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Chapter 97

• Sec. 7-101. Town seal.
• Sec. 7-101a. Protection of municipal officers and municipal employees from damage suits. Reimbursement of defense expenses. Liability insurance. Time limit for filing notice and commencement of action
• Sec. 7-102. Signposts.
• Sec. 7-103. Resignation of municipal officers.
• Sec. 7-104. Refusal of elected official to accept or perform duties.
• Sec. 7-105. Oath of assessors, board of assessment appeals and tax collectors.
• Sec. 7-105a. Office of grand juror abolished.
• Sec. 7-106. Oath of grand jurors.
• Sec. 7-107. Vacancy appointments by selectmen.
• Sec. 7-108. City or borough liable for damage done by mobs.
• Sec. 7-109. Destruction of documents.
• Sec. 7-110. Official publications of towns, cities and boroughs to be filed in State Library. Intangible publications.
• Sec. 7-111. Proof of claims against municipality.
• Sec. 7-112. Rate of wages and citizens' preference in work on public buildings.
• Sec. 7-113. Marking of bounds of towns, cities and boroughs.
• Sec. 7-114. Renewal of boundary lines.
• Sec. 7-115. Establishment of disputed boundaries.
• Secs. 7-116 to 7-118. Street and curb lines. Sidewalks. Construction, maintenance and use of sidewalks.
• Sec. 7-118a. Curbs and sidewalks to be designed with cuts at pedestrian crosswalks.
• Secs. 7-119 and 7-120. Hearing; appeal. Assignment of street numbers.
• Sec. 7-121. Making of specific appropriations.
• Sec. 7-121a. Municipal loans to nonpublic schools for construction or renovation.
• Sec. 7-121b. Contracts with regional water authorities.
• Sec. 7-121c. Municipal guarantee of notes and bonds issued by water authority re water distribution system.
• Sec. 7-121d. Municipality may request state review of contract with engineering consultant re wastewater.
• Sec. 7-121e. Sewage treatment facility improvement trust fund.
• Secs. 7-121f to 7-121l.
• Sec. 7-121m. Notice of actions concerning real property in other municipalities.
• Sec. 7-122. Sites for armories. Appropriations.
• Sec. 7-122a. Municipal fallout shelters and civil preparedness facilities.
• Sec. 7-122b. Allocation of funds for art work in construction or remodeling of municipal buildings.
• Secs. 7-123 to 7-125. Appropriations for: Military organizations, hospitals, health care facilities and public health nursing organizations; insect and plant disease control; Memorial Day and Old Home
• Sec. 7-125a. Appropriations to improvement associations for road maintenance.
• Secs. 7-125b to 7-125d. Appropriations for assistance to nonprofit museums. Cultural commissions. Appropriations for drug abuse and dependency programs.
• Sec. 7-126. Transportation of crippled children and children with defective eyesight.
• Secs. 7-127 and 7-127a. Municipal advisory welfare boards. Committees on needs of the aging.
• Sec. 7-127b. Municipal agents for elderly persons. Responsibilities of Department of Social Services.
• Sec. 7-127c. Municipal agents for children.
• Sec. 7-127d. Neighborhood youth center grant program.
• Sec. 7-127e. Application. Matching funds for neighborhood youth centers program and Leadership, Education, Athletics in Partnership program. Advisory committee for grant application review.
• Sec. 7-127f. Quarterly reports. Audit.
• Sec. 7-127g. Annual reports to the General Assembly.
• Secs. 7-128 and 7-129. Public squares and parks. Gifts for parks.
• Sec. 7-129a. Park and recreation capital and nonrecurring expense fund.
• Sec. 7-130. Playgrounds and recreation centers.
• Sec. 7-130a. Public recreational facilities authorities. Definitions.
• Sec. 7-130b. Creation of authority. Joining and withdrawal.
• Sec. 7-130c. Commission to exercise powers of authority. Transfer of authority to municipal department and vice versa.
• Sec. 7-130d. Powers of authority.
• Sec. 7-130e. Municipalities may grant property and money to authority.
• Sec. 7-130f. Operation of projects.
• Sec. 7-130g. Bond issues.
• Sec. 7-130h. Securing of bonds.
• Sec. 7-130i. Rates, rents, fees and charges.
• Sec. 7-130j. Use of receipts.
• Sec. 7-130k. Enforcement of rights of bondholders and trustees.
• Sec. 7-130l. Tax exemption.
• Sec. 7-130m. Bonds to be legal investments.
• Sec. 7-130n. Liberal construction. Consent of other bodies not required.
• Sec. 7-130o. Municipal powers to aid authority.
• Sec. 7-130p. Provision of property to authority.
• Sec. 7-130q. Lease of facilities.
