§ 7-135 — Use of municipal lockup and community correctional center in another town.

As used in this section and section 7-135a, “lockup” means any municipal jail, lockup or place of detention of prisoners. Subject to the provisions of section 54-63c, any officer authorized to make arrests in any town in which there is no suitable lockup, or in which the facilities of such lockup are exhausted or inadequate, shall procure a suitable lockup in an adjoining or nearby town or shall make arrangements with the nearest available community correctional center or the York Correctional Institution, as the case may be, and shall remove thereto and cause to be detained therein any person under arrest pending arraignment before the court having jurisdiction, and any municipal lockup, community correctional center or the York Correctional Institution, as the case may be, to which request is made for the detention of any such person, which lockup, center or institution has suitable available facilities, may receive, provide for and feed such person, taking from such officer a temporary surrender statement, in such form as the Commissioner of Correction shall prescribe, and giving to such officer a receipt for such persons.

Legislative History

(1949 Rev., S. 655; 1961, P.A. 1, S. 1; 566, S. 1; 1971, P.A. 136; P.A. 73-246, S. 1, 2; P.A. 76-436, S. 143, 681; P.A. 79-497, S. 2, 6; P.A. 80-313, S. 59, 60, 62; P.A. 15-14, S. 25.) History: 1961 acts authorized making arrangements with state jail as well as another municipality, required the state jail or municipal lockup to receive and provide for arrested person if facilities were available, made arresting officer or his deputy responsible for such person to, from and at the place of arraignment and at the place of trial and removed provision for payment of fees for keeping such person; 1971 act replaced state jail administrator with commissioner of correction and “state jail” with reference to community correctional centers and Connecticut Correctional Institution, Niantic; P.A. 73-246 added provision concerning pilot demonstration project; P.A. 76-436 added proviso concerning proceedings held in geographical area courthouse, effective July 1, 1978; P.A. 79-497 deleted proviso concerning proceedings in geographical area courthouses and provision concerning pilot project, effective January 1, 1981; P.A. 80-313 replaced reference to repealed Sec. 54-64 with reference to Sec. 54-63c; P.A. 15-14 made technical changes. Expense of hospitalization of arrestee not placed upon city; statute applies only to a town. 166 C. 113. Cited. 201 C. 115.