Connecticut § 8-22 Contracts and expenditures. Action by majority vote.

Connecticut Statutes

§ 8-22 — Contracts and expenditures. Action by majority vote.

Connecticut § 8-22

Title 8Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development

Ch. 126Municipal Planning Commissions

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Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-22 (2026).

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The commission may engage such employees as are necessary for its work and may contract with professional consultants. The commission may accept gifts but all of its expenditures, exclusive of such gifts, shall be within the amounts appropriated for its purposes. Action of the commission shall be taken only upon the vote of a majority of its members.

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Legislative History

(1949 Rev., S. 855.) Provision of statute that planning commission shall act only upon the vote of a majority of its members indicates chairman has no power to frustrate the majority vote of commission; held that commission itself is the head of department within the meaning of Policies and Procedures for Personnel of city of Meriden. 184 C. 1. Cited. 27 CS 78.