Bill Text: CT SB00215 | 2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning Special Election Timing For Probate Judge Vacancies.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-23 - Public Hearing 02/27 [SB00215 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2012-SB00215-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 215
February Session, 2012		LCO No. 1258
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Referred to Committee on Government Administration and Elections
Introduced by:
(GAE)

AN ACT CONCERNING SPECIAL ELECTION TIMING FOR PROBATE JUDGE VACANCIES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Section 9-218 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):

(a) When there is no election of judge of probate in any district by reason of two or more having an equal and the highest number of votes, or when a new probate district is created and no provision made for the election of a judge [thereof] for such district, or whenever it is shown to the Governor that a vacancy is about to exist in said office by reason of the resignation of the incumbent to take effect at a future time or by reason of constitutional limitation, or when there is a vacancy in said office, the Governor shall, not later than ten days after any such occurrence that results in a vacancy or impending vacancy in any district, issue writs of election directed to the town clerk or clerks or assistant town clerk or clerks within such district, ordering an election to be held on [a day named therein, other than a Saturday or Sunday,] the forty-sixth day after the issuance of such writs to fill such vacancy or impending vacancy, and transmit the same to a state marshal. No such election shall be held on a Saturday or Sunday. If such a vacancy occurs between the one hundred twenty-fifth day and the forty-ninth day before the day of a regular state or municipal election in November of any year, the Governor shall so issue such writs on the forty-sixth day before the day of such regular election, ordering an election to be held on the day of such regular election. If such a vacancy occurs after the forty-ninth day before the day of a regular state election but before the Wednesday following the first Monday of January of the next succeeding year, the Governor shall not issue such writs and no election shall be held under this section. Such state marshal shall forthwith transmit [them] such writs to such clerk or clerks, who, on receiving the same, shall warn elections to be held on the day appointed in such writs, in the same manner as state elections are warned.

(b) Such elections pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall be organized and conducted, and the vote shall be declared and returns made, certified, directed, deposited and transmitted, in the same manner as at a state election. The Secretary of the State, Treasurer and Comptroller shall, [within] not later than thirty days after any such election, count and declare the votes so returned, and notice shall be given to the person declared elected, in the same manner as is provided in the election of judges of probate at state elections. The Secretary of the State shall enter the returns in tabular form in books kept by [him] the Secretary for that purpose and present a copy of the same, with the name of, and the total number of votes received by, each of the candidates for said office, to the Governor [within] not later than ten days [thereafter] after the Secretary enters the returns.

(c) Any judge of probate who resigns his or her position, shall resign by sending written notification to the Probate Court Administrator.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	from passage	9-218

Statement of Purpose:

To provide that a special election to fill a vacancy for probate judge be conducted in the same timeline as that used for a special election to fill a vacancy for a member of the General Assembly and to provide that any probate judge who resigns, does so by notifying the Probate Court Administrator, in writing.

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