Notwithstanding the provisions of section 7-1 , any town may adopt an ordinance, in the manner provided by section 7-157 , requiring that a special town meeting be warned by the selectmen on application of at least fifty inhabitants qualified to vote at town meetings, such meeting to be held within twenty-one days after such application is received by the selectmen; provided nothing in this section shall be construed to affect any ordinance legally adopted prior to October 1, 1957.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 7-2
Ordinance concerning convening of special town meetings
Applied in 29 court decisions — leading case State v. Carpenter (2005)
Most recently applied in State v. Lazaro C.-D. (December 2025)
(1953, S. 206d; 1957, P.A. 226, S. 2.)
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