Sec. 12-130. Collectors; rate bills and warrants. Statements of state aid. (a)
When any community, authorized to raise money by taxation, lays a tax, it shall appoint a
collector thereof; and the selectmen of towns, and the committees of other communities,
except as otherwise specially provided by law, shall make out and sign rate bills containing the proportion which each individual is to pay according to the assessment list;
and any judge of the Superior Court or any justice of the peace, on their application or
that of their successors in office, shall issue a warrant for the collection of any sums
due on such rate bills. Each collector shall mail or hand to each individual from whom
taxes are due a bill for the amount of taxes for which such individual is liable and shall
attach thereto a statement of the year and amount of all back taxes for which such
individual is liable. In addition, the collector shall include with such bill, using one of
the following methods (1) attachment, (2) enclosure, or (3) printed matter upon the face
of the bill, a statement of state aid to municipalities which shall be in the following form:
The (fiscal year) budget for the (city or town) estimates that .... Dollars will be received
from the state of Connecticut for various state financed programs. Without this assistance
your (fiscal year) property tax would be (herein insert the amount computed in accordance with subsection (b) of this section) mills.
Failure to send out any such bill or statement shall not invalidate the tax. For purposes
of this subsection, "mail" includes to send by electronic mail, provided an individual
from whom taxes are due consents in writing to receive a bill and statement electronically. Prior to sending any such bill or statement by electronic mail, a community shall
provide the public with the appropriate electronic mail address of the community on
the community's Internet web site and shall establish procedures to ensure that any
individual who consents to receive a bill or statement electronically (1) receives such
bill or statement, and (2) is provided the proper return electronic mail address of the
community sending the bill or statement.
(b) The mill rate to be inserted in the statement of state aid to municipalities required
by subsection (a) shall be computed on the total estimated revenues required to fund
the estimated expenditures of the municipality exclusive of assistance received or anticipated from the state.
(1949 Rev., S. 1813; 1961, P.A. 517, S. 10; 1963, P.A. 471, S. 1; P.A. 74-183, S. 190, 291; P.A. 76-436, S. 166, 681;
P.A. 77-452, S. 3, 72; P.A. 78-249, S. 2, 4; P.A. 85-467, S. 1, 2; P.A. 11-185, S. 1.)
History: 1961 act authorized circuit court judges rather than justices of the peace to issue warrants; 1963 act revested
authority to issue warrants in justices of the peace; P.A. 74-183 substituted court of common pleas for circuit court; P.A.
76-436 substituted superior court for court of common pleas and deleted reference to justices of the peace, effective July
1, 1978; P.A. 77-452 reinstated reference to justices of the peace; P.A. 78-249 added requirement that tax bill include
statement of state aid to municipalities and included form of statement and added Subsec. (b) re computation of mill rate
which would exist without state aid; P.A. 85-467 amended the requirement in Subsec. (a), concerning the statement of
state aid to be attached to each property tax bill, so that such statement may be attached to, enclosed with or printed upon
the face of the bill; P.A. 11-185 amended Subsec. (a) by adding provisions re sending rate bills by electronic mail, effective
October 1, 2011, and applicable to assessment years commencing on or after that date.
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Sec. 12-146c. Payments by residents in the armed forces called to active service
for military action in Iraq or Afghanistan. Notwithstanding the provisions of section
12-146, a municipality shall not charge or collect interest for a period of one year on
any property tax or any installment or part thereof that is payable by any resident of the
state who is a member of the armed forces of the United States or of any state or of any
reserve component thereof who has been called to active service in the armed forces of
the United States for military operations that are authorized by the President of the
United States that entail military action in Iraq or Afghanistan and who is serving outside
the United States on the final day that payment of such property tax or installment or
part thereof is due.
(June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 42; P.A. 11-62, S. 2.)
History: June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 effective August 20, 2003, and applicable to assessment years commencing on or
after October 1, 2002; P.A. 11-62 replaced "against Iraq" with "in Iraq or Afghanistan" and replaced "in the Middle East"
with "outside the United States", effective October 1, 2011, and applicable to assessment years commencing on or after
that date.
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Sec. 12-146e. Payments by residents in the armed forces called to active service
who are serving outside the state. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 12-146,
a municipality may, upon approval by its legislative body or, in any town in which the
legislative body is a town meeting, by the board of selectmen of such municipality, elect
to not charge or collect interest for a period of one year on any property tax or any
installment or part thereof that is payable by any resident of the state who (1) is a member
of the armed forces of the United States or of any state or of any reserve component
thereof, (2) has been called to active service in the armed forces of the United States,
and (3) is serving outside the state on the final day that payment of such property tax
or installment or part thereof is due.
(P.A. 11-62, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 11-62 effective October 1, 2011, and applicable to assessment years commencing on or after that date.
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