General Assembly Committee Bill No. 5554
January Session, 2017 LCO No. 5643
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Referred to Committee on PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Introduced by:
(PD)
General Assembly
Committee Bill No. 5554
January Session, 2017
LCO No. 5643
*_____HB05554PD____032717____*
Referred to Committee on PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Introduced by:
(PD)
AN ACT CONCERNING THE POLITICAL COMPOSITION OF CERTAIN MUNICIPAL POLITICAL BODIES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 9-167a of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective January 1, 2018):
(a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (2) of this subsection, the maximum number of members of any board, commission, legislative body, committee or similar body of the state or any political subdivision thereof, whether elective or appointive, who may be members of the same political party, shall be as specified in the following table:
T1 COLUMN I COLUMN II
T2 Total Membership Maximum from One Party
T3 3 ……………………………………… 2
T4 4 ……………………………………… 3
T5 5 ……………………………………… 4
T6 6 ……………………………………… 4
T7 7 ……………………………………… 5
T8 8 ……………………………………… 5
T9 9 ……………………………………… 6
T10 More than 9 ………….………........... Two-thirds of
T11 total membership
T1
COLUMN I
COLUMN II
T2
Total Membership
Maximum from One Party
T3
3 ……………………………………… 2
T4
4 ……………………………………… 3
T5
5 ……………………………………… 4
T6
6 ……………………………………… 4
T7
7 ……………………………………… 5
T8
8 ……………………………………… 5
T9
9 ……………………………………… 6
T10
More than 9 ………….………........... Two-thirds of
T11
total membership
(2) The provisions of this section shall not apply (A) to any such board, commission, committee or body whose members are elected wholly or partially on the basis of a geographical division of the state or political subdivision, (B) to a legislative body of a municipality (i) having a town meeting as its legislative body, or (ii) for which the charter or a special act, on January 1, 1987, provided otherwise, (C) to the city council of an unconsolidated city within a town and the town council of such town if the town has a town council and a representative town meeting, the town charter provides for some form of minority representation in the election of members of the representative town meeting, and the city has a city council and a body having the attributes of a town meeting, [or] (D) to the board of directors and other officers of any district, as defined in section 7-324, having annual receipts from all sources not in excess of two hundred fifty thousand dollars, or (E) to a municipal board, commission, committee or body that is advisory in nature and does not have independent regulatory powers.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 January 1, 2018 9-167a(a)
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
January 1, 2018
9-167a(a)
PD Joint Favorable
PD
Joint Favorable