Bill Text: CT HB06966 | 2015 | General Assembly | Comm Sub
Bill Title: An Act Concerning Municipal Newspaper Postings.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-08 - File Number 532 [HB06966 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2015-HB06966-Comm_Sub.html
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January Session, 2015 |
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AN ACT CONCERNING MUNICIPAL NEWSPAPER POSTINGS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 1-2 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective January 1, 2016):
(a) Each provision of the general statutes, the special acts or the charter of any town, city, [or] borough [which] or metropolitan district that requires the insertion of an advertisement of a legal notice in a daily newspaper shall be construed to permit such advertisement to be inserted in a weekly newspaper, including, but not limited to, a weekly newspaper distributed free of charge to the residents of the town, city, borough or metropolitan district; but this section shall not be construed to reduce or otherwise affect the time required by law for giving such notice. Whenever notice of any action or other proceeding is required to be given by publication in a newspaper, either by statute or order of court, the newspaper selected for that purpose, unless otherwise expressly prescribed, shall be one having a substantial circulation in the town in which at least one of the parties, for whose benefit such notice is given, resides.
(b) With respect to any requirement for the insertion of an advertisement of a legal notice in a newspaper by a town, city, borough or metropolitan district, a description of such legal notice containing a brief summary of the matter being noticed and a reference to the Internet web site of the newspaper in which such legal notice is placed may be published in lieu of the full legal notice. Any newspaper that offers publication of such legal notices on an Internet web site shall post the full legal notice in a conspicuous location on such web site and make any such full legal notice available to the public free of charge.
Sec. 2. Subsection (a) of section 1-225 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective January 1, 2016):
(a) The meetings of all public agencies, except executive sessions, as defined in subdivision (6) of section 1-200, shall be open to the public. The votes of each member of any such public agency upon any issue before such public agency shall be reduced to writing and made available for public inspection within forty-eight hours and shall also be recorded in the minutes of the session at which taken. Not later than seven days after the date of the session to which such minutes refer, such minutes shall be available for public inspection and posted on such public agency's Internet web site, if available. [, except that no public agency of a political subdivision of the state shall be required to post such minutes on an Internet web site.] Each public agency shall make, keep and maintain a record of the proceedings of its meetings.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: | ||
Section 1 |
January 1, 2016 |
1-2 |
Sec. 2 |
January 1, 2016 |
1-225(a) |
Statement of Legislative Commissioners:
In section 1, "or metropolitan district" was inserted after the references to town, city or borough for conformity.
PD |
Joint Favorable Subst. |