Formal Opinions

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• Honorable F. Philip Prelli, Commissioner, Department of Agriculture, Formal Opinion 2009-001, Attorney General State of Connecticut

  Your department requested my opinion on whether an individual or business that sells animals at an exposition event or other temporary location

• Jeanne Milstein, Child Advocate, Office of the Child Advocate, Formal Opinion 2009-003, Attorney General State of Connecticut

  You have requested an opinion concerning the operation of the Family Support Council (the “Council”). Specifically, you have asked whether the Council’s enabling statute, Conn. Gen. Stat. § 17a-219c, prohibits you from delegating your voting authority to a member of your staff

• Honorable Donald E. Williams, Jr., Senate President Pro Tempore, Honorable Martin M. Looney, Senate Majority Leader, Connecticut State Senate, Formal Opinion 2009-005, Attorney General State of Connecticut

  You have requested a formal legal opinion regarding the allocation of costs associated with resident state troopers detailed, pursuant to Conn. Gen. Stat. § 29-5, to towns lacking an organized police force

• Herbert J. Shepardson, Esq., Chairperson, State Marshal Commission, Formal Opinion 2009-009, Attorney General State of Connecticut

  You have asked our opinion on several questions concerning State Marshals

• Herbert J. Shepardson, Chair, State Marshal Commission, Formal Opinion 2009-010, Attorney General State of Connecticut

  You have requested my opinion on whether municipalities may, by town ordinance, dictate the terms under which they will pay for State Marshal work

• The Honorable Richard Nicholson, Commissioner of Revenue Services, Formal Opinion 2010-002, Attorney General State of Connecticut

  Your Department has asked for advice on whether employees of the Department of Revenue Services (DRS) who volunteer to serve on the DRS Emergency Response Team (ERT) would be liable for civil damages

• Hon. Donald E. Williams, Jr., Senate President Pro Tempore, Hon. Martin M. Looney, Senate Majority Leader, Formal Opinion 2010-004, Attorney General State of Connecticut

• Honorable Kevin P. Johnston, Honorable Robert G. Jaekle, Auditors of Public Accounts, Formal Opinion 2009-002, Attorney General State of Connecticut

  You have asked for our opinion whether the State Employees Retirement Commission may use retirement fund assets for the purpose of paying overtime to employees

• The Honorable Susan Bysiewicz, Secretary of the State, Formal Opinion 2010-001, Attorney General State of Connecticut

  This letter responds to your request for a formal legal opinion concerning the constitutionality and interpretation of Conn. Gen. Stat. § 3-124. Section 3-124 sets forth the qualifications for the Office of Attorney General

• Edward S. Greenberg, Chairman State Properties Review Board, Formal Opinion 2010-006, Attorney General State of Connecticut

• Werner Oyanadel, Acting Executive Director, Latino and Puerto Rican Affairs Commission, Formal Opinion 2010-005, Attorney General, State of Connecticut

  This letter responds to your request for a formal legal opinion concerning the authority of the Latino and Puerto Rican Affairs Commission (the “Commission”) to hold its 13th annual event

• Hon. Donald E. Williams, Jr., Hon. Martin M. Looney, Hon. Christopher G. Donovan, Hon. Denise Merrill Formal Opinion 2010-003, Attorney General State of Connecticut

  This letter responds to your request for a formal opinion regarding the decision by Mark McQuillian, Commissioner of Education ("Commissioner") and the State Board of Education ("State Board") to suspend the operation of J.M. Wright Technical High School

• Honorable Kevin Sullivan, Legislative Office Building, 2002-013 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  You have asked for an evaluation of the constitutionality of the Governor's Executive Order No. 26, issued April 12, 2002 ("Executive Order"), with respect to large-scale gas and electric transmission facilities.

• Honorable Amalia Vazquez Bzdyra, Chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities, 2002-020 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  This is in response to the letter drafted on your behalf by Commission Counsel Murphy dated May 24, 2002, as amended and supplemented by the letter dated June 14, 2002, in which you request our opinion as to the validity of two recent appointments to vacancies on the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities (hereinafter CHRO).

• Ms. Carol Carson, Executive Director, Office of State Ethics, Formal Opinion 2009-006, Attorney General State of Connecticut

  The Bridgeport Roman Catholic Diocesan Corporation (“the Church”) has filed a federal lawsuit against officials of the Office of State Ethics (“OSE”) seeking court orders preventing the OSE from seeking to enforce against the Church certain state laws governing lobbyists