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Chapter 146

• Sec. 9-164. Regular and special municipal elections.
• Sec. 9-164a. Transitional terms of office.
• Sec. 9-164b. Deferred terms.
• Sec. 9-164c. Change of municipal election date.
• Sec. 9-164d. Notification to secretary.
• Sec. 9-164e. Proposed action to be submitted to municipal attorney.
• Sec. 9-164f. Election of registrars unaffected.
• Secs. 9-165 to 9-167. Biennial town elections: Change to from annual elections, unexpired terms; term and method of rotation of board members.
• Sec. 9-167a. Minority representation.
• Sec. 9-168. Place of holding elections.
• Sec. 9-168a. Polling places for voting districts whose lines differ from the district lines as constituted in a municipal election year and for voting districts with less than one thousand five hundre
• Sec. 9-168b. Designation of polling places in adjacent voting districts.
• Sec. 9-168c. Accessibility of polling places to physically disabled voters.
• Sec. 9-168d. Accessibility of polling places to physically disabled voters. Certification. Waiver of requirements.
• Sec. 9-168e. Parking spaces at polling places for handicapped and infirm elderly persons.
• Sec. 9-169. Voting districts.
• Sec. 9-169a. Split voting districts.
• Sec. 9-169b. Effective date of changes in voting districts.
• Sec. 9-169c. At-large election of members of legislative bodies of certain towns.
• Sec. 9-169d. Voting districts crossing legislative district lines, permitted for municipal elections.
• Sec. 9-169e. Voting districts in special elections held to fill vacancy in district or municipal office.
• Sec. 9-169f. Reapportionment required for certain municipal legislative bodies.
• Sec. 9-169g. Town clerks required to submit voting district maps to Secretary of the State. Use of maps by General Assembly.
• Sec. 9-170. Eligibility to vote at town elections.
• Sec. 9-171. Eligibility to vote at city elections.
• Sec. 9-172. Eligibility to vote at state elections.
• Sec. 9-172a. Revised registry list defined for purposes of special elections.
• Sec. 9-172b. Supplementary list and registration deadline for special election or referendum.
• Sec. 9-173. Plurality required for election.
• Sec. 9-174. Hours of voting. Voting by electors in line at eight o'clock p.m.
• Sec. 9-175. Presidential and vice presidential electors. Write-in candidates and ballots.
• Sec. 9-176. Meeting of presidential electors.
• Sec. 9-177. Compensation of presidential electors.
• Sec. 9-178. Senator in Congress.
• Sec. 9-179. Representative in Congress.
• Sec. 9-180. Representative at large.
• Sec. 9-181. State officers.
• Sec. 9-182. Sheriffs.
• Sec. 9-183. Justices of the peace.
• Sec. 9-183a. Number of justices of the peace, exceptions.
• Sec. 9-183b. (Formerly Sec. 9-252). Nomination of justices of the peace by parties qualifying as major parties based on enrollment. Terms. Primaries.
• Sec. 9-183c. Nomination of justices of the peace by parties qualifying as major parties based solely on gubernatorial vote. Terms. Primaries.
• Sec. 9-184. Vacancy in office of justice of the peace when justice nominated by a major party.
• Secs. 9-184a and 9-184b.
• Sec. 9-184c. Appointment as justices of the peace of electors who are not members of major parties. Terms. Vacancies.
• Sec. 9-185. Municipal officers.
• Sec. 9-186. Electoral status of municipal officers and justices of the peace.
• Sec. 9-187. Terms.
• Sec. 9-187a. Date term to begin.
• Sec. 9-188. First selectman and selectmen. Election procedure. Dual candidacy prohibited. Minority representation; restricted voting. Tie vote.
• Sec. 9-189. Town clerks, treasurers and tax collectors.
• Sec. 9-189a. Four-year terms for town clerks, registrars and treasurers.
• Sec. 9-190. Registrars of voters.
• Sec. 9-190a. Election of registrars at state elections.
• Sec. 9-191. Election of registrars for each voting district.
• Sec. 9-192. Deputy registrar. Registrar vacancy. Assistant registrars. Special assistant registrars.
• Sec. 9-192a. Committee to establish programs and procedures for training, examining and certifying registrars, deputies and assistants. Training program for poll workers.
• Sec. 9-192b. Designation of registrar, deputy or an assistant to receive instruction.
• Sec. 9-193. Registrar's oath.
• Sec. 9-194. Compensation of registrars, deputies and assistants.
• Sec. 9-195. Compensation of registrars and town clerks for duties as to enrollment.
