Sec. 7-339c. Procedure for entering agreements.
Sec. 7-339c. Procedure for entering agreements. (a) The public agencies proposing an interlocal agreement shall submit to the legislative body of each participating
public agency a copy of the proposed interlocal agreement as it may have prepared.
Within thirty days after receipt thereof, the legislative body of each participating public
agency shall hold at least one public hearing on the proposed agreement and, within
fifteen days after such hearing, or the last of such hearings, submit to each other participating public agency any recommendations for changes in the proposed agreement that
it may deem desirable.
(b) If no recommendations for changes are submitted to the public agency, the
agreement shall be deemed final. If recommendations for changes are submitted within
such time, after consideration thereof, the public agencies shall submit a final report to
the legislative body of each participating public agency, together with a copy of its
proposed agreement, if it has been revised in any respect.
(c) Within thirty days after an agreement has become final, it shall be either ratified
or rejected by vote of the legislative body of each participating public agency. If, by
any general or special law, ordinance, charter provision, bylaw, corporate article or
district rule or regulation, any subject contained in an interlocal agreement must be
submitted to a referendum before being undertaken individually by such agency or
jointly by such agency and any other public agency, the agreement shall be submitted
to a referendum of the electors of such public agency and shall not be deemed ratified
by such public agency until approved at such referendum.
(d) Unless an interlocal agreement requires ratification by a specific number of
participating public agencies, it shall take effect as to ratifying agencies at such time
as it shall provide, when ratified by any two participating agencies. Rejection by any
participating agency shall not void an agreement as to other ratifying agencies, unless
the agreement so provides.
(1961, P.A. 429, S. 3; 1967, P.A. 516, S. 3; P.A. 95-308, S. 3.)
History: 1967 act replaced previous provisions; P.A. 95-308 deleted former Subsecs. (a), (b) and (g) requiring establishment of interlocal commissions, relettered remaining Subsecs. and made technical changes.