Sec. 4-5. "Department head" defined.
Sec. 4-5. "Department head" defined. As used in sections 4-6, 4-7 and 4-8, the
term "department head" means Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management,
Commissioner of Administrative Services, Commissioner of Revenue Services, Banking Commissioner, Commissioner of Children and Families, Commissioner of Consumer Protection, Commissioner of Correction, Commissioner of Economic and Community Development, State Board of Education, Commissioner of Emergency
Management and Homeland Security, Commissioner of Environmental Protection,
Commissioner of Agriculture, Commissioner of Public Health, Insurance Commissioner, Labor Commissioner, Liquor Control Commission, Commissioner of Mental
Health and Addiction Services, Commissioner of Public Safety, Commissioner of Social
Services, Commissioner of Developmental Services, Commissioner of Motor Vehicles,
Commissioner of Transportation, Commissioner of Public Works, Commissioner of
Veterans' Affairs, Commissioner of Health Care Access, Chief Information Officer,
the chairperson of the Public Utilities Control Authority, the executive director of the
Board of Education and Services for the Blind, the executive director of the Connecticut
Commission on Culture and Tourism, the Ombudsman for Property Rights and the
executive director of the Office of Military Affairs. As used in sections 4-6 and 4-7,
"department head" also means the Commissioner of Education.
(March, 1950, 1953, S. 27d; 1959, P.A. 412, S. 3; 637, S. 1; 1967, P.A. 152, S. 4; 522, S. 4; 657, S. 80; 1969, P.A. 664,
S. 17; 768, S. 57; 814, S. 7; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 3; P.A. 73-599, S. 7; 73-677, S. 2; P.A. 75-519, S. 2, 12; 75-537, S. 17, 55;
75-638, S. 8, 23; P.A. 77-614, S. 4, 610; P.A. 79-598, S. 2, 27; P.A. 80-482, S. 3, 345, 348; P.A. 84-342, S. 2, 13; P.A. 86-175, S. 2, 4; P.A. 87-9, S. 2, 3; 87-496, S. 1, 110; P.A. 93-91, S. 1, 2; 93-262, S. 26, 87; 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-250, S.
13, 42; 95-257, S. 11, 12, 21, 40, 58; 95-309, S. 11, 12; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-9, S. 14, 50; P.A.
03-84, S. 4; 03-217, S. 2; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(c),(e), 147, 241; P.A. 04-189, S. 1; 04-205, S. 5; 04-219, S.
1; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 04-2, S. 30; P.A. 06-187, S. 11; P.A. 07-73, S. 2(b); 07-114, S. 2; 07-205, S. 2.)
History: 1959 acts deleted milk administrator and athletic commissioner and changed titles of commissioner of agriculture to commissioner of agriculture and natural resources and commissioner of food and drugs to commissioner of consumer
protection; 1967 acts included commissioner of correction, commissioner of community affairs and personnel commissioner in definition; 1969 acts included commissioner of children and youth services and commissioner on aging in definition and substituted commissioner of transportation for highway commissioner; 1971 act removed responsibility for natural
resources from commissioner of agriculture and included commissioner of environmental protection; P.A. 73-599 included
commissioner of the department of commerce; P.A. 73-677 replaced personnel commissioner with commissioner of personnel and administration; P.A. 75-519 replaced commissioner of personnel and administration with personnel commissioner;
P.A. 75-537 included commissioner of planning and energy policy; P.A. 75-638 included commissioner of mental retardation; P.A. 77-614 rewrote section to reflect changes mandated by reorganization of executive branch, deleting finance and
control, banking, social services, insurance, health, public works, tax, community affairs, personnel, commerce and planning and energy commissioners and including secretaries of the office of policy and management and of business regulation,
the state board of education and administrative services, revenue services, economic development, health services, public
safety, income maintenance and human resources commissioners; P.A. 79-598 included commissioner of housing; P.A.
80-482 replaced secretary of business regulation with commissioner of banking and included the commissioner of insurance,
the liquor control commission and the public utilities control authority; P.A. 84-342 replaced public utilities control authority with chairperson of the authority; P.A. 86-175 added commissioner of veterans' affairs; (Revisor's note: Pursuant to
P.A. 87-9, "banking commissioner" was changed editorially by the Revisors to "commissioner of banking"); P.A. 87-496 added commissioner of public works to definition of "department head"; P.A. 93-91 substituted commissioner and
department of children and families for commissioner and department of children and youth services, effective July 1,
1993; P.A. 93-262 removed reference to the commissioner on aging, department of income maintenance and department
of human resources, substituting reference to department of social services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 93-381 replaced
commissioner of health services with commissioner of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A.
95-250 and P.A. 96-211 replaced Commissioners of Economic Development and Housing with Commissioner of Economic
and Community Development; P.A. 95-257 added the Commissioner of Health Care Access, replaced Commissioner of
Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner of Public Health and replaced Commissioner of Mental Health
with Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 95-309 changed effective date
of P.A. 95-250 but did not affect this section; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-9 included "Chief Information Officer" in definition
of "department head", effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 03-84 changed "Commissioner of Banking" to "Banking Commissioner",
effective June 3, 2003; P.A. 03-217 added "executive director of the Board of Education and Services for the Blind" to
definition of "department head", effective July 9, 2003; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 added "executive director of the
Connecticut Commission on Arts, Tourism, Culture, History and Film" to definition of "department head", effective
August 20, 2003, and changed "Commissioner of Consumer Protection" to "Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer
Protection" and removed reference to "Commissioner of Agriculture", effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Secs.
146 and 147 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer
Protection, effective June 1, 2004; P.A. 04-205, effective June 3, 2004, and May Sp. Sess. P.A. 04-2, effective May 12,
2004, both replaced Connecticut Commission on Arts, Tourism, Culture, History and Film with Connecticut Commission
on Culture and Tourism; P.A. 04-219 added Commissioner of Emergency Management and Homeland Security, effective
January 1, 2005; P.A. 06-187 added the Ombudsman for Property Rights, effective July 1, 2006; pursuant to P.A. 07-73
"Commissioner of Mental Retardation" was changed editorially by the Revisors to "Commissioner of Developmental
Services", effective October 1, 2007; P.A. 07-114 added language re Commissioner of Education; P.A. 07-205 added the
executive director of the Office of Military Affairs.
See Sec. 4-20 re bond requirement.
Cited. 184 C. 1.