Sec. 7-130c. Commission to exercise powers of authority. Transfer of authority to municipal department and vice versa.

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the powers of the authority shall be exercised by a commission which shall consist of not less than five nor more than nine members who shall be appointed by the legislative bodies of the participating municipalities and who shall be selected in the manner and for the terms provided by the ordinance creating the authority. The members of the commission shall elect one of their number chairman and shall elect a secretary and treasurer who need not be members of the commission. The offices of secretary and treasurer may be combined. A majority of the members of the commission shall constitute a quorum and the vote of a majority of such members shall be necessary for any action taken by the authority. No vacancy in the membership of the commission shall impair the right of a quorum to exercise all the rights and perform all the duties of the authority. The members of the commission shall be reimbursed for the amount of actual expenses incurred by them in the performance of their duties. The legislative bodies of the participating municipalities may provide for compensation of the members of the commission.

(b) All the foregoing provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall not, however, apply in the event such authority is or becomes a municipal departmental unit as provided in section 7-130b, in which case the powers of the authority shall be exercised by said department in the usual and normal manner in which it functions as such a departmental unit of the municipality under the rules and regulations of said department and the ordinances and the charter of said municipality.

(c) If an authority constituted as a municipal departmental unit in any municipality as provided in section 7-130b, is replaced by an authority operating through a commission, the ordinance establishing such succeeding authority may provide that the employees of such succeeding authority shall be deemed to be employees of such municipality for all purposes, and such municipality shall be deemed to be the employer for purposes of section 7-467; provided that such ordinance may provide that some or all of such employees of such succeeding authority shall not be subject to the classified civil service requirements of such municipality.

(February, 1965, P.A. 460, S. 3; 1967, P.A. 810, S. 3; P.A. 78-376, S. 1, 6.)

History: 1967 act added Subsec. (b) excepting authorities which are departments from provisions of Subsec. (a); P.A. 78-376 added Subsec. (c) re switch from department authority to commission authority.