replace “clerk of each court of this state having criminal jurisdiction” with “Judicial Department” and to require the Secretary of the State to receive list from Judicial Department and transmit list to appropriate registrars of voters, effective January 1, 1997; P.A. 01-11 required Commissioner of Correction, instead of Judicial Department, to transmit lists to Secretary of the State in Subsec. (a) and added provisions re committal to custody of Commissioner of Correction for confinement and made technical changes for purposes of gender neutrality in Subsecs. (a) and (b), effective January 1, 2002; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2 amended Subsec. (a) to designate existing provision re felony conviction and confinement in correctional institution or facility as Subdiv. (1) and delete reference to community residences therein, to add Subdiv. (2) re return to confinement from parole, special parole, release or furlough, to add reference to dates and nature of violation of parole, special parole, release or furlough and to make technical changes, effective July 1, 2021.
