Sec. 8-4a. Zoning or planning commission may be designated as planning and zoning commission.
Sec. 8-4a. Zoning or planning commission may be designated as planning and
zoning commission. Any town, city or borough, unless otherwise provided by special
act, may by ordinance or by vote of its legislative body designate its zoning commission
or its planning commission as the planning and zoning commission for such municipality, and such commission shall thereupon have all the powers and duties of both a planning commission and a zoning commission and shall supersede any previous planning
commission or zoning commission, as the case may be. Such vote shall establish the
number of members to comprise such planning and zoning commission, which number
of members shall be five, six, seven, eight, nine or ten, not counting nonvoting members.
In the establishment of a five-member planning and zoning commission, the provisions
of section 8-19 shall apply. In the establishment of a planning and zoning commission
with six or more members, the provisions of section 8-19 shall apply except that the
terms of office shall be so arranged that not more than three of such terms on a six-member commission, four of such terms on a seven or an eight-member commission,
or five of such terms on a nine or ten-member commission shall expire in any one year.
Any public hearing conducted by a planning and zoning commission with six or more
members shall be held by the commission or a committee thereof appointed for that
purpose constituting a majority of the members of the commission. Any combined planning and zoning commission established under the general statutes prior to October 1,
1959, may continue to exist. Upon the establishment of a combined planning and zoning
commission, all regulations adopted by the planning commission or the zoning commission which were in effect prior to the establishment of such combined commission shall
continue in full force and effect until modified, repealed or superseded in accordance
with the provisions of this chapter and chapter 126. A vacancy on such combined planning and zoning commission shall be filled in a manner prescribed by the legislative
body of such municipality.
(1959, P.A. 614, S. 6; 679, S. 3; 1971, P.A. 362, S. 1; 763, S. 2; P.A. 75-21, S. 1, 3; P.A. 77-509, S. 10.)
History: 1971 acts added provision continuing regulations of zoning or planning commission in force until modified,
repealed or superseded by newly combined commission and extended applicability of section to cities and boroughs; P.A.
75-21 changed maximum numbers of terms to expire in one year from two to three on six-member commission, from three
to four on seven or eight-member commission and from four to five on a nine or ten-member commission; P.A. 77-509
added provision concerning filling of vacancies.
See Sec. 8-1b re alternate members of zoning commission or combined planning and zoning commission.
Annotations to former statute:
Cited. 113 C. 776. No action can be taken by town meeting unless referred to or disapproved by commission. 143 C.
152. Relationship between planning and zoning. 145 C. 28. Cited. 146 C. 570.
Annotations to present section:
Cited. 154 C. 473. Cited. 161 C. 430. Cited. 170 C. 62. Cited. 186 C. 106. Vote of a salaried municipal officer although
invalid under this statute and Sec. 8-19 did not invalidate commission's entire action in approving a zone reclassification
where total valid votes were sufficient. 196 C. 192.
Cited. 2 CA 213. Cited. 31 CA 643.