Sec. 4-173. Publication of compilation of regulations and supplements.
Sec. 4-173. Publication of compilation of regulations and supplements. (a) The
Commission on Official Legal Publications shall publish and distribute a compilation
of all effective regulations adopted by all state agencies subsequent to October 27, 1970,
except regulations adopted pursuant to subsection (f) of section 4-168. Such publication
may be a supplement to or revision of the most current compilation, and shall be published at least semiannually. The Commission on Official Legal Publications may omit
from such compilation (1) any regulation that is incorporated by reference into a Connecticut regulation and published by or otherwise available in printed form from a federal
agency, a government agency of another state or a commercial publishing company,
(2) any regulation that is too expensive to publish, or (3) any regulation the publication
of which would be unduly cumbersome. If the commission omits a regulation from the
compilation, it shall publish in the compilation a notice identifying the omitted regulation, stating the general subject matter of the regulation and stating an address, telephone
number and any other information needed to obtain a copy of the regulation. Such
address and telephone number shall be kept current in each semiannual publication of
the compilation. The commission shall publish any regulation that has been omitted
from publication under subdivision (2) of this subsection as soon as the commission
has sufficient funds.
(b) The Commission on Official Legal Publications shall in addition cause to be
published in the Connecticut Law Journal at least monthly the text of all regulations
received by the commission from the office of the Secretary of the State pursuant to
section 4-172 during the preceding month. The commission may omit from the Connecticut Law Journal (1) any regulation submitted in accordance with subsection (g) of
section 4-168, for the purposes of renumbering sections only, if a correlated table of the
former and new section numbers is published in lieu of the full text, (2) any regulation
that is incorporated by reference into a Connecticut regulation and published by or
otherwise available in printed form from a federal agency, a government agency of
another state or a commercial publishing company, and (3) any regulation the publication
of which would be too expensive or unduly cumbersome. If the commission omits a
regulation from publication in the Connecticut Law Journal under subdivision (2) or
(3) of this subsection, the commission shall publish in the Connecticut Law Journal a
notice identifying the omitted regulation, stating the general subject matter of the regulation and stating an address, telephone number and any other information needed to
obtain a copy of the regulation.
(c) Each agency which adopts a regulation shall make the regulation available for
inspection and copying at its main office.
(d) Any publication made pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall
be made available upon request to agencies and officials of this state free of charge, and
to other persons at prices fixed by the Commission on Official Legal Publications, in
accordance with section 51-216b.
(e) The compilation of regulations published under subsection (a) of this section
and all Connecticut regulations omitted from the compilation under subsection (a) shall
be maintained in the reference collection of each law library described in section 11-19a.
(1971, P.A. 854, S. 8; P.A. 76-297, S. 4; P.A. 80-471, S. 6; P.A. 83-277, S. 2, 3; P.A. 88-133; P.A. 05-288, S. 18.)
History: P.A. 76-297 deleted previous Subsec. (a) requiring publication of regulations and index by October 27, 1970,
and relettered remaining Subsecs. accordingly, deleting provision for periodic publication of revised index by commission
on official legal publications in current Subsec. (a) (formerly Subsec. (b)); P.A. 80-471 deleted reference to regulations
adopted pursuant to Sec. 4-168(b) in Subsec. (b); P.A. 83-277 amended Subsec. (b) by allowing the publication of a
correlated table of former and new section numbers for those regulations submitted with technical changes; P.A. 88-133
replaced exceptions to publication of regulations in Subsec. (c) with enumerated exceptions in Subsecs. (a) and (b), added
a requirement in Subsecs. (a) and (b) for publication of notice of omitted regulations, inserted new Subsec. (c) requiring
agencies to make regulations available for inspection and copying, added new Subsec. (e) requiring all regulations to be
maintained in law libraries and made technical changes; P.A. 05-288 made technical changes in Subsecs. (a) and (b),
effective July 13, 2005.
Cited. 171 C. 691. Cited. 172 C. 263. Cited. 173 C. 462. Cited. 186 C. 153. Cited. 191 C. 173. Cited. 239 C. 32.
Cited. 1 CA 1. Cited. 25 CA 555.