Sec. 9-169g. Town clerks required to submit voting district maps to Secretary of the State. Use of maps by General Assembly.
Sec. 9-169g. Town clerks required to submit voting district maps to Secretary
of the State. Use of maps by General Assembly. (a) The town clerk of any municipality
(1) which is divided between two or more assembly districts, two or more senatorial
districts or two or more congressional districts or (2) which is not divided between any
such districts but is divided into two or more voting districts for General Assembly or
congressional elections, shall submit to the Secretary of the State a street map of the
municipality which indicates the boundary lines of the voting districts established by
the municipality in accordance with sections 9-169, 9-169a and 9-169d. The town clerk
shall submit such map to the secretary (A) not later than July 30, 1997, if any such
division is in effect on July 1, 1997, or, if no such division is in effect on July 1, 1997,
not later than thirty days after any such division first takes effect, and (B) not later than
thirty days after any change in any such division takes effect.
(b) The Secretary of the State shall make such maps available to the General Assembly, for use by the General Assembly in carrying out its responsibilities under (1) Article
XXVI of the Amendments to the Constitution of Connecticut, or any subsequent corresponding state constitutional provision, with regard to the redistricting of assembly, senatorial and congressional districts, and (2) Public Law 94-171, concerning the establishment of a plan identifying the geographic areas for which specific tabulations of
population are desired in the decennial census of the United States.
(P.A. 97-116, S. 1, 2.)
History: P.A. 97-116 effective July 1, 1997.