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General Assembly Substitute Bill No. 266
January Session, 2019
AN ACT CONCERNING PO LLING PLACES AT INSTITUTIONS OF
HIGHER EDUCATION.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 9-169 of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2019): 2
(a) The legislative body of any town, consolidated town and city or 3
consolidated town and borough may divide and, from time to time, 4
redivide such municipality into voting districts. The registrars of 5
voters of any municipality taking such action shall provide a suitable 6
polling place in each district but, if the registrars fail to agree as to the 7
location of any polling place or places, the legislative body shall 8
determine the location thereof. Polling places to be used in an election 9
shall be determined at least thirty-one days before such election, and 10
such polling places shall not be changed within said period of thirty-11
one days except that, if the municipal clerk and registrars of voters of a 12
municipality unanimously find that any such polling place within such 13
municipality has been rendered unusable within such period, they 14
shall forthwith designate another polling place to be used in place of 15
the one so rendered unusable and shall give adequate notice that such 16
polling place has been so changed. The registrars of voters shall keep 17
separate lists of the electors residing in each district and shall appoint 18
for each district a moderator in accordance with the provisions of 19 Substitute Bill No. 266
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section 9-229 and such other election officials as are required by law, 20
and shall designate one of the moderators so appointed or any other 21
elector of such town to be the head moderator for the purpose of 22
declaring the results of elections in the whole municipality. The 23
registrars may also designate a deputy head moderator to assist the 24
head moderator in the performance of his duties provided the deputy 25
head moderator and the head moderator shall not be enrolled in the 26
same major party, as defined in subdivision (5) of section 9-372. The 27
selectmen, town clerk, registrars of voters and all other officers of the 28
municipality shall perform the duties required of them by law with 29
respect to elections in each voting district established in accordance 30
with this section. Voting district lines shall not be drawn by a 31
municipality so as to conflict with the lines of congressional districts, 32
senate districts or assembly districts as established by law, except (1) as 33
provided in section 9-169d, and (2) that as to municipal elections, any 34
part of a split voting district containing less than two hundred electors 35
may be combined with another voting district adjacent thereto from 36
which all and the same officers are elected at such municipal election. 37
Any change in the boundaries of voting districts made within ninety 38
days prior to any election or primary shall not apply with respect to 39
such election or primary. 40
(b) The legislative body of any town, consolidated town and city or 41
consolidated town and borough within which an institution of higher 42
education is located may divide such municipality so as to provide at 43
each election a separate voting district containing such institution. The 44
registrars of voters of any municipality taking such action shall 45
provide a suitable polling place at, or not more than five hundred feet 46
from, such institution but, if the registrars fail to agree as to the 47
location of such polling place, the legislative body shall determine the 48
location thereof. 49
(c) The provisions of this section shall prevail over any contrary 50
provision of any charter or special act. 51 Substitute Bill No. 266
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This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2019 9-169
GAE Joint Favorable Subst.