Sec. 7-99a. Appointment of departmental coordinators or deputy city or town managers and assistants. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 7-99a. Appointment of departmental coordinators or deputy city or town managers and assistants. Any special act to the contrary notwithstanding, the legislative body of any town having a city or town manager as its chief executive officer, may, by ordinance, permit the chief executive officer to appoint (1) not more than six departmental coordinators to coordinate work of department heads and (2) a deputy city or town manager and assistants to such deputy. A departmental coordinator may be designated as a deputy city or town manager or as an assistant to such deputy. Any coordinator, deputy city or town manager or assistant to such deputy shall serve at the pleasure of the chief executive officer.

      (P.A. 74-234; P.A. 91-370.)

      History: P.A. 91-370 deleted provision limiting applicability to towns of 50,000 or more population, designated existing appointment authority as Subdiv. (1) and added new Subdiv. (2) concerning appointment by city or town manager of a deputy city or town manager and assistants and added language re designation of departmental director as deputy and re terms.