Conn. Gen. Stat. § 12-130
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Sec. 12-130. Collectors; rate bills and warrants. Statements of state aid.
Official statutory text
(A) 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”; and
(B) State aid reduction to municipalities that overspend, which shall be in the following form:
“The state will reduce grants to your town if local spending increases by more than 2.5 per cent from the previous fiscal year.”
Failure to send out or receive 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 (i) receives such bill or statement, and (ii) 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) of this section 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.
See Sec. 9-185 re election or appointment of tax collectors.
Selectmen liable for making out rate bill on illegal and void assessment and causing warrant to be issued thereon. 7 C. 550, see also 47 C. 485. When action for money had and received is appropriate remedy. 10 C. 127. Warrant unaccompanied by a duly signed rate bill a dead letter. Id., 147; 30 C. 395. Justice signing a warrant based on rate bill valid on its face not liable though tax illegally imposed. 11 C. 472. Rate bill and warrant need not specify list on which tax laid if appearing in the vote to which they refer. 15 C. 454. Tax legally laid and assessed but collected by invalid proceedings not recoverable of town. 30 C. 394. Land sold on void tax warrant based on valid assessment not decreed to be reconveyed without indemnifying purchaser. Id., 404. Owner of bank stock sold for illegal tax, who buys the same knowing the facts, cannot recover of the town. 32 C. 546.
Cited. 26 CA 545.
“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”; and
(B) State aid reduction to municipalities that overspend, which shall be in the following form:
“The state will reduce grants to your town if local spending increases by more than 2.5 per cent from the previous fiscal year.”
Failure to send out or receive 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 (i) receives such bill or statement, and (ii) 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) of this section 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.
See Sec. 9-185 re election or appointment of tax collectors.
Selectmen liable for making out rate bill on illegal and void assessment and causing warrant to be issued thereon. 7 C. 550, see also 47 C. 485. When action for money had and received is appropriate remedy. 10 C. 127. Warrant unaccompanied by a duly signed rate bill a dead letter. Id., 147; 30 C. 395. Justice signing a warrant based on rate bill valid on its face not liable though tax illegally imposed. 11 C. 472. Rate bill and warrant need not specify list on which tax laid if appearing in the vote to which they refer. 15 C. 454. Tax legally laid and assessed but collected by invalid proceedings not recoverable of town. 30 C. 394. Land sold on void tax warrant based on valid assessment not decreed to be reconveyed without indemnifying purchaser. Id., 404. Owner of bank stock sold for illegal tax, who buys the same knowing the facts, cannot recover of the town. 32 C. 546.
Cited. 26 CA 545.
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