Bills
To browse a list of all bills in a session, on the Connecticut General Assembly web site’s “Bill Information Inquiry” form, (1) select the “Session Year” on a drop-down list, then (2) at the bottom of the page, select “Find all Bills in the Range:” and (3) enter low and high numbers for either senate bills (use numbers “1” and “4999”) or house bills (use numbers “5001” and “9999”), then (4) click the “Search” button.
Public and Special Acts (Conn. Acts)
Public and special acts cannot be browsed except by using an index (linked under Additional Resources below). The text-search function linked here covers the entire legislative web site, where the appropriate database must be selected.
Court Rules • Rules of Procedure
See also the Connecticut Practice Book for rules of professional conduct, superior court rules of procedure, rules of appellate procedure, and an appendix of forms.
The U.S. District Court’s rules are in WordPerfect files.
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Public Health Code 2000 Compilation of the regulations that pertain specifically to the Department of Public Health, along with some related materials.
Ordinances are local laws, commonly organized into codes, that have been enacted by municipalities — cities, towns, etc. — and counties. Charters are organic laws (similar in function to a constitution) of those local government entities for which “home rule” is authorized by state law. For local laws not found through the links given here, try the county web sites and municipality web sites at “State and Local Government on the Net” by Piper Resources, or a publisher’s web site:
Charters
Note that a charter could be included in a collection of ordinances (see below) instead of being separately accessible.
County Ordinances
Municipal Ordinances
Click on the button keyed to the name of the municipality. NOTE: On some web sites, selecting the state is necessary for access to the ordinances link.
Official Legal Publications [Connecticut Commission on Official Legal Publications] — Publications on various law-related topics, mostly for non-lawyers but also including the Connecticut Practice Book, which contains the rules of professional conduct, the code of judicial conduct, rules for the superior court, the rules of appellate procedure, and an appendix of forms.
See also links to state court web sites, maintained by the National Center for State Courts. Additionally, the Ballotpedia.org web site presents information about courts and judges in the state, covering both state courts and federal courts, in a Wikipedia-style format.
Business Entity Forms [Paracorp, Inc. (Cal.)] — Convenient interface to view and print in-blank official state forms (in PDF files) for filing by business entities. A JavaScript-enabled browser is required.
Bankruptcy Law and Procedures for Connecticut Residents [Calicchia & Kinast LLP (Ohio)] — This web site, presented by a Cleveland bankruptcy law firm, covers basic information about the bankruptcy process, describes debt consolidation and credit counseling as alternatives to bankruptcy, lists the property that an individual is allowed to keep (with citations to governing provisions of Connecticut law), and gives information about the bankruptcy courts and how to contact bankruptcy attorneys in Connecticut.
WomensLaw.org — Sources of Legal Help [WomensLaw.org (N.Y.)] — Sources of legal help (not limited to legal help for women) include statewide domestic-violence resources, local domestic-violence resources listed by city or town, free or low-cost legal services, and lawyer referral services.
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