Sec. 9-51. Enrollment sessions.

The registrars shall make changes and corrections in the list of enrolled electors at any time. On the fourteenth day before each primary, the registrars of voters in each town shall hold a mandatory enrollment session for the purpose of making an enrollment of the electors who are entitled to vote in primaries. All enrollment sessions of the registrars of voters shall be held in a public place maintained by the municipality at such hours between twelve o’clock noon and nine o’clock p.m. as said registrars prescribe, provided each such session shall be held for not less than two consecutive hours and provided, in any municipality divided into voting districts in which an enrollment session is held in each such district, the hours of such session in each of the districts shall be uniform. This section shall apply in each municipality, the provisions of any special act to the contrary notwithstanding.

(1949 Rev., S. 1171; 1953, 1955, S. 553d; 1957, P.A. 442, S. 1; 1963, P.A. 50; 266; 1971, P.A. 685, S. 1; P.A. 75-206, S. 1, 7; 75-269, S. 2; P.A. 77-298, S. 2; P.A. 83-475, S. 9, 43; P.A. 87-382, S. 6, 55; P.A. 96-134, S. 3, 9.)

History: 1963 acts provided for preparation of enrollment lists in municipalities holding nonpartisan elections in even-numbered years and by agreement of all registrars in odd-numbered years and required that enrollment sessions be held in a public place maintained by the municipality; 1971 act added provision that registrars may make changes and corrections in the list at any time in addition to sessions except during period of 5 days before a primary, caucus or convention and further, deleted provision requiring municipality in which municipal election not held in odd-numbered year to hold session on second Friday in June of each odd-numbered year; P.A. 75-206 changed from fourteenth to the sixteenth week before election the mandatory enrollment session in municipality in which municipal election is held in odd-numbered year; P.A. 75-269 provided for a mandatory enrollment session on the third Saturday before each primary; P.A. 77-298 eliminated enrollment sessions in January and June in even-numbered years and provided for changes and corrections to be made in list of enrolled electors at any time except during period of fourteen, in lieu of five days before a primary, caucus or convention, further deleted provision for a mandatory enrollment session on the Friday of the sixteenth week before election held in an odd-numbered year, provided for a mandatory enrollment session on the fourteenth day before each primary and deleted provision for preparation of enrollment lists in municipalities holding nonpartisan elections; P.A. 83-475 deleted prohibition against making changes and corrections in enrollment list during 14-day period prior to primary, caucus or convention; P.A. 87-382 changed date for one of mandatory enrollment sessions from third Saturday before primary to seventeenth day before primary; P.A. 96-134 deleted reference to mandatory enrollment session on seventeenth day before primary and replaced “three” with “two” consecutive hours, effective May 29, 1996.

Notation

See Sec. 9-372 for applicable definitions.

Cited. 144 C. 1.