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Conn. Gen. Stat. § 7-276 (2025)

Powers of commissioners

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Such boards shall have all of the powers given by the general statutes to boards of police commissioners, shall have general management and supervision of the police department of such town and of the property and equipment used in connection therewith, shall make all needful regulations for the government thereof not contrary to law and may prescribe suitable penalties for the violation of any such regulation, including suspension or removal from office of any officer or member of such police department. Such board shall have the sole power of appointment, promotion and removal of the officers and members of such police department, under such regulations as it adopts for the purpose, and such appointees shall hold office during good behavior and until removed for cause upon written charges and after hearing. The members of such police department shall have all such authority with respect to the service of criminal process and the enforcement of the criminal laws as is vested by the general statutes in police officers and constables.

(1949 Rev., S. 659.)

Cited. 171 C. 553; 217 C. 73; 227 C. 363; 229 C. 703. Statutory policy committing selection, direction and dismissal of police officers to town is not inconsistent with grievance procedure in collective bargaining agreement covering discipline of police officers. 255 C. 800.

Cited. 41 CA 649.

Offices of police commissioner and chief of police are incompatible and, upon acceptance of one, other office is vacated. 21 CS 294. A de novo hearing on the merits does not contravene statute since only the power of appointment, promotion and removal of police officers is exclusively reserved to the commissioners. 31 CS 87. Cited. Id., 145.

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Cited in 14 cases, 1973–2013 · leading case: Genesky v. Town of East Lyme, 881 A.2d 114 (Conn. 2005).
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Genesky v. Town of East Lyme, 881 A.2d 114 (Conn. 2005). · cites it 8× “” General Statutes § 7-276. 15 Furthermore, “[t]he expenses, salaries and all costs of maintenance and equipment for such police department shall be paid by such town .”
Town of South Windsor v. South Windsor Police Union Local 1480, 770 A.2d 14 (Conn. 2001). · cites it 5× “" General Statutes § 7-276 provides: “Powers of commissioners.”
State v. Miller, 630 A.2d 1315 (Conn. 1993). · cites it 2× “" General Statutes § 7-276 provides in relevant part: “powers op commissioners.”
Town of South Windsor v. South Windsor Police Union Local 1480, 750 A.2d 465 (Conn. App. Ct. 2000). · cites it 5× “See General Statutes § 7-276. The town argues that the grievant’s interest in continued employment as a police officer must be weighed against the town’s interest in protecting public safety and public confidence in its police department.”
State v. Floyd, 584 A.2d 1157 (Conn. 1991). · cites it 2× “General Statutes § 7-276, however, provides that members of municipal police departments “shall have all such authority with respect to the service of criminal process and the enforcement of the criminal laws as is vested by the general statutes in police officers and…”
Anziano v. Bd. of Police Commissioners, 643 A.2d 865 (Conn. 1994). · cites it 7× “(1) violated his constitutional rights because the board’s combination of investigative and adjudicative functions, although authorized by § 7-278, created an unconstitutional risk of prejudice in the circumstances of his case; (2) improperly exercised its adjudicative function…”
Town of South Windsor v. South Windsor Police Union, Local 1480, 677 A.2d 464 (Conn. App. Ct. 1996). · cites it 2× “General Statutes § 7-276 provides in pertinent part that “[s]uch [board of police commissioners] shall have the sole power of appointment, promotion and removal of the officers .”
Bd. of Police Commissioners v. Stanley, 887 A.2d 394 (Conn. App. Ct. 2005). · cites it 2× “(2) such person subjects another person to sexual contact without such other person’s consent .”
Bd. of Police Commissioners v. White, 370 A.2d 1070 (Conn. 1976). “The plaintiffs argue that the discharge powers of the board of police commissioners are those granted by § 7-276 of the G-eneral Statutes which provides that a board of police commissioners “shall have the sole power of appointment, promotion and removal of the officers and…”
United States v. Alexander Rogers, 209 F.3d 139 (2d Cir. 2000). “Conn. Gen. Stat. § 7-276 . Einhorn also stated that the board approves the police department budget.”
Town of Stratford v. Am. Fed'n of State, 60 A.3d 288 (Conn. App. Ct. 2013). · cites it 4× “Employees Local 1159, Council 15, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, Superior Court, judicial district of Fairfield, Docket No.”
Hall v. Gallo, 934 A.2d 876 (Conn. Super. Ct. 2007). · cites it 2× “or the General Statutes that provide for a functioning policing agency run by a board of police commissioners (§ 7-274) having powers given to them to so run a police department by the General Statutes (General Statutes § 7-276). It therefore appears to the court that the state…”
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