Sec. 7-130c. Commission to exercise powers of authority. Transfer of authority to municipal department and vice versa.
Sec. 7-130c. Commission to exercise powers of authority. Transfer of authority to municipal department and vice versa. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b)
of this section, the powers of the authority shall be exercised by a commission which
shall consist of not less than five nor more than nine members who shall be appointed
by the legislative bodies of the participating municipalities and who shall be selected
in the manner and for the terms provided by the ordinance creating the authority. The
members of the commission shall elect one of their number chairman and shall elect a
secretary and treasurer who need not be members of the commission. The offices of
secretary and treasurer may be combined. A majority of the members of the commission
shall constitute a quorum and the vote of a majority of such members shall be necessary
for any action taken by the authority. No vacancy in the membership of the commission
shall impair the right of a quorum to exercise all the rights and perform all the duties
of the authority. The members of the commission shall be reimbursed for the amount
of actual expenses incurred by them in the performance of their duties. The legislative
bodies of the participating municipalities may provide for compensation of the members
of the commission.
(b) All the foregoing provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall not, however,
apply in the event such authority is or becomes a municipal departmental unit as provided
in section 7-130b, in which case the powers of the authority shall be exercised by said
department in the usual and normal manner in which it functions as such a departmental
unit of the municipality under the rules and regulations of said department and the
ordinances and the charter of said municipality.
(c) If an authority constituted as a municipal departmental unit in any municipality
as provided in section 7-130b, is replaced by an authority operating through a commission, the ordinance establishing such succeeding authority may provide that the employees of such succeeding authority shall be deemed to be employees of such municipality
for all purposes, and such municipality shall be deemed to be the employer for purposes
of section 7-467; provided that such ordinance may provide that some or all of such
employees of such succeeding authority shall not be subject to the classified civil service
requirements of such municipality.
(February, 1965, P.A. 460, S. 3; 1967, P.A. 810, S. 3; P.A. 78-376, S. 1, 6.)
History: 1967 act added Subsec. (b) excepting authorities which are departments from provisions of Subsec. (a); P.A.
78-376 added Subsec. (c) re switch from department authority to commission authority.