Sec. 4-172. Certified copies of regulations filed with Secretary of the State. Effective date. Publication. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 4-172. Certified copies of regulations filed with Secretary of the State. Effective date. Publication. (a) After approval of a regulation as required by sections 4-169 and 4-170, or after reversal of a decision of the standing committee by the General Assembly pursuant to section 4-171, each agency shall file in the office of the Secretary of the State two certified copies of such regulation. Each regulation when filed shall be in the form intended for publication, and each section of the regulation shall include the appropriate regulation section number and a section heading. The Secretary of the State shall keep a permanent register of the regulations open to public inspection.

      (b) Each regulation hereafter adopted is effective upon filing, except that: (1) If a later date is required by statute or specified in the regulation, the later date is the effective date; (2) a regulation may not be effective before the effective date of the public act requiring or permitting the regulation; and (3) subject to applicable constitutional or statutory provisions, an emergency regulation becomes effective immediately upon filing with the Secretary of the State, or at a stated date less than twenty days thereafter, if the agency finds that this effective date is necessary because of imminent peril to the public health, safety, or welfare. The agency's finding and a brief statement of the reasons therefor shall be filed with the regulation. The agency shall take appropriate measures to make emergency regulations known to the persons who may be affected by them.

      (c) The Secretary of the State, upon receipt of the certified copies of each regulation as provided in subsection (a) of this section, shall include the effective date of the particular regulation on one copy thereof, and forward the copy to the Commission on Official Legal Publications which shall publish the regulation in accordance with the provisions of section 4-173.

      (1971, P.A. 854, S. 7; P.A. 88-317, S. 7, 107.)

      History: P.A. 88-317 added new Subsec. (b)(2), providing that a regulation may not be effective before effective date of act requiring or permitting the regulation, and made technical changes, effective July 1, 1989, and applicable to agency proceedings commencing on or after that date.

      Cited. 165 C. 448. Cited. 171 C. 691. Cited. 172 C. 263. Cited. 173 C. 462. Cited. 177 C. 356. Cited. 183 C. 313. Cited. 186 C. 153. Cited. 187 C. 458. Cited. 191 C. 173; Id., 384. Cited. 239 C. 32.

      Cited. 1 CA 1.

      Cited. 34 CS 225.