§ 2-71h — Supervision, control and maintenance of State Capitol and Legislative Office Building, parking garage, grounds and other facilities and areas. Provision of press room. Display of flags.

Connecticut § 2-71h

• Jurisdiction: Connecticut
• Title 2: General Assembly and Legislative Agencies
• Ch. 18a: Joint Committee on Legislative Management

Text

(a) The supervision, security, utilization and control of the State Capitol building, the State Capitol grounds and parking facilities, exclusive of the present offices and parking facilities of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of the State and Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management and their respective staffs, the Legislative Office Building and parking garage and related structures and the grounds and parking facilities thereon, and other facilities and areas made available to or used by the committee shall be as determined by the Joint Committee on Legislative Management. The Joint Committee on Legislative Management shall maintain such buildings, related structures, grounds and parking facilities. The Joint Committee on Legislative Management shall adopt regulations (1) for the maintenance of order within such buildings and related structures and on such grounds and on those grounds, buildings and facilities made available for the use of said committee and (2) establishing the regular business hours for such buildings and all offices housed within such buildings. Any person violating any such regulations shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars, except that any person who parks a motor vehicle in violation of such regulations shall have committed an infraction and shall be fined not more than ninety dollars. The enforcement of such regulations shall be by the Office of State Capitol Police. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection, the Commissioner of Administrative Services may provide for additional parking on land under the control of the Joint Committee on Legislative Management with the approval of said committee. (b) The Joint Committee on Legislative Management shall assign permanent office space in a room in a building under its control for the use of authorized representatives of newspapers and press associations. (c) The Joint Committee on Legislative Management shall cause the national and state flags to be displayed on the State Capitol and at the Legislative Office Building from sunrise to sunset of each day. See Sec. 4b-54(b) for powers and duties re paintings, portraits, statues or tablets to be hung or placed at the State Capitol. See Sec. 5-142(a) re injuries sustained by State Capitol Police. See Sec. 5-145a re disability or death resulting from hypertension or heart disease suffered by State Capitol Police. See Secs. 29-8a and 53-39a re indemnification of State Capitol Police.

Legislative History

(1969, P.A. 749, S. 12; P.A. 76-192, S. 1; P.A. 77-614, S. 20, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 2, 136; P.A. 81-364, S. 1, 4; P.A. 82-268; 82-472, S. 3, 183; P.A. 83-13, S. 4; P.A. 84-48, S. 5, 17; P.A. 85-301, S. 2, 13; P.A. 86-396, S. 2, 25; P.A. 87-496, S. 6, 110; P.A. 89-82, S. 3, 11; P.A. 96-219, S. 5; P.A. 97-28; P.A. 11-51, S. 44.) History: P.A. 76-192 specifically included capitol grounds under provisions of section, required the legislative management committee to establish regulations for maintaining order etc.; P.A. 77-614 substituted commissioner of administrative services for public works commissioner and added Subsec. (b) concerning transfer of offices and parking facilities of finance and control department to office of policy and management; P.A. 78-303 deleted Subsec. (b); P.A. 81-364 transferred responsibility for maintenance of state capitol building, grounds and parking facilities from commissioner of administrative services to legislative management committee; P.A. 82-268 amended section by placing comptroller's facilities at capitol under the control of the legislative management committee; P.A. 82-472 added Subsecs. (b) and (c), requiring joint committee on legislative management to assign permanent space in capitol for media representatives and cause flags to be displayed on capitol daily from sunrise to sunset; P.A. 83-13 deleted reference to a special policeman appointed to enforce regulations under Sec. 29-18 in Subsec. (a) and clarified that the security of the state capitol and its grounds are the responsibility of the joint committee on legislative management; P.A. 84-48 included references to legislative office building and required that press facilities be in building under control of legislative management committee rather than in state capitol; P.A. 85-301 amended Subsec. (a) to include supervision and control of temporary legislative office buildings and, during and after construction, the legislative office building and grounds and related parking facilities; P.A. 86-396 amended Subsec. (a) to provide for additional parking, on land under the control of legislative management, by the commissioner of administrative services; P.A. 87-496 substituted public works commissioner for administrative services commissioner in Subsec. (a); P.A. 89-82 amended provisions in Subsec. (a) re supervision, control and maintenance to include legislative parking garage, related structures and other facilities and areas made available to or used by committee and to delete obsolete references to temporary legislative office buildings, parking facility or city of Hartford property and national guard garage, and amended Subsec. (c) to provide for display of flags at legislative office building; P.A. 96-219 amended Subsec. (a) by changing the name of the “Office of State Capitol Security” to the “Office of State Capitol Police”; P.A. 97-28 amended Subsec. (a) to establish a $90 fine for parking a motor vehicle in violation of regulations; pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Public Works” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Administrative Services” in Subsec. (a), effective July 1, 2011.