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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 698
January Session, 2021
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Referred to Committee on PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Introduced by:
(PD)
AN ACT CONCERNING TH E ONLINE PUBLICATION OF LEGAL
NOTICES BY MUNICIPALITIES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 1-2 of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2021): 2
Each provision of the general statutes, the special acts or the charter 3
of any town, city or borough which requires the insertion of an 4
advertisement of a legal notice in a daily newspaper shall be construed 5
to permit such advertisement to be inserted in a weekly newspaper or, 6
if such provision applies to a town, city or borough, posted on the 7
Internet web site of the town, city or borough; but this section shall not 8
be construed to reduce or otherwise affect the time required by law for 9
giving such notice. Whenever notice of any action or other proceeding 10
is required to be given by publication in a newspaper, either by statute 11
or order of court, the newspaper selected for that purpose, unless 12
otherwise expressly prescribed, shall be one having a substantial 13
circulation in the town in which at least one of the parties, for whose 14
benefit such notice is given, resides. 15 Raised Bill No. 698
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This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2021 1-2
Statement of Purpose:
To permit the posting of advertisements of legal notices on municipal
Internet web sites.
[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.]