• Sec. 7-130r. Financial aid by municipality.
• Sec. 7-130s. Municipal guarantee of authority bonds.
• Sec. 7-130t. Pledge or assignment of lease to secure bonds.
• Sec. 7-130u. Exemption of property from levy and sale by virtue of execution.
• Sec. 7-130v. Payment by authority of sums in lieu of taxes.
• Sec. 7-130w. Construction of statutes. Consent of other agencies not required.
• Sec. 7-131. Municipal forests.
• Sec. 7-131a. Conservation commissions.
• Sec. 7-131b. Acquisition of open space land and easements. Revaluation of property subject to easement.
• Sec. 7-131c. Open space land. Definitions.
• Sec. 7-131d. Protected open space and watershed land acquisition grant program: Purposes; criteria; conditions. Charter Oak open space grant program: Criteria; conditions.
• Sec. 7-131e. Decisions of commissioner re grants. Administrative expenses. Review board. Report. Account.
• Sec. 7-131f. Considerations for approving grants from funds authorized prior to July 1, 1998.
• Sec. 7-131g. Grant: Amount, purposes, valuation of land. Issuance of bonds.
• Sec. 7-131h. Charges by municipality.
• Sec. 7-131i. Municipal use of open space land.
• Sec. 7-131j. Taking of land by state or public service company.
• Sec. 7-131k. Acceptance of federal funds.
• Sec. 7-131l. Development of watershed areas for recreation and fish and wildlife sites.
• Sec. 7-131m. Combined conservation and recreational commission.
• Sec. 7-131n. Taking of land previously intended for use as park or for other recreational or open space purposes.
• Sec. 7-131o. Taking of active agricultural land by eminent domain. Purchase of agricultural conservation easement or development rights. Notice to Commissioner of Agriculture.
• Sec. 7-131p. Establishment of municipal land acquisition and development authority.
• Sec. 7-131q. Agricultural land preservation fund.
• Sec. 7-131r. Land acquisition fund.
• Sec. 7-131s. Charter Oak open space trust account.
• Sec. 7-131t. Charter Oak open space grant program: Purposes; criteria. Charter Oak open space grant program account.
• Sec. 7-131u. Charter Oak state parks and forests program: Purposes; criteria. Charter Oak state parks and forests account.
• Secs. 7-132 and 7-133. Bounty: On bobcat or lynx; on snakes and wild animals.
• Sec. 7-134. Lockup.
• Sec. 7-135. Use of municipal lockup and community correctional center in another town.
• Sec. 7-135a. Reimbursement of towns for keeping prisoners.
• Sec. 7-135b. Payment for intoxication tests.
• Sec. 7-136. Municipal economic development commissions.
• Secs. 7-136a to 7-136c. Convention and visitors commissions established by municipalities or municipal districts. Municipalities or municipal districts having coliseum authority or convention and visi
• Sec. 7-136d. Ordinance authorizing establishment of foreign trade zone.
• Sec. 7-136e. Review by regional planning agency and certain state departments of application to operate foreign trade zone.
• Sec. 7-136f. Submission of application to operate foreign trade zone.
• Sec. 7-136g. Applicability of local planning and zoning regulations.
• Secs. 7-136h to 7-136m.
• Sec. 7-136n. Joint issuance of bonds by two or more municipalities.
• Sec. 7-136o. Securing of bonds.
• Sec. 7-136p. Enforcement of rights of bondholders and trustees.
• Sec. 7-136q. Tax exemption.
• Sec. 7-136r. Bonds to be legal investments.
• Sec. 7-136s. Guarantee of joint bonds by participating municipality.
• Sec. 7-137. Regional economic development commissions.
• Sec. 7-137a. Powers and duties of development and industrial commissions created prior to October 1, 1965.
• Sec. 7-137b. Establishment of industrial park.
• Sec. 7-137c. Extension of water mains into areas used wholly or partly for industrial or commercial purposes or into residential areas.
• Sec. 7-137d. Lien for benefits assessed for water main extension.
• Sec. 7-138. Assessment of railroad property for public improvements. Maintenance of sidewalks and public places.
• Sec. 7-139. Notice of assessment of benefits.
• Sec. 7-140. Assessment a lien; foreclosure.
• Sec. 7-141. Notice of hearing on municipal assessments.
• Sec. 7-142. Appeal from municipal assessments.
• Sec. 7-143. Completion of improvement pending appeal from appraisal of damages.
• Sec. 7-144. Assessment on estate of decedent.
• Sec. 7-145. Correction of assessments.
• Sec. 7-146. Clearing of waterways. Assessment of cost. Appeal.
• Sec. 7-147. Regulation of obstructions in waterways.