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Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies (Last Updated: June 14,2023) |
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Title7 Municipalities |
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SubTitle7-453-1_7-453-11. Participation by Municipalities in Social Security |
| Sec. 7-453-1. Filing of application form. Request for referendum |
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An application form for participation by a municipality in the Old-Age, Survivors, Disability, and Health Insurance System under title II of the social security act, as amended, and in accordance with sections 7-452 to 7-459, inclusive, of the general statutes, as amended, shall be filed with the state retirement commission in duplicate and certified to by the town clerk or other official under duty to keep records of meetings. In those cases where a referendum is required the legislative body of the municipality, in addition to making the foregoing application to the commission, shall request the governor to authorize a referendum. Upon such authorization, the commission shall set the date of the referendum and shall send notice to each eligible member ninety days before such date, accompanied by literature to inform the employee of the rights which will accrue to him and his dependents and survivors, and the liabilities to which he will be subject, if his services are covered under social security. The commission shall supervise the referendum. |
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(Effective August 26, 1969) |
| Sec. 7-453-2. Execution of agreement between commission and municipality |
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The agreement between the commission and the municipality describing all conditions to be fulfilled to meet the applicable requirements of the social security act will be executed after the municipality has voted to apply and participate under the system and the application has been duly approved by the commission. |
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(Effective August 26, 1969) |
| Sec. 7-453-3. Identification number for municipality |
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An identification number for the municipality to be used on all reports to the commission will be assigned by the secretary of health, education and welfare to the commission and furnished to the municipality. |
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(Effective August 26, 1969) |
| Sec. 7-453-4. Deductions from wages |
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The legislative body of the municipality shall direct the treasurer or other financial officer of the municipality to make deductions from the wages of its employees each pay period at the rates of tax contained in the federal insurance contributions act. |
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(Effective August 26, 1969) |
| Sec. 7-453-5. Wage reports |
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The state will furnish forms OAR-S3 to each municipality so that it can report the wages paid to its employees, at the end of each calendar quarter, in triplicate. The original and duplicate copy of each quarterly wage report, together with contributions due, must reach the State Retirement Commission, 30 Trinity St., Hartford, Connecticut, not later than the fifteenth day of the month following the end of the calendar quarter. The third copy of form OAR-S3 shall be retained by the municipality for its record. |
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| Sec. 7-453-6. Report and remittance of contributions |
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The municipality shall report and forward to the commission, on forms furnished by the state, on or before the fifteenth day of the month next following the end of each calendar quarter, the amounts deducted from the wages of its employees whose services are covered under the system, together with an equal amount representing the contributions of the municipality for each such employee. |
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(Effective August 26, 1969) |
| Sec. 7-453-7. Administrative costs |
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The municipality shall pay to the commission, on or before the fifteenth day of the month next following the end of the calendar quarter, its share of the cost to the state for administering the provisions of sections 7-452 to 7-459, inclusive, of the general statutes, as amended, during such quarter, which cost shall be apportioned quarterly by the commission in the ratio which each municipality's quarterly total payment to the system bears to the total payments of all municipalities made in the same quarter and each municipality shall include in its annual budget a sum sufficient to meet the amount due as its contribution to the fund. |
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| Sec. 7-453-8. Failure of municipality to make contributions |
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If the municipality fails to make and file any of the contribution returns required by these regulations within the prescribed time, interest shall accrue at the rate of six per cent per annum. |
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(Effective August 26, 1969) |
| Sec. 7-453-9. Adjustments of recoveries from federal government |
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The state will adjust with the municipality any amount which may be recovered from the federal government by virtue of payments made under the federal and state agreement which shall be equitably refunded by the state to the contributors as the commission shall direct. |
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(Effective August 26, 1969) |
| Sec. 7-453-10. Termination of municipal participation |
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Any municipality desiring to terminate its participation in the Old-Age, Survivors, Disability, and Health Insurance System may, by vote of its legislative body, make application therefor to the commission. Such application for termination shall be made at least thirty months prior to the intended termination date and, upon its approval by the commission, the municipality shall terminate its participation in the plan in accordance with the terms of such approved application at the end of the calendar quarter specified therein. This plan may be terminated in its entirety or with respect to any coverage group only if it has been in effect from the effective date specified herein for not less than fifty-four months prior to receipt by the commission of an application to terminate with respect to any group for which termination is sought. |
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| Sec. 7-453-11. Termination bars municipality from future participation |
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If an agreement is terminated under the provisions of these regulations, the municipality is thereafter barred from participation in the Old-Age, Survivors, Disability, and Health Insurance System with respect to classes of employees covered in the terminated agreement. |
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| Sec. 7-453-12. Audit of records |
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All records relating to the participation of the municipality in the Old-Age, Survivors, Disability, and Health Insurance System shall be subject to audit by the commission. |
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(Effective August 26, 1969) |