§ 7-35 — Preservation by town clerks of statutes, special acts and Register and Manual.

Connecticut § 7-35

• Jurisdiction: Connecticut
• Title 7: Municipalities
• Ch. 92: Town Clerks

Text

The latest revision of the general statutes, the latest cumulative supplements thereto, the latest edition of the special acts and the latest edition of the Register and Manual shall be kept for public use in the office of the town clerk. Any person who destroys or appropriates any of such publications to his own use, or wilfully removes them from such office, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars. All other publications of the state, whether or not deposited in the town clerk's office under the provisions of any existing public or special act, may be turned over by the town clerk to the appropriate county law library, or library service center, or to the State Library or the State Records Center in Rocky Hill, for processing and disposition as may be directed by the Commission on Official Legal Publications and the State Librarian. See Sec. 2-49 re distribution of house and senate journals.

Legislative History

(1949 Rev., S. 49; 1967, P.A. 393; P.A. 91-37.) History: 1967 act replaced provision requiring preservation of legislative journals and supreme court reports in town clerk's office with requirement that latest revision, supplements etc. be preserved for public use and others turned over to appropriate library or center for disposition; P.A. 91-37 deleted requirement that the last fifty-two issues of the Connecticut Law Journal be sent to town clerks.