HB 5127 — AN ACT CONCERNING THE ERECTION OF FENCES AND THE PLANTING OF HEDGES AND TREES THAT OBSTRUCT WATER VIEWS.

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35185127 1 of 14 Committee Bill No.5127 (B) Assess, levy and collect taxes for general or special purposes on all property, subjects or objects which may be lawfully taxed, and regulate the mode of assessment and collection of taxes and assessments not otherwise provided for, including establishment of a procedure for the withholding of approval of building application when taxes or water or sewer rates, charges or assessments imposed by the municipality are delinquent for the property for which an application was made;

(H) Provide for the bonding of municipal officials or employees by requiring the furnishing of such bond, conditioned upon honesty or LCO 3518 {\\PRDFS1\HCOUSERS\BARRYJN\WS\2019HB-05122 of 13 R02-HB.docx } Committee Bill No.

35185127 2 of 14 Committee Bill No.5127 requiring the furnishing of such bond, conditioned upon honesty or faithful performance of duty and determine the amount, form, and sufficiency of the sureties thereof;

(4) (A) Provide for police protection, regulate and prescribe the LCO 3518 {\\PRDFS1\HCOUSERS\BARRYJN\WS\2019HB-051273 of 13 R02-HB.docx } Committee Bill No.

35185127 3 of 14 Committee Bill No.5127 (4) (A) Provide for police protection, regulate and prescribe the duties of the persons providing police protection with respect to criminal matters within the limits of the municipality and maintain and regulate a suitable place of detention within the limits of the municipality for the safekeeping of all persons arrested and awaiting trial and do all other things necessary or desirable for the policing of the municipality;

(5) (A) Provide for and establish pension systems for the officers LCO 3518 {\\PRDFS1\HCOUSERS\BARRYJN\WS\2019HB-05124 of 13 R02-HB.docx } Committee Bill No.

35185127 4 of 14 Committee Bill No.5127 (5) (A) Provide for and establish pension systems for the officers and employees of the municipality and for the active members of any volunteer fire department or any volunteer ambulance association of the municipality, and establish a system of qualification for the tenure in office of such officers and employees, provided the rights or benefits granted to any individual under any municipal retirement or pension system shall not be diminished or eliminated;

(6) (A) (i) Establish, lay out, construct, reconstruct, alter, maintain, repair, control and operate cemeteries, public burial grounds, hospitals, clinics, institutions for children and aged, infirm and chronically ill persons, bus terminals and airports and their accessories, docks, wharves, school houses, libraries,parks,libraries, parks, playgrounds, playfields, fieldhouses, baths, bathhouses, swimming pools, gymnasiums, comfort stations, recreation places, public beaches, beach facilities, public gardens, markets, garbage and refuse disposal facilities, parking lots and other off-street parking facilities, and any and all buildings or facilities necessary or convenient for carrying on the government of the municipality;

(iii) Enter into or upon any land for the purpose of making necessary surveys or mapping in connection with any public LCO 3518 {\\PRDFS1\HCOUSERS\BARRYJN\WS\2019HB-05125 of 13 R02-HB.docx } Committee Bill No.

35185127 5 of 14 Committee Bill No.5127 (iii) Enter into or upon any land for the purpose of making necessary surveys or mapping in connection with any public improvement, and take by eminent domain any lands, rights, easements, privileges, franchises or structures which are necessary for the purpose of establishing, constructing or maintaining any public work, or for any municipal purpose, in the manner prescribed by the general statutes;

(C) (i) Lay out, construct, reconstruct, alter, maintain, repair, control, operate, and assign numbers to streets, alleys, highways, boulevards, LCO 3518 {\\PRDFS1\HCOUSERS\BARRYJN\WS\2019HB-051276 of 13 R02-HB.docx } Committee Bill No.

35185127 6 of 14 Committee Bill No.5127 (C) (i) Lay out, construct, reconstruct, alter, maintain, repair, control, operate, and assign numbers to streets, alleys, highways, boulevards, bridges, underpasses, sidewalks, curbs, gutters, public walks and parkways;

(iv) Regulate and provide for the licensing of parked trailers when located off the public highways, and trailer parks or mobile LCO 3518 {\\PRDFS1\HCOUSERS\BARRYJN\WS\2019HB-05127 of 13 R02-HB.docx } Committee Bill No.

