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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 7242
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 4702
Referred to Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY AND SECURITY
Introduced by:
(PS)
AN ACT CONCERNING PO LICE OFFICERS AT INDEPENDENT
INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 29-19 of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2019): 2
(a) The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection 3
may, upon the application of any electric distribution, gas, telephone 4
or water company owning, leasing, maintaining, managing or 5
controlling any property, plant or equipment in this state, commission, 6
during the commissioner's pleasure, one or more persons designated 7
by such company who, having been sworn, may act at the expense of 8
such company as police officers upon the premises used or occupied 9
by such company in its business, or upon any highway adjacent to 10
such premises, for the proper protection of such plant or property, and 11
each police officer so appointed may arrest and take before some 12
proper authority any person in the police officer's precinct for any 13
offense committed [therein] in the precinct. The commissioner may 14
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appointed as [herein] provided in this subsection as the commissioner 16
deems necessary. When any such commission is issued or revoked, the 17
commissioner shall notify the clerk of the superior court for each 18
judicial district in which it is intended that such police officer shall act 19
or cease to act. 20
(b) The commissioner may, upon the application of any railroad, 21
express company or steamboat company, engaged in the business of 22
transportation in this state, or upon the application of any corporation 23
owning or having control of the roads in any private residence park, or 24
upon the application of the Connecticut Airport Authority, 25
commission, during the commissioner's pleasure, one or more persons 26
designated by such company or by such corporation, or one person 27
designated by such authority, who, having been sworn, may act, at the 28
expense of such company, corporation or authority, as a police officer 29
or police officers, as the case may be, upon the premises used by such 30
company or authority in its business, or upon its cars, vessels or 31
airplanes, or upon the roads and land owned by or under the control 32
of such corporation or authority, and each police officer so appointed 33
may arrest and take before some proper authority any person in the 34
police officer's precinct for any offense committed [therein] in the 35
precinct. When any such commission is issued or revoked, the 36
commissioner shall notify the clerk of the superior court for each 37
judicial district in which it is intended that such police officer shall act 38
or cease to act. Each such police officer shall, when on duty, wear in 39
plain view a shield bearing the words "railroad police", "steamboat 40
police", "express company police" or "special police", as the case may 41
be, and the name of the company, corporation or authority for which 42
the police officer is commissioned. 43
(c) The commissioner may, upon the application of any independent 44
institution of higher education, as defined in section 10a-173, owning, 45
leasing, maintaining, managing or controlling any property in this 46
state, commission, during the commissioner's pleasure, one or more 47
persons designated by such institution who, having been sworn, may 48
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officers, as the case may be, upon the premises used by such institution 50
in its activities, or upon any highway adjacent to such premises, for the 51
proper protection of the institution or property, and each police officer 52
so appointed may arrest and take before some proper authority any 53
person in the police officer's precinct for any offense committed in the 54
precinct. The commissioner may exercise such supervision and 55
direction over any police officer appointed as provided in this 56
subsection as the commissioner deems necessary. When any such 57
commission is issued or revoked, the commissioner shall notify the 58
clerk of the superior court for each judicial district in which it is 59
intended that such police officer shall act or cease to act. 60
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2019 29-19
Statement of Purpose:
To allow the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public
Protection to commission police officers at independent institutions of
higher education.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline,
except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is
not underlined.]