Sec. 5-246. State police workweek. Work for highway contractors.
Sec. 5-246. State police workweek. Work for highway contractors. (a) (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of any regulation issued under this chapter, no state policeman shall be required to be on active duty as such more than five days in any consecutive
seven-day period except in case of emergency as determined by the Commissioner of
Public Safety. Subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of section 5-245, compensation
at a rate equal to one and one-half times an hourly rate based on his annual salary shall
be made in the case of any member or officer of the state police force who performs
work authorized by the Commissioner of Public Safety in addition to the hours of his
regular workweek as established by said commissioner, provided the Commissioner of
Public Safety shall establish no workweek which, including home-to-duty station and
duty station-to-home time, exceeds an eight-week average of forty hours per week. (2)
The Commissioner of Public Safety may authorize any member or officer of the state
police force to provide police services for private contractors at highway construction
sites. Time spent in the performance of such police services shall be in addition to the
assigned hours of the regular workweek and shall not be included in the total hours in
an eight-week average of forty hours established under this subsection. Each such state
policeman shall be compensated by the state for the performance of such services at a
rate equal to one and one-half times an hourly rate based on his annual salary. Such
private contractors shall reimburse the Division of State Police within the Department
of Public Safety for (A) the compensation of such policemen and (B) the costs related
to the performance of such services at a rate to be determined by the Commissioner of
Public Safety. Performance of such services under the provisions of this subsection shall
not constitute state service for retirement purposes under the provisions of chapter 66.
(b) A state policeman employed in an executive, administrative or professional
capacity as defined under the provisions of subsection (b) of section 5-245 who performs
work authorized by the Commissioner of Public Safety in addition to the hours of his
regular workweek as established by the commissioner shall be granted equivalent time
off with pay, except that the provisions of this subsection with respect to such work
performed on and after August 3, 1983, shall not apply to the commissioner and the
deputy commissioner. Equivalent time off with pay granted to a state police officer of
the rank of lieutenant or above for work authorized on and after June 8, 1984, shall be
taken in accordance with the provisions of the management personnel policy concerning
compensatory time adopted by the Commissioner of Administrative Services.
(c) (1) Any state policeman who has prior to May 30, 1973, accumulated service
time for which he has not been compensated shall have the option to receive for such
time either equivalent time off with pay or monetary compensation at his current rate
of pay or any combination of both options subject to the approval of the Commissioner
of Public Safety. Any such option as provided by this subdivision shall be exercised
before December 31, 1974.
(2) Any state police officer of the rank of lieutenant or above who has, prior to June
8, 1984, earned equivalent time off with pay shall use such time within five years of
said date. Failure of any such officer to do so shall result in loss of such time.
(1967, P.A. 657, S. 54; 1969, P.A. 658, S. 14; P.A. 73-432, S. 1, 2; P.A. 74-204, S. 1; P.A. 77-614, S. 19, 486, 610;
June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-23, S. 1, 3; P.A. 84-419, S. 1, 2; P.A. 88-1, S. 3, 13.)
History: 1969 act added overtime provisions to section and requirements re workweek; P.A. 73-432 added Subsecs.
(b) and (c) re policemen in executive, administrative or professional capacity and compensation for service time accumulated before May 30, 1973; P.A. 74-204 added Subsec. (a)(2) re police service at road construction sites; P.A. 77-614
replaced commissioners of finance and control and state police with secretary of the office of policy and management and
commissioner of public safety, respectively, and made state police department a division within the department of public
safety with changes re state police becoming effective January 1, 1979; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-23 amended Subsec. (b),
providing that the commissioner and deputy commissioner of public safety are ineligible for compensatory time; P.A. 84-419 amended Subsec. (b), requiring officers of the rank of lieutenant or above to take compensation time in accordance
with the state management personnel policy and amended Subsec. (c), requiring lieutenants and above to use accumulated
compensation time within five years of June 8, 1984, or lose such time; P.A. 88-1 eliminated involvement of secretary of
the office of policy and management in determination of reimbursement rate paid to division of state police, by private
contractors, for police services at highway construction sites.
Cited. 162 C. 334.