35185127 7 of 14 Committee Bill No.5127 (iv) Regulate and provide for the licensing of parked trailers when located off the public highways, and trailer parks or mobile manufactured home parks, except as otherwise provided by special act and except where there exists a local zoning commission so empowered;

(iii) Require that conspicuous signage be posted in any area where a motor vehicle may be subject to towing or to the use of a wheel-locking device that renders such motor vehicle immovable, and that such signage indicate where the motor vehicle will be stored, how the LCOvehicle No.may be redeemed and any costs or fees that may be charged;

LCO 3518 8{\\PRDFS1\HCOUSERS\BARRYJN\WS\2019HB-05128 of 1413 R02-HB.docx } Committee Bill No.5127No. vehicle may be redeemed and any costs or fees that may be charged;

5127 (C) Regulate and prohibit the construction or use, and require the removal of sinks, cesspools, drains, sewers, privies, barns, outhouses and poultry pens and houses;

(ii) Regulate and prohibit the carrying on within the municipality of any trade, manufacture, business or profession which is, or may be, so LCO 3518 {\\PRDFS1\HCOUSERS\BARRYJN\WS\2019HB-051279 of 13 R02-HB.docx } Committee Bill No.

35185127 9 of 14 Committee Bill No.5127 (ii) Regulate and prohibit the carrying on within the municipality of any trade, manufacture, business or profession which is, or may be, so carried on as to become prejudicial to public health, conducive to fraud and cheating, or dangerous to, or constituting an unreasonable annoyance to, those living or owning property in the vicinity;

(xii) Regulate the use of streets, sidewalks, highways, public places LCOand No.grounds for public and private purposes;

LCO 3518 10{\\PRDFS1\HCOUSERS\BARRYJN\WS\2019HB-0512710 of 1413 R02-HB.docx } Committee Bill No.5127No. and grounds for public and private purposes;

5127 (xiii) Make and enforce police, sanitary or other similar regulations and protect or promote the peace, safety, good government and welfare of the municipality and its inhabitants;

prescribe civil penalties for the violation of such regulations of not less than ten or more than one hundred dollars for each day that a violation continues and, if such civil penalties are prescribed, such LCOmunicipality No.shall adopt a citation hearing procedure in accordance with section 7-152c;

LCO 3518 11{\\PRDFS1\HCOUSERS\BARRYJN\WS\2019HB-05111 of 1413 R02-HB.docx } Committee Bill No.5127No. municipality shall adopt a citation hearing procedure in accordance with section 7-152c;

5127 (xvi) Regulate, on any property owned by the municipality, any activity deemed to be deleterious to public health, including the lighting or carrying of a lighted cigarette, cigar, pipe or similar device;

(10) (A) Make all lawful regulations and ordinances in furtherance of any general powers as enumerated in this section, and prescribe LCOpenalties No.for the violation of the same not to exceed two hundred fifty dollars, unless otherwise specifically provided by the general statutes.

Such regulations and ordinances may be enforced by citations issued LCO 3518 12{\\PRDFS1\HCOUSERS\BARRYJN\WS\2019HB-0512712 of 1413 R02-HB.docx } Committee Bill No.

5127 penaltiesby designated municipal officers or employees, provided the regulations and ordinances have been designated specifically by the municipality for enforcement by citation in the violationsame manner in which they were adopted and the designated municipal officers or employees issue a written warning providing notice of the samespecific notviolation tobefore exceedissuing twothe hundredcitation, fiftyexcept dollars,that unlessno otherwisesuch specificallywritten providedwarning byshall be required for violations of a municipal ordinance regulating the generaloperation statutes.or use of a dirt bike, all-terrain vehicle or mini-motorcycle;

Such regulations and ordinances may be enforced by citations issued by designated municipal officers or employees, provided the regulations and ordinances have been designated specifically by the municipality for enforcement by citation in the same manner in which they were adopted and the designated municipal officers or employees issue a written warning providing notice of the specific violation before issuing the citation, except that no such written warning shall be required for violations of a municipal ordinance regulating the operation or use of a dirt bike, all-terrain vehicle or mini-motorcycle;

Section 1 January 1, 2020 7-148(c) StatementPD Joint Favorable LCO 3518 {\\PRDFS1\HCOUSERS\BARRYJN\WS\2019HB-0512713 of Purpose:13 R02-HB.docx }

To permit municipalities to regulate the erection of fences and planting of hedges and trees that obstruct a neighbor's water views.

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5127 [Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets.

Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.] Co-Sponsors:

REP.

MCCARTY, 38th Dist.

H.B.

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