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Home » US Law » 2022 Connecticut General Statutes » VOLUME 2 » Title 7 - Municipalities » Chapter 97 - Municipalities: General Provisions

Section 7-101. – Town seal.

Each town shall provide itself with a seal with the name of the town and the state and the word “seal” inscribed thereon and may place thereon any such other suitable inscription or design as it determines. If any town changes any design or inscription upon its seal, a certificate describing such change shall be […]

Section 7-101a. – Protection of municipal officers and municipal employees from damage suits. Reimbursement of defense expenses. Liability insurance. Time limit for filing notice and commencement of action.

(a) Each municipality shall protect and save harmless any municipal officer, whether elected or appointed, of any board, committee, council, agency or commission, including any member of a local emergency planning committee appointed from such municipality pursuant to section 22a-601, or any municipal employee, of such municipality from financial loss and expense, including legal fees […]

Section 7-102. – Signposts.

One or more signposts may be erected and maintained in each town, at such place or places as the selectmen shall designate. (1949 Rev., S. 626; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 10; P.A. 82-327, S. 4.) History: P.A. 82-327 made signpost requirement permissive rather than mandatory and deleted provisions re erection of additional signposts and changes […]

Section 7-103. – Resignation of municipal officers.

Unless otherwise provided by law, any elected or appointed town, city or borough officer, except the town, city or borough clerk, desiring to resign from his office shall submit his resignation in writing to the town, city or borough clerk, as the case may be; and any such clerk desiring to resign from his office […]

Section 7-107. – Vacancy appointments by selectmen.

Except as otherwise provided by law, if any vacancy occurs on any town board or commission, and such board or commission has power by law to fill such vacancy but fails to do so within thirty days after it occurs, the board of selectmen or chief executive authority of such town may appoint a qualified […]

Section 7-108. – City or borough liable for damage done by mobs.

Each city and borough shall be liable for all injuries to person or property, including injuries causing death, when such injuries are caused by an act of violence of any person or persons while a member of, or acting in concert with, any mob, riotous assembly or assembly of persons engaged in disturbing the public […]

Section 7-109. – Destruction of documents.

Any official, board or commissioner of a municipality may, with the approval of the chief administrative officer of such municipality and of the Public Records Administrator, destroy any document in his or its custody relating to any matter which has been disposed of and of which no record is required by law to be kept, […]

Section 7-113. – Marking of bounds of towns, cities and boroughs.

Each town, city and borough shall procure its bounds to be set out by plain and durable marks and monuments, which shall be either an iron pipe or rod, projecting at least six inches above the surface of local permanent rocks, or by stone pillars, set at least three feet in and one foot above […]

Section 7-115. – Establishment of disputed boundaries.

When the selectmen of adjoining towns, or of a town and the warden and burgesses of a borough or the mayor and clerk of a city therein or adjoining, do not agree as to the place of the division line between their respective communities, the Superior Court, upon application of either, shall appoint a committee […]