• Secs. 9-196 and 9-197. Assessors. Minority representation for assessors in towns holding annual elections.
• Sec. 9-198. Determination of number, method of election or appointment, term and compensation of assessors.
• Sec. 9-199. Assessors and boards of assessment appeals. Alternate members.
• Sec. 9-200. Constables.
• Sec. 9-201. Election of five-member boards of police commissioners.
• Sec. 9-202. Board of finance.
• Sec. 9-203. Number and term of members of boards of education.
• Sec. 9-204. Minority representation on board of education.
• Sec. 9-204a. Nomination and voting for full number of board members to be elected authorized.
• Sec. 9-204b. Optional alternative system for towns with four-year terms for board of education.
• Sec. 9-205. Election of board of education when number of members revised.
• Sec. 9-206. Election of board of education in towns adopting biennial elections. Alternate rotation of terms and length of terms permitted.
• Sec. 9-206a. Optional number of members and terms of boards of education.
• Sec. 9-207. Library directors.
• Sec. 9-208. Election of library directors on change from annual to biennial election.
• Sec. 9-209. Certificate filed with secretary when planning or zoning members to be elected.
• Sec. 9-210. Incompatible town offices.
• Sec. 9-211. United States senator; vacancy.
• Sec. 9-212. Representative in Congress.
• Sec. 9-213. Secretary, Treasurer, Comptroller and Attorney General.
• Sec. 9-214. State representative.
• Sec. 9-215. Member or member-elect of the General Assembly.
• Sec. 9-216. Nomination by petition.
• Sec. 9-217. List of candidates.
• Sec. 9-218. Judge of probate.
• Sec. 9-219. Justice of the peace.
• Sec. 9-220. Town office.
• Sec. 9-221. Municipal office vacancy election provisions inapplicable in certain circumstances.
• Sec. 9-222. Filling of vacancy in office of first selectman or selectman. Petition for special election.
• Sec. 9-223. Notice of vacancy in municipal office.
• Sec. 9-224. Special election on same day as regular election.
• Sec. 9-224a. No election if only one candidate in special election to fill vacancy.
• Sec. 9-224b. Registration as write-in candidate in special election to fill vacancy.
• Sec. 9-225. State elections.
• Sec. 9-226. Municipal elections.
• Sec. 9-227. Record of warning of municipal election.
• Sec. 9-228. Municipal elections.
• Sec. 9-229. Appointment, instruction and certification of moderators.
• Sec. 9-229a. Election or primary day polling place observers. Appointment. Duties. Training program. Regulations. Additional election officials. Code of ethics for polling place observers.
• Sec. 9-230. Authority of registrars and moderators to prevent or suppress disorder.
• Sec. 9-231. Oath of election officials.
• Sec. 9-232. Challengers. Challenges not to be indiscriminate and under oath.
• Sec. 9-232a. Remedy for denial of voting rights.
• Sec. 9-232b. Penalty for false statement.
• Sec. 9-232c. Moderator to keep memorandum of challenge; form.
• Sec. 9-232d. Request for challenged ballot.
• Sec. 9-232e. Casting of challenged ballot, procedure.
• Sec. 9-232f. Preservation and counting of challenged ballots.
• Sec. 9-232g.
• Sec. 9-232h.
• Sec. 9-232i. Definition.
• Sec. 9-232j. Provisional ballot packets for elections for federal office.
• Sec. 9-232k. Secretary of the State to prescribe and provide provisional ballots.
• Sec. 9-232l. Applications for provisional ballots.
• Sec. 9-232m. Casting of provisional ballots.
• Sec. 9-232n. Determination of eligibility of provisional ballot applicants to vote. Report. Corrected return.
• Sec. 9-232o. Counting of provisional ballots.
• Sec. 9-233. Voting tabulator tenders.
• Sec. 9-234. Presence of registrars. Checkers.
• Sec. 9-235. Unofficial checkers.
• Sec. 9-235a. Temporary absence of election officials.
• Sec. 9-235b. Runners.
• Sec. 9-235c. Voluntary service by election, primary or referendum officials.
• Sec. 9-235d. Citizens sixteen or seventeen years of age authorized to serve as election or primary officials. Requirements.
• Sec. 9-236. Activities prohibited in and near polling place; distance markers; entry restricted; exceptions.
• Sec. 9-236a. Spare voting machine or ballot box for educational use of students.
• Sec. 9-236b. Voter's Bill of Rights. Sample ballots. Voters in line when polls scheduled to close permitted to vote. Voting instructions and information.
• Sec. 9-237. Display of national and state flags.
• Sec. 9-237a. Telephones at polling places.