Any appointive officer or employee or appointive member of a
board or commission may, except as otherwise provided in this Charter,
be removed by the authority which appointed him, provided he shall
first be given notice in writing of the specific grounds of his removal
and an opportunity to be heard in his own defense, personally or by
counsel, at a public or private hearing before the Council. Said hearing
will be held not less than five (5) nor more than twenty (20) days
after such notice. Pending such hearing, he may be suspended by the
appointing authority. The Council, after such hearing, shall affirm,
reverse or modify the action of the appointing authority, except that
the Council may not reverse or modify the action of the Manager with
reference to removals under Section 403. Compensation, if any, shall
be continued during the period of suspension or thirty (30) days from
the date of suspension, whichever is longer. There shall be no appeal
from the decision of the Council. The Council, after such hearing,
shall affirm, reverse or modify the action of the appointing authority.
Any employee of the Board of Education may be removed by the
authority which appointed him, provided he shall first be given notice
in writing of the specific grounds of his removal and an opportunity
to be heard in his own defense, personally or by counsel, at a public
hearing before the Board of Education. Said hearing will be held not
less than five (5) nor more than twenty (20) days after such notice.
Pending such hearing, he may be suspended by the appointing authority.
The Town Board of Education, after such hearing, shall affirm, reverse
or modify the action of the appointing authority.
(11-3-1970)
(Repealed 11-8-1994)
The Town Clerk shall, upon filing of any petition for (nomination
or) election, proceed forthwith to determine its sufficiency by comparing
the name of the candidate and the signatures thereon with the latest
official lists of the Registrars of Voters with petitions already
filed for the same office. If the Town Clerk finds the petition insufficient,
he shall notify the candidate in writing forthwith, and no further
proceedings shall be had thereon except in accordance with an order
of a judge of the Superior Court of Hartford County to whom an appeal
may be taken from the decision of the Town Clerk, providing nothing
in this section shall be construed as preventing, in the case of petitions
found to be insufficient, the obtaining of additional valid signatures
and the refiling of the petition for nomination within the time limits
prescribed for the presentation of the original petition. Any such
petition shall be recorded as of the time it is refiled.
