Sec. 7-452. Participation in federal Old Age and Survivors Insurance System. Definitions.
Sec. 7-452. Participation in federal Old Age and Survivors Insurance System.
Definitions. Terms used in sections 7-452 to 7-459, inclusive, shall be construed as
follows, unless another meaning is clearly apparent from the language or context:
(1) "Municipality" means any town, consolidated town and city, consolidated town
and borough, borough, fire district, school district, district department of health, regional
planning agency, probate district, housing authority, flood commission or authority
established by special act or other municipal association created by special law or by
general law or an instrumentality of any of these, if such instrumentality is a distinct
juristic entity legally separate from any of the above and its employees are not, through
this relation, employees of one of the above;
(2) "Commission" means the State Retirement Commission;
(3) "System" means the Old Age and Survivors Insurance System under Title II of
the Social Security Act, as amended;
(4) "Legislative body", unless otherwise provided by special act or by charter
adopted under the provisions of chapter 99, as applied to unconsolidated towns, means
the town meeting; as applied to cities and to consolidated towns and cities, means the
board of aldermen, council or other body charged with the duty of making annual appropriations; as applied to boroughs and consolidated towns and boroughs, means the board
of burgesses; as applied to fire districts, means the district meeting; as applied to district
departments of health, means the district board; as applied to probate districts, means the
judge of probate; as applied to regional planning agencies, means the regional planning
board, and, in all other cases, means the body authorized by the general statutes or by
special act to make bylaws or ordinances for the municipality;
(5) "Wages" means all remuneration for employment, including the cash value of
all remuneration paid in any medium other than cash, except that the term shall not
include that part of such remuneration which, even if it were paid for employment within
the meaning of the federal Insurance Contributions Act, would not constitute wages
within the meaning of that act;
(6) "Social Security Act" means that Act of Congress, approved August 14, 1935,
Chapter 531, 49 Stat. 620, officially cited as the Social Security Act, including regulations and requirements issued pursuant thereto, as such act has been and may from time
to time be amended;
(7) "Federal Insurance Contributions Act" means Subchapter A of Chapter 9 of the
federal Internal Revenue Code of 1939 and Subchapters A and B of Chapter 21 of
the federal Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal
revenue code of the United States, as from time to time amended;
(8) "Secretary" means the Secretary of Health and Human Services of the United
States and includes any individual to whom the Secretary has delegated any of his functions under the Social Security Act with respect to coverage under said act of employees
of states and their political subdivisions; and
(9) "Employee" includes an officer of a municipality.
(1951, 1955, S. 408d; 1957, P.A. 204; 1959, P.A. 152, S. 19; 612, S. 2; 1963, P.A. 344, S. 3; February, 1965, P.A. 549,
S. 3; 1967, P.A. 666; 1969, P.A. 402, S. 3; P.A. 89-211, S. 12.)
History: 1959 acts deleted counties from the definitions of municipality and legislative body and added probate provisions to the same definitions; 1963 act added district health department provisions to same definitions; 1965 act added
regional planning agency provisions to same definitions; 1967 act added reference to charter provisions in definition of
"legislative body"; 1969 act divided section into subdivisions; P.A. 89-211 clarified reference to the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986.
Cited. 157 C. 429. Cited. 210 C. 531.