Sec. 4-142b. Staff. Office. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 4-142b. Staff. Office. The Claims Commissioner shall appoint and may at his pleasure remove a clerk of the Office of the Claims Commissioner and may employ such assistants as he finds necessary to administer the provisions of this chapter. The clerk of the Office of the Claims Commissioner and such assistants shall be in the unclassified service and shall receive such compensation as is fixed under the provisions of section 4-40. The Claims Commissioner shall maintain a permanent office in Hartford County in such suitable space as the Commissioner of Public Works provides. All papers required to be filed with the Claims Commissioner shall be delivered to such office.

      (P.A. 75-605, S. 3, 27; P.A. 77-614, S. 73, 610; P.A. 82-167, S. 2, 7; P.A. 84-346, S. 2, 4; P.A. 87-496, S. 42, 110.)

      History: P.A. 77-614 substituted commissioner of administrative services for public works commissioner; P.A. 82-167 changed required location of office from Hartford to Hartford county; P.A. 84-346 provided that the positions of clerk and assistant shall be in the unclassified service with compensation fixed pursuant to Sec. 4-40, rather than by the legislative management committee and deleted provision authorizing committee to approve appointment by the claims commissioner of such assistants; P.A. 87-496 replaced administrative services commissioner with public works commissioner.

      Cited. 186 C. 300. Public act 82-167, section 2 of which amended this section, "should be read as a clarification of the superior court's ongoing lack of jurisdiction to hear appeals from the claims commissioner". 195 C. 534.