LCO No. 6024 1 of 2 General Assembly Committee Bill No. 522 January Session, 2019 LCO No. 6024 Referred to Committee on PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT Introduced by: (PD) AN ACT CONCERNING AL TERNATE MEMBERS OF MUNICIPAL PLANNING COMMISSIONS . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: Section 1. Section 8-19a of the general statutes is repealed and the 1 following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2019): 2 Any municipality, in addition to such powers as it has under the 3 provisions of the general statutes or any special act, shall have the 4 power to provide by ordinance for the appointment or election of 5 alternate members to its planning commission. Such alternate 6 members shall be electors, and, when seated as herein provided, have 7 all the powers and duties set forth in the general statutes or any special 8 act relating to such municipality for such commission and its members. 9 Such [alternate members shall be electors and shall not be members of 10 the zoning commission or zoning board of appeals. Such alternates] 11 alternate members may attend all meetings and executive sessions of 12 said commission. Such ordinance shall provide for the manner of 13 designating alternates to act. 14 Committee Bill No. 522 LCO No. 6024 2 of 2 This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: Section 1 October 1, 2019 8-19a Statement of Purpose: To permit members of municipal zoning commissions and municipal zoning boards of appeals to serve as alternate members of municipal planning commissions. [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. OSTEN, 19th Dist. S.B. 522