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Conn. Gen. Stat. § 4-164a (2026)

Office of the Claims Commissioner exempt from certain provisions of the Uniform Administrative Procedure Act

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The Office of the Claims Commissioner is exempt from the provisions of sections 4-176e to 4-183, inclusive.

(P.A. 82-167, S. 1, 7; P.A. 88-317, S. 47, 107; P.A. 16-127, S. 22.)

History: P.A. 88-317 amended reference to Secs. 4-177 to 4-183 to include new sections added to Ch. 54, effective July 1, 1989, and applicable to all agency proceedings commencing on or after that date; P.A. 16-127 substituted “Office of the Claims Commissioner” for “Claims Commissioner”, effective June 9, 2016.

Cited. 186 C. 300. P.A. 82-167, Sec. 1 of which became this section, should be read as a clarification of Superior Court's ongoing lack of jurisdiction to hear appeals from Claims Commissioner. 195 C. 534. Cited. 204 C. 259; 212 C. 415.

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Cited in 4 cases, 1985–2012 · leading case: Circle Lanes of Fairfield, Inc. v. Fay, 489 A.2d 363 (Conn. 1985).
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Circle Lanes of Fairfield, Inc. v. Fay, 489 A.2d 363 (Conn. 1985). · cites it 6× “82-167, § 1, codified as General Statutes § 4-164a, 6 had deprived the trial court of its jurisdiction.”
Krozser v. City of New Haven, 562 A.2d 1080 (Conn. 1989). · cites it 2× “, we concluded that the Superior Court lacked jurisdiction to hear appeals from the claims commissioner because General Statutes § 4-164a expressly exempted the claims commissioner from the operation of General Statutes § 4-183, the provision of the Uniform Administrative…”
MacLean v. Off. of the Dir. of Reg., 5 Am. Tribal Law 273 (2004). “Decisions regarding the sovereign immunity of the State of Connecticut are not to be resolved through the Uniform Administrative Procedure Act.”
State v. Charlotte Hungerford Hosp., 36 A.3d 252 (Conn. App. Ct. 2012). · cites it 4× “General Statutes § 4-164a 12 expressly exempts the claims commissioner from *487 certain provisions of the Uniform Administrative Procedure Act, including § 4-183.”
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