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General Assembly Committee Bill No. 521
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 6629
Referred to Committee on PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Introduced by:
(PD)
AN ACT CONCERNING MI DDLETOWN AREA TRANSIT.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 7-273c of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage): 2
(a) The affairs of the district shall be managed by a board of 3
directors chosen from among the electors of the constituent 4
municipalities as follows: Each municipality shall have at least one 5
director. Municipalities with a population, according to the most 6
recent federal census, from twenty-five thousand to one hundred 7
thousand, inclusive, shall have two directors. Municipalities with a 8
population over one hundred thousand shall have four directors. The 9
directors shall be appointed for terms of four years, except that, in 10
municipalities having more than one director, one-half of those first 11
appointed shall serve for two years and one-half for four years, their 12
successors to serve for four years each. Any municipality in respect to 13
which a vacancy on the board occurs shall fill it for the unexpired 14
portion of the term. Section 9-167a shall apply to the appointment of 15
the directors representing each municipality. The directors shall be 16
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appointed by the elected chief executive of a city or borough, the board 17
of selectmen in the case of a municipality in which the legislative body 18
is a town meeting or by the board of selectmen of a town with the 19
approval of the legislative body. Notwithstanding the provisions of 20
this section, directors appointed from any municipality which is a 21
member, or becomes a member, of any transit district in existence on 22
May 18, 1972, shall be appointed by the legislative body of each 23
municipality or the board of selectmen in the case of a municipality in 24
which the legislative body is a town meeting. The population of each 25
municipality according to the most recent federal census shall be 26
divided by the number of directors representing such municipality. 27
Each member of the board of directors shall be entitled to cast that 28
number of voting units which is the multiple the population he 29
represents, rounded to the nearest one hundred, is of the smallest 30
population represented by a member, rounded to the nearest one 31
hundred. The directors shall meet at least four times annually or more 32
often on the call of the chairman and shall elect officers from among 33
their number. They may adopt bylaws and rules for the conduct of the 34
affairs of the district. They shall appoint and fix the salary of a district 35
manager, who shall be the chief executive officer of the district, and 36
such other employees as are required for district purposes. Each officer 37
or employee of such district who is the repository or custodian of any 38
funds of such district shall give such bond as is required by the board 39
of directors, with sufficient surety, conditioned on the faithful 40
discharge of his duties. The premium upon such bond shall be paid by 41
the district. 42
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, any director of 43
the Middletown Area Transit district may be removed prior to the 44
expiration of such director's term by the appointing authority specified 45
in this section for such director, which removal shall create a vacancy 46
to be filled pursuant to this section. 47
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This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage 7-273c
Statement of Purpose:
To permit the respective municipal appointing authorities for
Middletown Area Transit to remove directors prior to the expiration of
such directors' terms.
[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.]
Co-Sponsors: SEN. LESSER, 9th Dist.; SEN. DAUGHERTY ABRAMS, 13th
Dist.
REP. SERRA, 33rd Dist.; REP. PHIPPS, 100th Dist.
S.B. 521