Sec. 7-12a. First selectman to be chief executive officer and ex-officio member of town boards, commissions and committees.
Sec. 7-12a. First selectman to be chief executive officer and ex-officio member
of town boards, commissions and committees. Unless otherwise provided by law, the
first selectman, in each town for which its board of selectmen is the executive authority,
shall be the chief executive officer of such town and shall be an ex-officio member,
without vote, of all town boards, commissions and committees; provided nothing herein
shall be construed to affect any special act which gives the first selectman the power to
vote on such boards, commissions and committees.
(1959, P.A. 97; P.A. 79-217.)
History: P.A. 79-217 made first selectman chief executive officer of town.
Ex-officio member of zoning commission may sit in, at hearings and executive sessions. 160 C. 295. Cited. 237 C. 135.