Connecticut General Statutes
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-197 (2025)
Offices in state service to be classified; exceptions
✓ laws through the 2024 session: the source has not yet published 2025 Public Acts (checked Sept. 2026)
Find cases:
SyfertCases citing this section
CT-CGAcga.ct.gov (official)
JustiaTitle on Justia
CornellLII Search
CasesGoogle Scholar
Any office or position in the state service, whether full-time or part-time, shall be a position in the classified service, except as hereinafter set forth in this chapter or otherwise specified by statute.
(1967, P.A. 657, S. 6.)
All services rendered by the state are not subject to the state personnel act. 166 C. 757. Cited. 176 C. 1.
| (Return to Chapter Table of Contents) |
(Return to List of Chapters) |
(Return to List of Titles) |
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases, 1974–2019 · leading case: Chotkowski v. Connecticut Pers. Appeal Bd., 404 A.2d 868 (Conn. 1978).
Chotkowski v. Connecticut Pers. Appeal Bd., 404 A.2d 868 (Conn. 1978). “” We examined the predecessors of General Statutes §§ 5-197 and 5-198 and held (p.”
Connecticut State Employees Ass'n v. Bd. of Trs., 345 A.2d 36 (Conn. 1974). “The plaintiffs place great reliance on § 5-197 of the General Statutes, which states that “[a]ny office or position in the state service, whether full-time or part-time, shall be a position in the classified service, except as hereinafter set forth in this chapter or otherwise…”
Austin v. Bridgeport, No. 3:17-cv-01306 (D. Conn. Sept. 23, 2019). “In determining that the re-classification was appropriate, and that the plaintiff must be deemed to have been continuously employed in the classified service since his hiring, the court construed the statutory language as follows: Section 5-197 of the General Statutes commands…”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the
Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and
treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.