Sec. 2-14. Initiation of local legislation in General Assembly.
Sec. 2-14. Initiation of local legislation in General Assembly. The General Assembly shall enact no special legislation relative to the powers, organization and form
of government of any town, city, borough or other unit of local government unless
requested by a town, city, borough or other unit of local government, in the manner
hereinafter prescribed, to enact such special legislation. A resolution requesting the
General Assembly to enact special legislation and specifying the purpose of such legislation shall be adopted: (1) By a two-thirds vote of the council or board of directors in
any town having such a body; of the board of aldermen, council or body charged with
the duty of making annual appropriations in any city or consolidated town and city; of
the board of burgesses in any borough or consolidated town and borough; or of the board
of directors or district committee in any district; or (2) by the board of selectmen or by
a majority vote of the town meeting or representative town meeting in any town not
having a council or board of directors. A request for the enactment of special legislation
by the General Assembly may also be initiated by a petition specifying the purpose of
such legislation and signed by not less than ten per cent of the electors of the town, city,
borough or other unit of local government as determined by the last-completed registry
list and filed with the clerk of such town, city, borough or other unit of local government.
Upon the filing of such petition, such clerk shall proceed forthwith to determine its
sufficiency by comparing the names thereon with those contained in such registry list
and shall certify its sufficiency or insufficiency. Such clerk shall file with the Secretary
of the State, not later than ten days prior to the convening of any session of the General
Assembly in which such proposed legislation is to be introduced, a certified copy of the
resolution as adopted or the text of the petition as signed.
(1957, P.A. 465, S. 19.)
History: (Revisor's note: In 1995 the Revisors editorially substituted Subdiv. indicators (1) and (2) for (a) and (b) for
consistency with statutory usage).
See Conn. Const. Art. X and chapter 99.
When this section is read in connection with Home Rule Act, chapter 99, it becomes clear legislature intended to provide
two separate methods-one with, one without, action by general assembly-for inaugurating and securing adoption or amendment of municipal charter. 150 C. 24. Cited. 182 C. 93. Cited. 185 C. 88. Cited. 234 C. 217.
Cited. 43 CS 470.