Bill Text: CT SB00432 | 2012 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: An Act Making Technical Revisions To Statutes Concerning Notification Of The Secretary Of The State.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-15 - Public Hearing 03/19 [SB00432 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2012-SB00432-Introduced.html

General Assembly

 

Raised Bill No. 432

February Session, 2012

 

LCO No. 2094

 

*02094_______GAE*

Referred to Committee on Government Administration and Elections

 

Introduced by:

 

(GAE)

 

AN ACT MAKING TECHNICAL REVISIONS TO STATUTES CONCERNING NOTIFICATION OF THE SECRETARY OF THE STATE.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Section 7-16a of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):

If a town clerk is appointed under a special law or a town charter, the appointing authority or, if none, the chief executive official of the town, shall, [within] not later than ten days after such an appointment is made, file a notice of such appointment with the Secretary of the State, indicating the name and address of the person appointed, the date and method of such appointment and the law under which the appointment was made. [Within] Not later than ten days after a vacancy occurs in the appointed office of town clerk, the first selectman or chief executive official of the town shall notify the Secretary of the State of such vacancy.

Sec. 2. Section 7-19 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):

Each town clerk may, unless otherwise provided by charter or ordinance, appoint assistant town clerks, who, having taken the oath provided for town clerks, shall, in the absence or inability of the town clerk, have all the powers and perform all the duties of the town clerk. [Within] Not later than ten days after a town clerk appoints an assistant town clerk, the town clerk shall file a notice of such appointment with the Secretary of the State, indicating the name and address of the person appointed, the date and method of such appointment and the law under which the appointment was made. [Within] Not later than ten days after a vacancy occurs in the office of assistant town clerk, the town clerk shall notify the Secretary of the State of such vacancy.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:

Section 1

from passage

7-16a

Sec. 2

from passage

7-19

Statement of Purpose:

To make technical revisions.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]

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